Sentences with phrase «for making sense of the world»

«There's a crucial need for making sense of the world's information and Agolo is filling that void.

Rather, the task is to find the necessary principles for making sense of the world, while at the same time it is clear that any principles which properly can be said to make sense of things will be those which are not in stark contradiction of all that realm of which, in fact, sense is being made.

Since the dawn of human communication, storytelling has served as mankind's tool of choice for making sense of the world around them.

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Another good example is Johnson & Johnson, a global organization with employees all over the world, who realized that they needed culturally relevant and appropriate content for distance learning and training that would make sense to each specific region of the world in which they do business in order for their employees to truly feel connected.

«People are frantically searching for something to help them make sense of the world today.

These motion - tracking sensors will give a person «a stronger sense of being transported» to a virtual environment because they will presumably make it easier for people to move around and look at things in digital worlds like they do in real life.

But somewhere in the heat of battle, when there seemed little to lose, when doing whatever it took felt more heroic than sticking to your guns, for one unfortunate moment at the 11th hour, it made all the sense in the world to ask, «Is this a prime minister?»

With such a mass of information, the only way for humans to make any sense of the world is to make some approximations and assumptions, to look for the patterns, and try to find the constellations in the mess of stars.

He also concludes that «raising its (the government's) deficit target back up to 1 per cent (from zero) makes more sense when there are other short - term - pain - for - long - term - gain initiatives that are needed to address more pressing objectives than lowering a debt ratio that is already the envy of the world.»

Google has been working for years on teaching machines to understand language, make sense of images and videos, and navigate real - world environments.

So, if appointing women to top tiers of leadership makes sense for shareholders and the rest of the world's stakeholders, what is the hold - up?

«Matching Asian people in North America is still our main product, but 60 percent of the world's population is in Asia so in order for us to become a much bigger company and help more people find their life partner, it makes sense to enter Asia,» Tokioka explained to TechCrunch.

Resulting in a chaotic world for sellers and buyers looking to make sense of what the future may hold.

As we work with banks around the world to connect with each other for cross-border transactions, part of that work is helping them craft rule sets that make sense in...

I think for us, the reason that we ultimately chose to make that decision is that we live in a very sceptical and cynical world, and we function and live in a culture and in a time when people are wary of leaders, pastors and organisations; that there's a sense of duplicity or lack of transparency.

I shall also use the word «play» in a wide sense, to stand for an activity that, because it is not directed to the satisfaction of wants, entails an attitude to the world that is not concerned to use it, to get something out of it, or to make something of it, and offers satisfactions that are not at the same time frustrations.

kendallpeak Your att.itude only made sense in a male - dominated world where women couldn't much hope for a life outside of producing children and keeping house.

The rightly ordered joy of our senses in this world — the scent of spring, warm rain in the summer, the music of Mozart or Beethoven, the face of a beloved — is a foretaste of the glory God made for all of us to share, when we one day stand in his presence.

Many of her quotes and statements don't make much sense to me, for instance from this article: «I used to think that if the world — or I — were coming to an end, I'd start smoking again,»

First and foremost we need a faith that works for us here and now, that helps me make sense of the world and life and the people around me.

I try to make sense of the world as I see it, and as it is presented to me, and try to account for as many of the variables as I can.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

Such a split makes no sense in our world: spirit and body or matter are on a continuum, for matter is not inanimate substance but throbs of energy, essentially in continuity with spirit.

While I'm more of an atheist than anything else and respect Mr. Hawking's vast knowledge of the sciences and believe he's probably correct in his assertions I also believe that NO ONE really knows what's in store for us after death... most likely nothing at all since that's what makes sense to me, but all the brains in our world put together don't really know for sure.

It makes all the logical sense in the world that Time, Inc., had to put the movement on its cover and co-opt it, for Time's investment in the «In God we trust» capitalism and institutions of our political - economic - mythical lives is not inconsiderable.

Contrariwise, divine relativity can make sense of omnipresence, especially when seen in terms of Hartshorne's understanding of the world being the body of God: «For God there is no external environment, the divine body just is the spatial whole; moreover, this body is vividly and distinctly perceived» (OOTM 94).

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

Does it make sense for the church to own billions upon billions of dollars worth of property when those same dollars could provide vaccinations and clean water for every person in the world with money left over?

With a sense of joy at the end of the old and the birth of the new, the Taiwanese theologian, C. S. Song, said in 1975 that we celebrate the end of foreign missions and the growing confidence of the church in the Third World which makes demands for «entirely new relations with the church in the West»:

In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.

And third, we give thanks not in order that God will know that we are thankful but precisely in order to make ourselves thankful: to help ourselves realize not only how lucky we are in comparison to so many others (which is part of it), but how fortunate we are just to be in this world; to help us appreciate the many blessings which each and every one of us enjoys; to rekindle in us the sense of wonder and awe and gratitude in response to all that we so often and so cavalierly take for granted.

«I write for myself because I've loved the craft since I was a kid, because it's how I process the world and make sense of things, and because I kinda suck at everything else so my professional options are limited.

But because the Church successfully evolved, because believers were willing change their minds about the structure of the universe in order for their faith to makes sense in a modern world, what was once considered heretical is now embraced as scientific fact.

But as this unmaking of religion reveals that religion is «true», in the sense that it is an invention of human beings to compensate for and to sublimate their real wretchedness, a second kind of criticism has to follow: religion has to be made false, i.e., the secular world has to be changed.

Perhaps the greatest difficulty for the prophetic church will be the evolution of a metaphysic and a theology that «make sense» within the context of the modern world.

I could go on, but the fact of the matter is, if you use just the bible to map out a timeline it's a little wonky but doable because for over 2000 years its had revisions and edits so that it would make more sense, if you want to really look the history of the world through geology, ice core samples and what not, it'll paint a very different picture.

As such, this «representation» of the good principle does not have for its effect «to extend our knowledge beyond the world of sense but only to make clear for practical use the conception of what is for us unfathomable» (p. 52).

It is possible that in a fallen world (and yes, this is the theological premise without which one can not really make sense of this stuff) where struggle for land involves war, and the only kind of war at the time was the kind described in the Old Testament texts, that this was the way it had to be if the land - gift promise was to be fulfilled in due course.

These include the respect in which they are held in the community, the genuine appreciation they receive for work well done, the privilege of being invited to be with persons in their brightest and darkest hours, the satisfaction of communicating ideas that are important, the security of being surrounded by people who have affection for them, and the deep sense of well - being that comes from self - investment in significant work which helps lighten the load of humanity and makes for a better world.

It makes no sense to forget about the World Trade Center that proudly stood there and instead make that whole part of NYC including City Hall and Wall Street a symbol for America's insularity and fear of others who are different.

Like Maclntyre, he is an indispensable companion for Christians who would make sense of the world in which we live, and he has deeply influenced my own work.

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Just as it would make no sense to preach to an American congregation in Greek, it would be counterproductive to force on American Christians all the cognitive and normative assumptions of the Hellenistic world that even Paul took for granted.

For a Christian, the event of Christ is important, m that sense, as providing a clue to «the nature of God and his agency in the world»; the decision made for or against that clue is important, since it is determinative of whether or not life will be lived — that is, man will move towards becoming himself — in terms of the love which is there both manifested and releasFor a Christian, the event of Christ is important, m that sense, as providing a clue to «the nature of God and his agency in the world»; the decision made for or against that clue is important, since it is determinative of whether or not life will be lived — that is, man will move towards becoming himself — in terms of the love which is there both manifested and releasfor or against that clue is important, since it is determinative of whether or not life will be lived — that is, man will move towards becoming himself — in terms of the love which is there both manifested and released.

Is it enough for theologians to say that biblical truth is the capacity of the text to draw readers into a new framework of meaning that makes sense of one's life and world?

The reasons for the lack of diversity in leadership are complex, but Henry says that proactively encouraging it can only be a positive thing: «The experience of the secular world confirms that diversity around the board table adds great value and makes sense.

The context for the entire treatment will be a consistent and coherent worldview that in my belief is appropriate to the Christian tradition of faith, worship, and life and that at the same time can make sense to men and women today in their desire for a meaningful interpretation of their existence, of the world in which that existence is found, and of the divine reality we call God.

Nor was escape possible by making them mere thoughts in mind, since this would sacrifice the reality of the objects thought, an objective reality not to be accounted for by the ever - changing sense world.

Some Atheist angles may be content to allow the rest of the world believe whatever it wants, but so long as those beliefs are hoisted upon others as a burden to bear, used to judge and separate people who are unlike others, and make absolutely no sense whatsoever... I personally will always crusade for the destruction of this plague.

Yet, given the logical problems connected with the notion of a finite actual entity somehow prehending the objective integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God (as indicated above), it makes sense to think of God's influence on the concrescing actual occasion simply in terms of divine feelings vis - à - vis objective possibilities already present in the world as a common field of activity for God and all finite actual occasions.