Sentences with phrase «how ancient it is»

If a top, dress, skirt, cigarette pant, sweatshirt, you name it has sequins, no matter how ancient it is, I just can't bring myself to part with it.

«What's intriguing to me about our obsession with celebrity is how ancient it is,» Flood says.

Not exact matches

Turning cities into sponges: how Chinese ancient wisdom is taking on climate change The Guardian

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Their power comes from how they are the closest digital equivalent to ancient Chinese tradition,» Chance Jiang, CEO Chatek and Director of Startup Grind Guangzhou told TechNode.

It's a pity Wildrose MLA Derek Fildebrandt hadn't read Jane Jacobs» Dark Age Ahead before he launched into his description of how the ancient Romans dealt with governments that were, in his words, «beyond redemption».

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 200are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 200Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

(RM) A lesson in taking seriously theological perspectives that have stood the test of time, and in thinking about how these ancient truths can be made relevant to folks who hang around places like Las Vegas.

It's funny how most all those books were written by men in different time periods, and yet there stories all go back and match those of the ancient Egyptians.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Easter co-ming from ancient pagan fertility rituals as stated, not sure how that's fit's into the ancient Passover Seder meal of the Jews...?

How about the most accurate ancient text that has never been proven wrong by any archeological finding.

Sort of like how ancient greeks would be mystified by an Iphone.

You fail to see just how ridiculous it is to hold on so tightly to the bible and the belief in god and the bible and yet your easy dismissal of ancient greek paganism, or roman paganism, or scandinavian.

Then I was wondering how it can be explained that ancient Egyptian text supports Joseph's time as the leader under Pharaoh or pictures have been taken of chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea or even how recently the location of Sodom has been found.

It wasn't just how the early Christians died that inspired so many people in the ancient world; it was how they lived.

The ancient practice of liturgy has helped us see how God is remaking us into a people who can become the answer to the prayers the Spirit is praying through us.

Also Richard Elliott Friedmann PhD «Who Wrote the Bible», and «How the Bible Became a Book... the Textualization of Ancient Israel» by William Schniedewind PhD are great books by real scholars.

To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.

At this point, one could go into detail into what the ancient mystics poetically termed «The Dark Night of the Soul» or how God's silence is a divine strategy to draw us closer to Him.

How many bones of ancient humans and our ancestors do they have to dig up to «prove» that the world was not created 6,000 years ago?

«The Ancients, whose history is lost to us, were greater than us» — how far back are you going?

Therefore a reasonable person rightly grasp that Zeus was just a figment of the ancient Greeks imagination, a way to salve their conscience as to how they perceived the «world» came into existence.

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Saying that Jesus came to save us * from * religion might make for Tweetable theology but it is not an accurate representation of what the word means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern worlds, and how the New Testament presents it.

my questions were rhetorical and meant to illustrate how absurd ancient thinking is.

Gambling your soul away on a guess based on ancient texts out of fear of torture doesn't sound logical at all, especially considering how many other versions of the scriptures have been found and conflict with today's bible.

Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...

This is how the ancient prophets spoke about the Messiah — their eldest brother Jesus.

The «Ancient Aliens» series did a program on how Satan was actually the good guy trying to help mankind by providing knowledge aka the talking serpent tempting Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

This is how Orthodox believers view their dynamic continuity with the ancient church and scripture.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

Editor's Note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life» (Scribner, 2010).

The first chapter gives a brief overview of the history of psychiatry, beginning in ancient Greece, describing how mental illness has been regarded and treated through the ages; along the way, it debunks the myth that the early Church saw all mental illness as diabolic.

That was apparently how the ancient Hebrews took solemn oaths because of the blessedness of the «seed» which God had promised to multiply to Abraham and his descendants.

Now, I'm sure some might play with semantics here, and I don't know ancient Greek, but I find it hard to see how this view is «listening to the Prophets.»

These tablets where carved before the bible was even written and it goes to show how the bible is a replica of what is said on the ancient tablets, but some things are kept out because at the time is was unthinkable technology which then posed as a possible lie, but the technology has come to pass so it proves a lot.

A former youth minister, she's passionate about monasticism and ancient Christian spiritual practices and how they inform the contemporary life of faith.

I believe the bible story attempts to describe, in its ancient mythological way, how the spiritual is totally enmeshed in the material.

She shows how the covenantal invention of identity can be violent, in both ancient Israel and modern states.

(Imagine how confusing messages about gravity waves and dark matter might be to ancient Hebrew readers.)

Actually, that is how the ancient Hebrews thought the «universe» was structured and it would have made more sense for their God to make something so economical rather than a super vast, almost completely empty expanse with us just a tiny island.

John Barton shows how the prophets used persuasive techniques that are found in ancient Near Eastern literature.

«Imagine how confusing messages about gravity waves and dark matter might be to ancient Hebrew readers.»

After nearly a century of form criticism, all students of the Bible are aware how much the ancient social situation affected the meaning of the literature that grew up in its midst.

''... Atheists who also wrote about how there was a list of all the egyptian rulers from the ancient times and no mention of Jacob who the Bible said co ruled with Pharaoh during the time of great famine.

So we fight back with logic and ask them to prove their beliefs with something substantiative that can be tested without a doubt and not some ancient texts written by MEN (no matter how many times they claim it's «HIS» word).