Not exact matches
No... essentially, God is the collective wild
imagination of a bunch of scientifically ignorant
humans who lived thousands of years ago and had absolutely no understanding of the world around them, so the only way they could possibly accept the way things were was to invent something that controlled any natural mechanism they didn't understand.
I don't have to use my
imagination to know that we have endless evidence showing the evolution of many types of species, including
humans.
Of course you didn't, or
did you?!! Social Justice Jesus and Catholic Jesus share something in common: they are figments of
human imagination.
But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the
imagination, may weaken the objective rationality needed to
do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to
do science «goes against the grain of traditional
human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).
I mean, I know the Freudian superstition has been largely discredited since those heady days — his results were falsified, his psychotherapeutic sorcery doesn't work, and so on — but that doesn't alter the extraordinary hold his model of
human motives still has over people's
imaginations, or the bibulous excitement his ideas once inspired.
And the universe that I
did not create is much greater than
human's
imagination.
A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and
does so by virtue of that power of
imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through
human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.
Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit — a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust in the insight,
imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of ordinary
human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they
do not and can not possess.
Moreover, objectivity
does not rule thought;
human imagination, valuation and social location govern how we identify and classify things — and thus, how we construct contexts for comparison.
And that hypothesis would be that at least one god actually
does exist, and was not the complete product of the
human imagination, right?
Although he
does not put it this way, and would likely object to my putting it so bluntly, Greeley's contention is that «the Catholic
imagination» enables Catholics to be more
human, or at least to give freer and fuller expression to their humanity.
The exceptional powers of sympathetic
imagination and of literary expression possessed by this evangelist make his work the most effective of all as a
human and, so to speak, secular approach to the «Jesus of History,» but it
does not lie on the main classical line of development from the apostolic Preaching.
It
does not require profound knowledge of
human psychology or vast experience of life to understand why the
imagination can never provide a basis for a common faith.
Does the order of the timeless universe and your part in it reflective of the unfathomable Mind which makes and sustains it in ways
human mentation can not perceive have any relevance to you or are you so bland and blah, so gray in your
imagination that you are blocked by your senses from seeing and knowing the real nature of the present and the beyond which are One?
Honest men try to tell the truth, but in order to
do so they are obliged, like liars, to tell stories... Stories have been told, and told with
imagination, in the serious attempt to speak the truth that concerns
human life most deeply.
Animal brains don't have the cognitive capacity for «
imagination» and abstract thinking like a
human being.
Clarification... I
did not say they were BASED on
human imagination, but rather that I believe there is much in the bible that is the product of such.
If God is not like what we have been taught, then when we declare, «God
does not exist,» we are not denying the God who
does truly exist, but the god who is nothing more than a figment of
human imagination, philosophical speculation, sociological superstition, and religious wish - fulfillment.
But legal systems as such
do not produce anything that corresponds to the biblical sensitivity which forcefully enjoins against the source of all violence, namely, the realm of thought and contemplation, the intangible but critically powerful world of
human imagination.
One literally can not imagine a limit to the
human imagination» @Chad «very true, of course that doesn't mean that Abraham Lincoln wasn't real... Blanket statements are pretty worthless when evaluating the historicity of a particular claim (which is why anti-theists tend to stick to that)»
Never anywhere has any doctrine on earth brought God and man so near together as has Christianity; neither could anyone else
do it, only God Himself can, every
human invention remains after all a dream, an uncertain
imagination.
Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the
imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how
humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.
a fact) uses the same structures in the
human brain's hippocampus as
does imagination.
From the psychology and neuroscience around play, creativity, dreaming and sleep, we can as easily derive a picture of
human cognition that doesn't recoil from the buzzing, blooming demands of everyday life, but exults in using
imagination, stories, abstraction and metaphor to comprehend the world.
Ever since scientists realized that
humans evolved from a succession of primate ancestors, the public
imagination has been focused on the inflection point when those ancestors switched from ape - like shuffling to walking upright as we
do today.
«
Imagination does not become great until
human beings, given the courage and strength, use it to create.»
What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it
does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all,
human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our
imagination, our will, and our sense of right.
Yet even though our team literally made history with #WeThePeople, there is something uniquely special (for me) when you excite the
human imagination in a project that is a direct letter to your own daughter, especially when you
do it in a way your 81 - year - old father can read and smile with.
Human freedom, I suppose, is only possible in the
imagination, which is why we need stories and cats don't.
Karen Cantwell's «Take the Monkeys and Run» is a fast paced mystery with trigger happy dialogue that has a little to
do with monkeys and a lot to
do with the laugh - out - loud antics of one suburbanite soccer mom / obsessed movie buff, who finds her
imagination running wild when monkeys and a
human head are discovered at the house next door.
«
Imagination does not become great until
human beings, given the courage and strength, use it to create.»
In
doing so he explores how the fallibility of
human memory can become an agent for the
imagination.
[20] This exhibit included over 60 artists addressing social and political issues, including
human rights and equality, immigration, foreign relations, the environment, and climate change, and continued Bui's curatorial activation of Peter Lamborn Wilson's concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, «a space wherein the fluctuation of artistic energy establishes the flow of information, and in so
doing aligns — however fleetingly — a great collective
imagination.
But Earth's biosphere and carbon cycle are vastly more creative than
human imagination is able to anticipate, so don't take my word for any of this.
By restricting our
imaginations to how we codify everything that
humans currently
do, we trap ourselves into an ill - fated race to the bottom.
«
Imagination does not become great until
human beings, given the courage and strength, use it to create.»
But don't all these approaches resonate with one or another or several of the almost infinite range of
human personality and
imagination, suffering and need, life circumstances and requirements for healing?
«
Imagination does not become great until
human beings, given the courage and strength, use it to create.»