Sentences with phrase «imaginary beings instead»

At the three - day Second Global Conference on Magic and the Supernatural, researchers will discuss the neuroscience of magical thinking and the ways some traumatized individuals try to cope with abuse and tragedy by attributing their suffering to mystical forces or imaginary beings instead of admitting that someone they love has hurt them.

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Instead of pursuing our dreams as young people, we're often just trying to avoid imaginary pitfalls or conform to a predictable, mythological career path.

junior, instead of boasting about childish notions like belief in imaginary beings, secular charities get on with their business.

That's why their minds are focused on what real and important to them as they approach death, instead of some imaginary sky daddy that their subconscious never really bought into.

we are animals... some people are stupid and pray to imaginary beings... there is no natural code of conduct requiring us to think you are somehow better than just another moron... you want respect, EARN it... one way to do that is to keep your religious beliefs to yourself instead of inflicting that crap on everyone around you...

This is because he does not actually exist but is only your imagination and why your prayers do not do anything but make you feel like you did something real instead of imaginary.

theres much more good in the world to be done, so instead rubberstamping segregation or hate of any kind... I have «faith» that somewhere up on an imaginary cloud jesus is shaking his head and looking at his watch.

If you would like to prove to yourself that God is imaginary, here is one easy way to do it: Look for places in the Bible where God is an absurd, unmitigated jerk instead of the «all - knowing», «all - loving», «fully - enlightened» being that he is supposed to be.

To instead send your mind through imaginary scenes with Jesus, as Ignatian meditation and some other devotional paths do, is seen as not only a waste of time (why imagine he's here, when he really is here?)

Instead, like Bell, they wish for the danger to be imaginary and God to welcome all regardless of their offenses.

The general idea is that there is as much proof for a deity they call the «Flying Spaghetti Monster» as there is for a loving, Triune God (or any other deity), so they «worship» an imaginary, spaghetti - like thing and conclude their prayers with «Ramen» instead of «Amen,» which is admittedly clever.

america is waking up to the real truth, a belief in humans instead of faith in an imaginary god that does nothing.

I am so, so sorry to see all these people taking for granted by self - impressed, sanctimonious fools who instead thank imaginary beings.

Quite on the contrary, objective morality is far superior for the cooperative advancement of society instead of morality based on archaic stories that dangle an imaginary afterlife as a magical carrot.

A false belief about your wife does not amount to being in love with an imaginary woman instead of your wife.

Or, instead of straining to interpret a book written by delusional desert wanderers who were probably convinced the earth was flat... you could just ignore it and realize that god is imaginary, and that we have to take responsibility for our problems ourselves, and not trust «the invisible hand» to guide us.

My point is that there is no verifiable evidence for your imaginary friend god and when you make dumb a $ s statements as you did and then expect people to believe in your imaginary friend god, you don't make the creature sound very appealing to anyone who is not gullible enough to believe in it... try making it sound like a nicer creature instead of a monster!

Why waste valuable time you could be spending doing something else or being with those you love instead of following around false ideas and imaginary beings... Your chances of being abducted by an alien are 100 % more likely to happen than meeting something called «god».

Instead, Jackson was on Twitter inventing imaginary legal obstacles to doing this, or insisting that the Europeans would not play ball.

Instead the legislature claims that an imaginary Apollo is forging the chains that bind them and that he is driving them all insane.

Instead of being measured with real numbers, though, we measure complex manifolds with complex numbers, in which one of the coordinates includes a real number multiplied by the square root of negative 1 — an imaginary number that we call i. [Since the product of two negative numbers is positive, ordinary math suggests the square root of negative 1 can not exist — hence the moniker «imaginary.»]

If this display is rotated 45 degrees so that the dots define an imaginary diamond instead of a square, you perceive the path of motion rotated 45 degrees as well.

Instead, it's a riff on the same tropes that gave Dwayne Johnson his first big hit in The Game Plan — in this case the workaholic father [Murphy] who only begins to bond with his daughter [Yara Shahidi] when her imaginary friends give him astoundingly accurate assessments of companies in which his clients might wish to invest.

If Harris ever chooses to make a family drama again, instead of sci - fi action vehicles, my advice is to try to make his heroes seem real, instead of the imaginary ones found in this overcooked misfire.

While it can be frustrating while conversing with them about real business factors instead of imaginary conspiracies, their screams do get things moving faster.

Ending a debate over your imaginary friend just confirms what I thought: you are guided by emotions and feeling instead of facts and taking disagreements in stride is something you struggle with.

Instead of criticizing 401ks because they give American workers enough rope to hang themselves, a cogent and reasonable objection that would be widely ignored, they attempt to whip up populist sentiment against (largely imaginary) Wall Street fee gouging.

Imagine instead that you are placed into a glass box that's been furnished in the latest dentist's waiting room style, pitted against WWE wrestler and actor John Cena, and made to un-cork imaginary champagne bottles or milk virtual cows with 1 -2-Switch.

I also drew imaginary family trees, which were based on a grid - like system, but they featured cat families instead of people families.

She's currently working with portraits, manipulating this canonical form by creating intricately marked paintings of imaginary personas instead of actual people, to convey narrative.

Where do you think the boundaries lie for when a painting stops being perceptual and instead becomes imaginary?

Instead, I'm getting abused for imaginary comments about senators, and told that we should take some immediate action (but what?

As I said in the post, I think that there is a great discussion and debate to be had over the nature, size, and type of each of these various homeostatic mechanisms... but instead the AGW folks want to debate the exact value of the imaginary «climate sensitivity» figure.

Adversely displacing a great fraction of humanity's global economies for the sake of an erroneous and imaginary problem, or an actual problem whose progress can not be significantly affected, or significantly affecting an actual problem by making it colder and worse instead of warmer and better can hardly be regarded as «minutie.»

Instead, she wanted to be admitted to hospital for treatment for entirely imaginary internal bleeding.