Sentences with phrase «in irrational acts»

This belief discourages constructive action, and can result in irrational acts by people in despair, individually, or as nations, willing to do anything to derail the juggernaut we are told is carrying us, inevitably, to destruction.

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They're acting rationally in an irrational environment.»

This world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the good people that often act in irrational and / or criminally wrongdoing ways within the confines of their individual minds, core or enterprise groups, but because of the good people that don't do anything about it (like reveal the truth through education like Financial Samauri is doing!).

your immature, irrational and absolute blind remarks toward atheism have been proved that there is no rational argument beyond this point, I suggest you read my post to the fullest and absorb it's meaning, and continue to act like a civilized being, your behavior is not acceptable in any rational debate, you are not making yourself look good.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

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I know some of the reasons for the way they act, but a lot of it is irrational in my opinion.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

Committing suicide is not a rational act by most standards especially since suicide in and of itself is considered an irrational act.

Yes, it's harmless to nobody else until you act upon those beliefs and, unfortunately in this country, irrational beliefs are being enacted every day causing a lot of misery.

Atheists are always stating «We KNOW there is no God...» which is just as irrational as saying «We KNOW there is a God, and He / She wants us to act in this manner.»

A 15 - year - old pupil stabbed teacher Ann Maguire to death in a «completely irrational act stemming from a deep seated grudge», a senior detective has told the inquest into her death.

Faith is not merely a polite expression for unsubstantiated assertion, not an excuse for believing in God as an irrational act.

From an atheistic perspective, it is absurd, unreasonable, and irrational to anonymously give to charity because there is no one and no God to see your «good» act, so why give to anyone who can't return the favor in some way?

The internment and relocation of 110,000 Japanese on the Pacific Coast during the Second World War, not for any acts of disloyalty but simply through a suspicion based on racial identification, was less virulent in its effect than the Nazi destruction of the Jews but equally irrational.

BREAKING NEWS: The New York Post reports that Alexander Bonds girlfriend told investigators that Bonds suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was acting «irrational and erratic» while off his meds in the hours before gunning down NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia on Wednesday.

Part of what's behind this seemingly irrational belief may lie in what's called implicit social cognition — the deep - rooted assumptions we all carry around, and may act on without realizing it.

This means they will respond to certain situations with inappropriate levels of anger, for example resulting in road rage or irrational, violent acts such as throwing a television out of a window during an argument with a spouse or parent.

Suppressed anger could surge, or people could act in knee - jerk and irrational ways over the next few days as Uranus «stations.»

And on the fiction front, Cristi Puiu, in Aurora, fastidiously observed his main character's increasingly irrational behavior in a perhaps deliberately failed attempt to get inside the head of a seemingly normal individual who commits four acts of homicide.

The release of this clip also follows claims by Johnny Depp's attorney, Laura Wasser, who said Amber Heard refused to testify at last weekend's deposition and simply «paced in a separate room» while acting «manic and irrational.»

Virtually every member of the government portrayed in this film seems fairly weak and acts somewhat irrational in the face of adversity.

The unpredictable and sometimes seemingly irrational behavior exhibited by young students is simply a product of their biology — the frontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls reasoning and helps us think before we act, develops much later in our development.

The markets were in chaos and acting very, very irrational.

You absolutely want to look for these periodic occasions when the person on the other side of the trade is acting in a way that is irrational.

The debt snowball helps encourage irrational behavior instead of teaching people to act in a mathematically sound way.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In the concluding section, Dr Oreskes expressed dismay that scientists should act in irrational ways, «And we are placing responsibility for making new knowledge in the hands of those who have the most old knowledge to unmakIn the concluding section, Dr Oreskes expressed dismay that scientists should act in irrational ways, «And we are placing responsibility for making new knowledge in the hands of those who have the most old knowledge to unmakin irrational ways, «And we are placing responsibility for making new knowledge in the hands of those who have the most old knowledge to unmakin the hands of those who have the most old knowledge to unmake.

Instead of individually - minded, «homogenous globules of desire» that act with our own best interests in mind as certain social darwinists would have it, we're deeply affected by an irrational set of concerns like the opinions of others and ideologies.

Since malice directed at a persons because of their membership in a protected class will be both irrational and male fides, section 14 (a) of the Act would become redundant.

The Supreme Court held in 2013 that earlier sanctions imposed on the Bank by HM Treasury were irrational and disproportionate, and the Bank's claim for damages against the Treasury under the Human Rights Act 1998 is listed for trial in the Commercial Court in October 2016.

Faieta v ICAP — acting for ICAP defending claim that placing an employee on garden leave, and continuing that period of garden leave for 15 months, was irrational or perverse and in respect of damages claim for various bonus awards during notice period.

Mrs Justice Patterson concluded that the LAA's application of the criteria included in the 8 February letter was irrational and would require solicitors firms to act in breach of contract (2010 Standard Contract Crime).

Challenge on basis that the decision was contrary to a substantive legitimate expectation, irrational, in breach of the consultation requirements and contrary to s 149 Equality Act 2010.

The claimants submitted, inter alia, that the orders: (i) had been made without any prior consultation as to the principle, relying upon the common law duty to act fairly and / or the doctrine of procedural legitimate expectation; and (ii) were irrational on the basis that the reasons which had been put forward by the defendants in justification of the decision were inconsistent and contradictoryDyson LJ: The fact that, when conferring on the lord chancellor the power to prescribe court fees, parliament had decided whom he should consult before doing so, militated strongly against the idea that there should co-exist a common law duty to consult more widely (in the absence of a clear promise by the lord chancellor that there would be wider consultation and in the absence of any clear established practice of wider consultation).

As such, each participant believes it is acting in an economically rational fashion while collectively the behavior is irrational.

Love can bring out powerful forces in us such as intense hatred, extreme jealousy, and gut wrenching fears of abandonment that can make us act in seemingly irrational ways.