Sentences with phrase «in irrational ways»

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 unmake.

Along the way, it becomes clear that a strange force was changing people in the past, making them behave in irrational ways.

Our uneasiness about living in a secular society seems to be influencing our feelings about education, often in irrational ways — stimulated, in part, by television evangelists.

What I'm trying to say is that atheists and believers should get along, because whether or not we want to admit it, we are both living in irrational ways, and we realize that absolute rationality is not all it is cracked up to be.

As I have pointed out, conservative Evangelicals (but not liberals) are those who can be accused of «picking and choosing» in an irrational way.

Not exact matches

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!).

Check your own facts and discover that you are in every way as irrational.

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.

Both are irrational... religion, which is force fed to Americans from childhood, creates the mental / emotional conditions for other irrationalities like fear and hatred of people who are different in some way.

According to Theodore, if God had made the human being as immortal and immutable to begin with, we would be differentiated in no way from the irrational creation, since we would have no knowledge of our own good.

And yet, the song can contrarily suggest that he would be wrong to adopt a dismissive attitude towards his love for her — no, it means something deep to him, and that could mean that the love is in some way right — what his apparently irrational eros is telling him is that she is capable of being complementary to him in some special way, and so he should stick it out.

You are welcome to disagree, and you are free to do so in whatever manner you choose; if your response is some type of irrational, hate - driven attack on someone else's way of life, though, you really are contributing more to my point then your own.

He accepted responsibility for the victory of reason within his own soul in a way that implied an inner transcendence over the irrational and rational forces alike.

These essays too show remarkable staying power, particularly the provocatively titled «On the Political Stupidity of the Jews,» his own exploration of the familiar puzzle of American Jews» fierce, visceral, but in many ways irrational and self - defeating commitment to liberalism, and his suggestions for a possible way forward in that regard» an effort to formulate a sound and well - grounded tradition of specifically Jewish political thought.

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

in some ways irrational (the video posts certainly).

Wimber defined power evangelism as «a presentation of the gospel that is rational but that also transcends the rational (though it is in no way «irrational» or anti-rational).»

Speaking about the decision to tackle his fear of heights for the stunt, Dr John added: «Isn't it a fairly irrational fear in a way because you know that everything that is around about you is going to hold you.

By way of contrast, Rolt insisted that this way of conceiving of divine power is «immoral, irrational and anti-Christian,» from which have sprung some of the most egregious travesties in the Christian faith.50

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?

Any way you look at it, this is a mysterious world, but of all the ways in which the mystery can be stated none seems to me so improbable, so irrational, as to say there is no God, no Mind or Purpose in the universe, and all that is beautiful and right here is the accidental result of physical atoms going it blind.

Having the burgeoning powers of manhood but little experience of what it means to be a man, his behavior ranges in crazy mixed - up ways from the most irrational stupidity to brilliant sublimity.

It is imho in every way as irrational as religion is.

To be more specific, in the actual practices of the Evangelical community in North America, there is an over-commitment to Scripture in a way that is false, irrational, and harmful to the cause of Christ.»

As irrational as it sounds, Wilshere, in all probability, would have to make way for Cazorla, with Ozil playing as the Left - Winger.

What people are not getting, is that WE ALL KNOW ARSENE IS NOT CUT OUT ANYMORE FOR THIS JOB, but it is the way in which fans are wanting to handle the situation which is totally irrational and simply not practical — because like I said Arsene deserves more than a bunch of hooligans shouting for his head.

Thinking errors, simply put, are patterns of thinking that are inaccurate or irrational; they influence our feelings and behavior, often in negative ways.

In many ways, Iran is doing what India did; the difference being that Iran is viewed as irrational and rogue, whereas India was considered responsible and rational.

The potential threat posed by Iran's claimed peaceful nuclear programme (going anything over 20 % uranium enrichment, defined as the «Red Line» by the Obama administration), should also be understood in the context of the unintended consequences of the norms and rules (of the regime itself) and the ways in which nations both «good» and «rogue», «rational» and «irrational» have come to define their own rights and obligations within a nuclear regime.

Public opinion began to grow sensitive to this in ways that metropolitan pundits found bizarre and irrational.

A realistic tree of life can also change the way researchers look at more theoretical questions, such as how in the world such a supposedly wasteful and irrational process as sex evolved.

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

My irrational apology was basically saying, «Sorry for being in the way when I wasn't in the way.»

The film explores how our mind fights against depression, often convincing the body that it has to carry out irrational tasks as a way to achieve metaphorical closure on a painful episode in life.

It's absolutely irrational for teachers to behave in any other way but to teach directly to that test.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

The irrational part is thinking that dividends are the only good way to generate income from stocks, are the primary source of superior performance in any given period, or that dividends somehow magically convey stability to your portfolio that's not available from other types of stock allocations.

One thing for sure, when you consider how irrational the discussion is with people trying to justify wiping out the tax advantages of a mortgage you realize that these politicians are desperate and they will lie and steal freedom if it gets in the way of their agenda.

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.

What's particularly fascinating about all of this — the way TNR supporters are made out to be irrational (if not mentally ill — as in a letter to Conservation Biology last year, when several TNR opponents, including four contributors to «The Impact of Free Ranging Cats,» compared TNR to hoarding [28]-RRB--- is just how emotionally charged the appeal of TNR opponents is.

ps fans have been in the mud long after ps3 realease right along with 360 fans, the 1 year to 7 is laughable I could easily show soooooo much trolling from ps fans all last gen just as easily as you could show some from Xbox fans so just stop the BS, especially when this very site by any rational person would be admittedly skewed positively towards ps, which is fine because maybe that's just how popular the brand is but it also bleeds over to there being way more fanatical, irrational fanboys of the ps type on this site.

Very few of the female painters who've won long - term careers have painted in expressionistic or more unleashed ways, deploying high - keyed color or ropy surfaces, or painting in ways that strike people as irrational, out of control, or non-cerebral.

Dada's irrational tactics later paved the way in the 1920s for Surrealism, a movement that encouraged participating artists to look to the subconscious for inspiration.

In «Passing for White, Passing for Black», you write: «I've learned that there is no «right» way of managing the issue of my racial identity, no way that will not offend or alienate someone, because my designated racial identity itself exposes the very concept of racial classification as the offensive and irrational instrument of racism it is.»

He acknowledges emotion in the process of storytelling, and exposes ways in which irrational feelings or inaccurate memories might even affect larger political and social interactions.

This work is not abstracted from reality in the way that some abstract painters start with particular objects or landscapes; rather, Egan refuses to begin with a plan, relying instead on, in his words, «an unconscious recognition of my surroundings, digesting and transferring this complexity into a cascade of recognizable but irrational space» in a process that begins with marks as a record of «natural movements.»

, 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,

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!