Sentences with phrase «in magical thinking»
His core conclusion is that the answer is no, and that ecomodernists such as myself are indulging in magical thinking.
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Why engage in magical thinking and wish fulfillment when we can simply start growing food, capturing water and go from there?
If you feel compelled to use actively managed funds, however, look for a strong (and lengthy) track record and take these three steps to help ensure that your choice is grounded more in logic than in magical thinking:
If your preschool - aged child engages in magical thinking, it should not be cause for great concern.
Great cartoon David, I see much of modern Christiandom indulging in magical thinking; word faith, prosperity, etc..
«There are people who engage in magical thinking about retirement happiness, just as some engage in magical thinking about retirement security — they want it, but they take no steps to get there,» says James Pawelski, who is also the executive director of the International Positive Psychology Association.
Not exact matches
It's a very cool mechanic, and when kids see it and hear the villain's voice in the portal, they think it's magical.»
While magical thinking is a concept in psychology, this, in plain terms, is how it relates to the context of business.
It means that your brain has the magical ability to piece together thoughts that may not make any sense in the beginning.
KL: I think the first phase that was all done in this beautiful, horizontal, magical way is over.
The psychodynamic approach is on full display in Season 1's penultimate episode, «Magical Thinking.»
According to Japan Times, the colour red was once thought to have magical powers in Japan.
However, Halligan's compensation ($ 18,000 / year toward conference attendance, $ 2,500 / year FSA, full health insurance with paid premiums, 30 days of PTO, to name a few) sounds more like magical thinking than solutions that could actually work in start - ups.
«These are magical moments that we think at Google are immensely important in the development of your company.»
Rubin's decision to share his story about financial losses at Goldman Sachs where he «weathered the storm» using his magical existential thinking stands in contrast to Citigroup's condition with Rubin as the long - tenured Chair of the Executive Committee.
RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...
And you think a magical being appeared from no where, spit in mud, and voila... there you were!
Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?
So, not only do we think you're an idiot for actually believing in a magical, all - powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky and demands things of you, we think you're an idiot for turning your back on the teachings of this magical, all - powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky.
The problems in this thread are: — god doesn't exist — the bible is a fraud — Christians are literally heathens even though they seem to think it is some magical word with which to zap atheists
That's how dangerous magical thinking is, and any one still living in a demon - haunted darkness in the 21st century should just be embarrassed.
One based in reality as evidenced and one based in wishful thinking based on fairy tale magical rationale.
Well done in a sea of magical thinking.
We are continuing to have this insane debate because we continue to beat our heads against the wall hoping that some kind of magical solution that no other country in the world has ever thought of will drop down out of the sky that allows us to keep the for - profit model and still deliver care to all.
I prefer to think of people as rational until they open up their mind and let me know of the goofy magical things they feel proud to «believe in».
if you can understand that, you can understand why we think your belief in a magical man in the sky is silly.
They all think there are magical people living in the sky waiting to give them candy forever if they play their cards right.
If you want to declare your magical beliefs in public, be prepared to hear what others think of those beliefs.
Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.
I think that the belief in magical gods in general - Greek, Roman, Hebrew - was waning.
As if believing in miracles, angels, and magical bearded men riding clouds wasn't laughable enough (not to mention the bearded man's zombie son), the church gives us one more reason to think them buffoons with this piece of «saint jerky.»
Hart addresses his book to those atheists who think that Christians believe «in some magical invisible friend who lives beyond the clouds.»
No amount of wishful thinking about magical happy lands in the sky can prevent its finality.
The difference id that evolution is based on facts (fosils, prior extinct animals, the evolution before our very eyes with microbes, etc) and creationism has absolutely no evidence whatsover and is based on fantasy and magical thinking and has no place in science classes.
I am a christian conservative repub and Romneys cult religion is a no vote for me.I hope people wake up and see Romney is a cultist and should never be in the whitehouse.Do we want a man who thinks his undies or pantys are magical??? Do we want a man who worships Joesoph Smith the polygamist, murderer making laws for America??
They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.
The new manifesto urges humanity to «leave behind the magical thinking and myth - making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature,» notes that religions «have their origins in pre-urban nomadic and agricultural societies of the past» and are irrelevant to the «postindustrial global information culture that is emerging,» and calls for a World Parliament.
I like what you said here Carol «Actually, magical thinking takes the mystery out of religion and puts the believer back in control».
Insane people think Humans are some sort of 4th magical being that's not in anyway related to animals despite that whole pesky «genetics» thing pretty much guaranteeing we are.
We believe that people who think there are invisible, magical people in the sky, are psychotic.
We think of «eyesight» as this magical thing because it's pretty magical, yet all it is is the result of photons striking chemicals that are in physical structures within the retina and cause a nerve impulse.
The tithe is not only a false teaching in the church, it promotes guilt, shame, and a host of goofy magical thinking.
I think we should look for answers in the theory of evolution as to why it is that humanity is infllicted with magical thinking to such an extent that even brilliant people can not escape the trap of religious delusion.
Mormons do not wake up thinking their underwear is going to take them on some magical ride through space or that it gives any advantage in the afterlife.
In the absense of a naturalistic explanation, your default belief is magical thinking?
Pretty please????» When man declared the earth was flat, the bible had already declared it round... When the Greeks declared the Earth was held up by a magical man in the sky, the bible declared it was held upon nothing... Give it some thought.
LET's Religiosity Law # 7 — If you think the bible is historical fact of the creation of the Universe, Earth or Mankind and believe without a doubt that some Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat of his flesh, drink of his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master; so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a sinful woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree!
Because a real Science person would not think animals can talk, wearing robes means something, lighting candles does magic, a god in the sky listens to peoples praying, that magical rituals can affect something, and that we decend from inbreeding (adam and eve's kids scr3wed each other)
David A. Stewart, in Thirst for Freedom, describes the operation of the alcoholic's narcissism as «the little dictator,» an unconscious complex of magical thinking, false pride, fear, anger, lack of insight, and resistance to facing one's need for outside help.
Once you accepted that there's a magical being in the sky who made the world less than 10k years ago and committed genocide once because he didn't like what his creation was doing, it's not a great leap to accept that people who think or act differently than you are abominations.