Sentences with phrase «into apocalyptic think»
It is probably unwise to lapse into apocalyptic think, especially in view of the scientific uncertainty and long - time scales, but ostrich - like denial is also imprudent since a lot is at stake, from the wealth of nations to the future of the planet.
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John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....
These interpreters hold that Jesus used the phrase only in its ordinary sense of «man,» and that some community in which the Gospel tradition was being formed, itself thinking of Jesus as the apocalyptic Son of Man, read that meaning back into Jesus» words.
That apocalyptic elements, in general, and pictures of future punishment, in particular, were carried over from current Judaism into Jesus» thinking and speaking seems obvious.
The notion of personal immortality arose in Hebrew culture late in the Apocalyptic period, and simply was not present earlier, when all dead souls were thought to go to Sheol, into a «dormant» state.
In the end though, I'm going to keep on thinking of Ellie as Ellen Page just because I'm Can (eh) dian, and so is she, and even though that's where my knowledge of her as a person starts and stops, I'd rather go on believing that a Canadian will be among The Last of Us, when mankind's downfall begins it's spiral into aftermath, and Ellen Page in a post Apocalyptic situation (Canadian wise) is more believable than say Jim Carrey, Brian Addams, Justin Beiber, Celine Dion Alanis Moressett or heck, even Billy Shatner.
The high proportion of people that went into climate science over the last 20 years seemed to be wraped up in the saving the world / apocalyptic vision thoughts of climate and weather.