You have no more or less the corner market on truth than those who incorporate faith
into their system of belief.
On the issue of humility vis a vis their fantasies — they fantasize about me because they can't incorporate what I actually say
into their system of beliefs.
Not exact matches
It only gets complicated when we buy
into belief systems about it, rather than our personal experience
of it.
I am sorry you need to trick yourself
into being happy, there is a growing number
of atheist in the world and you will just have to accept your
belief system is slowly... but surely dieing.
If your
belief system is based on bringing misery
into the lives
of others who are not in your church, then that's a sad way to live your life.
If someone has at the core
of his being something demonstrably wrong, he can never be trusted in ANY context where that
belief system comes
into play.
History shows the Catholic Church being a lawless body that has been allowed to inflict their
beliefs and twisted ways on people in the name
of «religion» and force weaker minds
into adhering to their closed minded
belief system.
I think what usually happens to these people when they are confronted with a convincing truth that challenges their present way
of thinking is that they revert to a childish coping mechanism
of regressing
into a more secure but less mature
belief system.
The degrading
of learning in the US is almost entirely due to vigorous efforts by christians to ram their
belief systems into the school
system and replace topics like science with non-thinking dogma.
Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense
of objectivity: novel human doings in need
of guidance, long - enduring
systems of belief that provide the schemata
of interpretation by which that guiding can be done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon,
into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent action.
Other
belief systems proclaim «merit - based redemption'that leads one
into a state
of constant contemplation
of keeping scores, self - righteousness, and adherence to barbaric punitive laws.
I finally understood this after reading Keith Green's biography where he tried a lot
of different
belief systems looking for the deepest satisfaction and finally settled
into Christ in the hippie years because it held for him the depth and strength to satisfy his spiritual longings.
A «primary framework» is one «seen as rendering what would otherwise be a meaningless aspect
of the scene
into something that is meaningful» (FA 21), and the frame for all such primary frameworks, the understandings shared by a group regarding interpretive schemata, their interrelationships, and «the sum total
of forces and agents that these [schemata] acknowledge to be loose in the world,» constitute its «
belief system» or «cosmology» (FA 27).
Actually Saraswati, you abandoned your original position that America is a «two party
system which only legislation is likely to change» and supported everything I said, which is that legislation is not required, and the number
of parties is not designed
into the
system, and it's not likely to happen because people here prefer to abandon their true
beliefs in favor
of a lesser evil that might win.
«Secular pluralism says religion is bad for freedom or democracy or tolerance; SR says that's not the case at all, and that to have any hope
of achieving peace, we can no longer push religion off to the side or
into some private
belief system.
It was a very long and complicated answer and way to deep for me, but the short
of it was his
beliefs were a modified version
of Christianity, and other religions woven
into one
belief system.
His teachings gradually commingled with the
beliefs and practices
of various evolutionary religions and finally developed
into those theologic
systems present on Urantia at the opening
of the first millennium after Christ.
You're running
into the problem that syncretists always do — both
of the «syncretized»
belief systems include a purist tradition that objects to polluting their Truth with anything from any other source.
Depending on how you draw up definitions, the first can blend
into the second, and even the second and third can overlap on some
belief systems and philosophical overviews (such as from Whitehead — if you're wondering who he is, he co-wrote the modern founding treatise
of logic).
there is a topic other than philosophy called anthropology that narrows - down the
belief systems of all peoples
of the world
into four different categories....
We all need to care when their
beliefs are imposed on the rest
of us in the form
of laws and leak
into our public education
system, that's when we need to care.
The author seems to have forgotten that the founders
of every religion he cites departed from the religious
belief systems into which they were born.
I questioned the religion I was raised
into and you can say I pretty much made up my own
system of practices and
beliefs.
You seem to «privilege» your sense
of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy
into your sense
of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service
of my attitude, outlook, frame
of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational
belief & bias
system — and my unconscious,
of which my consciousness is merely tip -
of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip
of the iceberg.
The Tablet would like smaller numbers to come, one by one, in a way which provides the opportunity to acclimatise them
into the kind
of reductionist
belief -
system they favour.
Instead
of bringing spiritual freedom and the realisation
of a spiritual goal, as all sound religion should, fundamentalism imprisons people
into such a rigid
system of belief that they find it difficult to free themselves.
Oh and speaking
of hypocrisy and or intolerance... let me clue you
into the LGBT culture and
belief system — they have as MUCH racism, intolerance and misogyny and misandry, bigotry, social and elitist classist division and hate
of heto ro se xuals you cant even BEGIN to imagine.
When a person becomes a Christian, they do so through the saving KNOWLEDGE
of Christ which get incorporated
into their faith and
belief system, and through Baptism and infusion
of the Holy Spirit continues to cause regeneration in the life
of a person until they die, and inherit eternal life.
Since the Christian
belief system is forced upon people at the moment
of birth and since the majority
of people born in the Western world are born
into the Christian faith then it stands to reason that most atheists would be former Christians.
Some people believe because they have met someone who shines with New Creation, some believe because when they are in church they experience or once experienced something, some people believe because
belief was inculcated in childhood and has never been challenged or the challenge has never risen to the level to breaking the
belief system, some people believe because not to believe is too scary to contemplate, some people believe because they read, heard or saw something that broke through
into their heart
of hearts... There is no one way
into or out
of belief.
One
of the central tenets
of their
belief system is that God judges nations as well as men, so they absolutely claim the right to force others
into their own
belief to forestall God's judgment on the nation they live in.
For generations mainline Protestants have tried to «demythologize» the contents
of scriptures and creeds in an effort to gain social and political influence, while dispensationalists have avidly «mythologized» the Bible
into ever more incredible
systems of belief about the «end times.»
Calvinism is a nihilistic
belief system which turns reality
into the farce
of a cruel Puppet Master.
For many ecofeminists and deep ecologists, such a critique
of Christianity is a prelude to its rejection; it is a signal to create new religious
systems, opt for non-Western ones, or return to the
beliefs and practices
of an era preceding the fall
of Western civilization
into a world - and woman - denying dualism.
Oh man, the sheer amount
of effort that religious people put
into trying to spin their entire
belief system back onto others to save face is staggering!
Religion is supposed to be a code
of conduct for individuals who can't figure how to act and behave on own, but more often than not it also turns
into a
belief system for those who can't think for themselves.
According to thedictionary, a cult is any «
system of religious
belief or teaching», which means that ALL religions are cults, and the only difference between them is the number
of people they have managed to con
into following them.
Please Bill understand that what is written in your dogma relates to your lot only, those that have been programed
into the flock, leave the rest
of the society to go through life with a different
belief system or none at all.
What began as something
of a universal truth — vegetables are good for you, processed foods are not — snowballed
into a highly - commercialized
belief system complete with its own factions, splinter groups, and (yes) extremists.
Reprogrammed
belief system, decided after originally planning elective caesarean that home birth was the go, committed time and energy
into being pregnancy and preparing for birth, faith over fear, comfortable with midwife after devoting time and energy
into the relationship, created vision board and reflected daily, music at birth, swayed body, focused inwards, concentrated on breath, support from partner, relief in water pool, slipped in and out
of dreamlike consciousness, caught baby in own hand s, profound spiritual connection, trusting
A lot
of these birth stories have enough NCB tropes that it's easy to see that the woman bought
into an existing
belief system.
Whenever we buy
into those
belief systems that we aren't good enough and are making a mess
of things, we reinforce our fear.
Finally, as well as getting people
into work, and taking action to improve wages and working conditions, a social security
system built on our
belief in the dignity
of work, must ensure that people are rewarded for the effort and contribution they make throughout their working lives.
Cox says the new two - day APD training for officers includes a remedial on implicit bias: how unconscious attitudes and
beliefs can affect the everyday judgment and decision - making
of police officers, who will now learn how to cast those old measures
of character aside and use their discretion to divert low - level offenders from the criminal justice
system into coordinated, managed, health - based services.
Contrary to current
beliefs viewing gang structure as hierarchical and clan recruiting processes as rigorous, Red Gang members described their gang structure as a loose social network
into which individuals drifted through friendships with current associates; similarly, gang leadership was said to be the result
of personal dexterity — individuals ascended to command status because
of their personal traits — rather than the outcome
of a selective
system imposed from above.
Dr Jago Cooper said: «For the millions
of indigenous peoples living in the Caribbean before European arrival, caves represented portals
into a spiritual realm, and therefore these new discoveries
of the artists at work within them captures, the essence
of their
belief systems and the building blocks
of their cultural identity.»
Whatever your faith or
belief system — whether its God, Buddha, Mohammad or just nature — learn to tap
into this as a source
of strength and purpose to guide your intuitive self.
It is also worth mentioning that there are plenty
of skin specialists (dermatologists) unfortunately with rather inflexible or even «incurable»
belief systems when it comes to psoriasis, who play right
into the hands
of their psoriasis patients by continually prescribing strong drugs for both internal and external use.
When a government official (Driver) starts interviewing members
of the cult, he is given an eye - opening realization
into their
belief system and how the boy plays
into it.
Silence is about the struggle to reconcile long - held ideals with everyday moral behavior; about the threat
of violence that's always present when deep - held
belief systems, especially religious ones, come
into conflict; and about the lasting damage inflicted by a global colonialist
system that was just gearing up in the 1640s but that persists in many guises today.