Sentences with phrase «irrational ideas»

If you allow irrational ideas to become an acceptable part of modern society, then you should not surprised if that leads to problems.
Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature is immutable — not least in its fickleness, its embrace of irrational ideas and practices, and its suggestibility.
Within Asia generally, there exists a strong cultural preference for sons, based on the not irrational idea that sons support their parents in old age and carry on the family name.
For those who do not know it is totally irrational idea of believing in Christianity «just in case,» because you have nothing to lose and everything to gain, and if you do not believe then you have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
When people learn that intellectuals deny that any such understanding of the world is possible, they are more likely to accept quite irrational ideas and join dangerous cults.
Religion on the other hand offers irrational ideas that we somehow came from an omnipotent being that has always existed.
With postpartum psychosis, a woman can have irrational ideas about her baby — such as that the baby is possessed or that she has to hurt herself or her child.
Bugs aren't most people's favourite thing to pick up and look at closely, but a bamboo specimen may be one way to get around that somewhat irrational idea of «ickiness» about insects.
The seven guidelines for better couple communication offered in this user - friendly guide emphasize non-blaming acceptance, integrity, mutual support, appreciation, replacing irrational ideas and expectations with realistic attitudes.
In the process, the Beckification of our politics — the normalization of what are completely irrational ideas — scares the hell out of a lot of people.
Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature is immutable — not least in its fickleness, its embrace of irrational ideas and practices, and its suggestibility.Charles Mackay's classic work, Extraordinary Popular....
RET therapists actively challenge their clients» irrational ideas, expectations, and beliefs.
She was not that well educated nor did she look at what the consequences of actually following her childish and irrational ideas would be.
Contingency is not an irrational idea; deductive reason is subsidiary to the ultimate rationality, which, as Whitehead says, is the wise, free creation of novel orders.
An immortality from which these inconceivable billions of fellow - strivers should be excluded becomes an irrational idea for us.
As an artist, she is interested in the friction that is instigated within the mixing of these conventions — whether it is an aesthetic structure that informs a political commentary or an attempt to bring an irrational idea or an idea that does not have definitive form into a physical structure.
What's funny is that buying Bitcoin Private doesn't even have to be such an irrational idea.
Cognitive - behavioral therapies focus on identifying maladaptive thoughts, understanding the assumptions behind the thoughts, and learning to correct or counter the irrational ideas that interfere with healthy functioning.
In fact, if you look at his original list of irrational beliefs, well, I think he called them irrational ideas in those days, some of them wouldn't pass muster as irrational beliefs now, more like, sort of, distorted influences.
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