Sentences with phrase «irrational if»

«It's irrational if their real objectives were about enhancing trade union democracy,» he said.

Genuine democrats should not brand decisions taken by the demos as irrational if not mad.

«I believe that I exist» = > this is irrational if you are simply organic matter reacting to chemical stimuli.

A godless belief is irrational if we currently believe we exist.

You have to be willing to accept the illogical and irrational if you want to believe in God — it's a definitional requirement of belief in the transcendent.

Not exact matches

Peikoff also helpfully answers the burning pop - culture question: If the movie E.T. is anti-adult and anti-science — as, by objectivist philosophy, it clearly is — does that make it inherently evil and irrational?

If you become engaged in a conversation with someone who is clearly irrational or has some sort of ax to grind, the best strategy is to ignore them.

«You build that trust and build moments of delight so consistently that consumers will choose your company over another, even if it's irrational.»

History shows that investors are frequently irrational, but if there were a lot of value per share that went wanting, you can comfortably bet that share prices would have gone up.

«If you have ample funds and are looking to get rid of a little every month, it would not be irrational to buy a whole - life, universal - life or variable - life policy, where the cash value grows income tax - free as long as the policy is held until death,» Hunt said.

«The central bank, if necessary, is fully capable of stabilising the exchange rate through direct intervention in the foreign exchange market to avoid [the] herd mentality resulting in irrational movements of the rate,» Ma was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency.

I do not care one iota if you like what I write or say about your irrational beliefs.

We don't want to call people irrational just because they like peanut butter more than jelly, or if they like jelly more than peanut butter.

If you don't set boundaries, filter, govern, and restrict how the world works with you, you will be at the whimsy of everyone else's (mostly irrational) demands.

If that is the case, then irrational exuberance is always going to be followed by irrational depression.

Materiality Matters Anyone who denies the immateriality of God risks sounding metaphysically insolent if not downright irrational, so I want to thank Phillip Cary for his generous summary and careful analysis of my book, Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter («Material God,» May).

On another note if I make up my own stupid, irrational belief system do I get to write about it on the front page of a «news» site too?

Either way, your reasons for following such a being, if it exists are completely irrational and highly immoral.

If the tendency of contemporary theology is to give too much to Justin and the efficacy of rational thought, the tendency of postmodern theology is to give too much to Tertullian and the irrational.

@Scientist If you feel that my disdain for irrational thinking is bigoted, then you would be correct.

This type of irrational atheist will typically go onto become a rational atheist if they are introduced to the concept of god once they have matured intellectually.

Yes, I did go through an emotional «if only» syndrome: feeling that if only I'd been a better daughter it might not have happened — yet at the same time I recognized that as an irrational but common emotional reaction.

that's an irrational statement, if the God of Israel is real, you are in DEEP DEEP trouble.

But hey, if you want to keep harping on this, feel free, I just think it makes you look a bit irrational to spend so much time arguing with someone when he hasn't commented on it one way or the other.

John F. Kennedy was not a victim of the irrational American right wing; he was a casualty of the Cold War» a Cold War, Piereson reminds us, that he prosecuted vigorously, if not always wisely or successfully.

If you think that pink unicorns are more irrational than your god, there may be little hope for a rational discussion.

The values are separate and «hostile» — thought complementary if not collapsed: to use either set of values to estimate the other is an injustice, a contamination, reduction, crime — whether you are in rationalist mode or inn «irrationalist» mode, literalizing your irrational images and claiming the world was made in 6 days, damnit.

If you claim Hitchens was irrational in choosing to smoke / drink then you are also irrational in choosing unhealthy food.

If I was unwilling to state that bigfoot does nt exist, then I certainly wouldnt consider a person irrational for believing he does exist.

it's irrational to call belief in something irrational, if you yourself arent prepared to say that belief is incorrect.

If you merely have a lack of belief that Bigfoot is real (you do nt make the claim «Bigfoot does not exist»), why would you consider anyone that does believe in Bigfootto have done so for completely irrational reasons??

Folks, note that Chad's statement, «it's irrational to call belief in something irrational, if you yourself arent prepared to say that belief is incorrect» is either stupidity or just more of him being intentionally obtuse (insufficient evidence = no belief = rational position).

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational form.

Otherwise, you have a bunch of irrational people telling strangers that they will burn both for their wrongs AND others» good deeds, if they don't repent!

On the contrary, if God is the loving Father Jesus held him to be, it is irrational to doubt God's ability or willingness to deal with individuals.

Religion has generally been «supra - rational» if not frankly irrational.

But, as I will try to argue, the request is not as «irrational» as it seems if it is considered in the context of Abraham's earlier education and not looked at only on its own.

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.

If you think about it, people tent to act violent on impulse and are typically irrational.

If you are referring to mine, how is what I sais irrational.

Is the whole thing about talking about the garden of eden as if it were real, then calling atheists irrational supposed to be ironic?

Deny logic if you must, but that makes you irrational.

I do care if those irrational beliefs are used to discriminate against others.

If you cling to the irrational belief that it's the literal word of a diety, and you read it and actually decide you want to follow it, be self - aware enough to understand when rational people question your morality and intelligence.

Religious beliefs opposed to what Dr. Grobstein proposes are deemed by him to be irrational, especially if they are Roman Catholic or fundamentalist (he tends to conflate the two).

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.

If belief in the atom was ever seen as «irrational» then the person who was eventually proven right must have had a better sense of the atom's qualities and function..

«In order to think,» he wrote in 1942, «we must claim for our reasoning a validity which is not credible if our own thought is merely a function of our brain, and our brains a by - product of irrational physical processes.»

If horses were atheists they might stereotype all Christians as irrational, unthinking, uncaring, something rather less than human.

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.