Sentences with phrase «irrational ways of»

Masculine stupidity» on that subject is a deep mystery to me, as is masculine violence and preference for irrational ways of dealing with disagreements.

The resulting process is an irrational way of expression that aims to stay tuned with an intuitive perception of reality.

Not exact matches

Intended as a cute way to promote the mainstream adoption of Ethereum — a digital and decentralized ledger which records the game's smart contracts — CryptoKitties caught on with an irrational vengeance.

Finding a better way to source diamonds makes a world of sense, but fine gemstones are an inherently irrational purchase.

This world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the good people that often act in irrational and / or criminally wrongdoing ways within the confines of their individual minds, core or enterprise groups, but because of the good people that don't do anything about it (like reveal the truth through education like Financial Samauri is doing!).

I know some of the reasons for the way they act, but a lot of it is irrational in my opinion.

I worry, however, about the way that the great myth of religious violence serves to justify certain kinds of violence: «Those people over there are crazy religious fanatics; their violence is irrational, absolutist and divisive.

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.

Both are irrational... religion, which is force fed to Americans from childhood, creates the mental / emotional conditions for other irrationalities like fear and hatred of people who are different in some way.

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.

That would actually be one of the kinder ways to describe a person who believes that other people deserve to be punished for ever just because they don't share the same irrational belief system.

And yet, the song can contrarily suggest that he would be wrong to adopt a dismissive attitude towards his love for her — no, it means something deep to him, and that could mean that the love is in some way right — what his apparently irrational eros is telling him is that she is capable of being complementary to him in some special way, and so he should stick it out.

You are welcome to disagree, and you are free to do so in whatever manner you choose; if your response is some type of irrational, hate - driven attack on someone else's way of life, though, you really are contributing more to my point then your own.

As I have pointed out, conservative Evangelicals (but not liberals) are those who can be accused of «picking and choosing» in an irrational way.

He accepted responsibility for the victory of reason within his own soul in a way that implied an inner transcendence over the irrational and rational forces alike.

These essays too show remarkable staying power, particularly the provocatively titled «On the Political Stupidity of the Jews,» his own exploration of the familiar puzzle of American Jews» fierce, visceral, but in many ways irrational and self - defeating commitment to liberalism, and his suggestions for a possible way forward in that regard» an effort to formulate a sound and well - grounded tradition of specifically Jewish political thought.

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

Wimber defined power evangelism as «a presentation of the gospel that is rational but that also transcends the rational (though it is in no way «irrational» or anti-rational).»

Speaking about the decision to tackle his fear of heights for the stunt, Dr John added: «Isn't it a fairly irrational fear in a way because you know that everything that is around about you is going to hold you.

By way of contrast, Rolt insisted that this way of conceiving of divine power is «immoral, irrational and anti-Christian,» from which have sprung some of the most egregious travesties in the Christian faith.50

believing everything that extremely old with no way to verify the info, and no evidence since that any of the claims are true, is irrational.

Any way you look at it, this is a mysterious world, but of all the ways in which the mystery can be stated none seems to me so improbable, so irrational, as to say there is no God, no Mind or Purpose in the universe, and all that is beautiful and right here is the accidental result of physical atoms going it blind.

Having the burgeoning powers of manhood but little experience of what it means to be a man, his behavior ranges in crazy mixed - up ways from the most irrational stupidity to brilliant sublimity.

To be more specific, in the actual practices of the Evangelical community in North America, there is an over-commitment to Scripture in a way that is false, irrational, and harmful to the cause of Christ.»

My husband and son have an irrational fear of being sticky (true story), so there is no way they'd eat these with their hands.

What people are not getting, is that WE ALL KNOW ARSENE IS NOT CUT OUT ANYMORE FOR THIS JOB, but it is the way in which fans are wanting to handle the situation which is totally irrational and simply not practical — because like I said Arsene deserves more than a bunch of hooligans shouting for his head.

Bale and the rest of the Real Madrid squad have got it way better than they've any right to, completely irrespective of whatever supporter tantrums and irrational expectations they might endure.

Thinking errors, simply put, are patterns of thinking that are inaccurate or irrational; they influence our feelings and behavior, often in negative ways.

The potential threat posed by Iran's claimed peaceful nuclear programme (going anything over 20 % uranium enrichment, defined as the «Red Line» by the Obama administration), should also be understood in the context of the unintended consequences of the norms and rules (of the regime itself) and the ways in which nations both «good» and «rogue», «rational» and «irrational» have come to define their own rights and obligations within a nuclear regime.

Despite the many obviously irrational ways we behave, social scientists have only just begun to systematically document and understand this central aspect of our nature.

«Who knows — but it really colors the way that they look at this issue, and leads to an irrational dismissiveness about prospects for meeting much or all of our projected future energy demand through renewable energy.»

A realistic tree of life can also change the way researchers look at more theoretical questions, such as how in the world such a supposedly wasteful and irrational process as sex evolved.

There is nothing the slightest bit «irrational» about my comments, I'm just way ahead of your curve.

Given the widely known challenges to accurate assessment of teachers using value - added methods, it is my further belief that the absence of any way for a particular teacher to challenge a VAM score on an individualized basis is irrational.

It could be used as a way to study the pedagogy of teaching the Pythagorean Theorem or irrational numbers.

The way we fund all of our public school students is unfair and irrational.

It might seem irrational, but one of the best ways that authors have found to gain popularity and profitability for their eBooks has been to, well, give them away.

It opposes the classical way of thinking and views criminal behavior as irrational and may be due to a biological, environmental, physical, psychological problem or disorder.

The irrational part is thinking that dividends are the only good way to generate income from stocks, are the primary source of superior performance in any given period, or that dividends somehow magically convey stability to your portfolio that's not available from other types of stock allocations.

One of the biggest ways we can improve as investors is to gain control over some of our irrational biases.

One thing for sure, when you consider how irrational the discussion is with people trying to justify wiping out the tax advantages of a mortgage you realize that these politicians are desperate and they will lie and steal freedom if it gets in the way of their agenda.

You absolutely want to look for these periodic occasions when the person on the other side of the trade is acting in a way that is irrational.

The debt snowball helps encourage irrational behavior instead of teaching people to act in a mathematically sound way.

What's particularly fascinating about all of this — the way TNR supporters are made out to be irrational (if not mentally ill — as in a letter to Conservation Biology last year, when several TNR opponents, including four contributors to «The Impact of Free Ranging Cats,» compared TNR to hoarding [28]-RRB--- is just how emotionally charged the appeal of TNR opponents is.

I've comment on another one of your comments, but now that I've seen more of your comments, all which a based on your personal experience and bias it's quite comical to see you call someone else's comment emotional and irrational unless you are specifically commenting on party of the comment «uncastrated dogs father lots and lots of pups» because the rest of the comment is quite the opposite, they are way too many factors at play too suggest that neutering causes behavior problems

ps fans have been in the mud long after ps3 realease right along with 360 fans, the 1 year to 7 is laughable I could easily show soooooo much trolling from ps fans all last gen just as easily as you could show some from Xbox fans so just stop the BS, especially when this very site by any rational person would be admittedly skewed positively towards ps, which is fine because maybe that's just how popular the brand is but it also bleeds over to there being way more fanatical, irrational fanboys of the ps type on this site.

Very few of the female painters who've won long - term careers have painted in expressionistic or more unleashed ways, deploying high - keyed color or ropy surfaces, or painting in ways that strike people as irrational, out of control, or non-cerebral.

In «Passing for White, Passing for Black», you write: «I've learned that there is no «right» way of managing the issue of my racial identity, no way that will not offend or alienate someone, because my designated racial identity itself exposes the very concept of racial classification as the offensive and irrational instrument of racism it is.»

He acknowledges emotion in the process of storytelling, and exposes ways in which irrational feelings or inaccurate memories might even affect larger political and social interactions.

This work is not abstracted from reality in the way that some abstract painters start with particular objects or landscapes; rather, Egan refuses to begin with a plan, relying instead on, in his words, «an unconscious recognition of my surroundings, digesting and transferring this complexity into a cascade of recognizable but irrational space» in a process that begins with marks as a record of «natural movements.»