The fair opens Rosie's eyes to a different
kind of existence in a story that's full of humor and history.
Not exact matches
I think this man is EXACTLY the
kind of pope the church needed at this point
in it's
existence.
the abundance
of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive
existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations
of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man
kind than any other culture and people
of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around
in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman
in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands
of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation
of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.
Without pretending to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined to be a vast collection
of existences — things and substances
of various compositions and
kinds — each
of which is what it is, and moves, changes, grows, or decays as it does by reason
of its relation to other things: things existing
in various ways by, and
in some cases, at the expense
of, or on, other things.
One
of Hart's most striking dismissals
of the conflation
of God and the gods is where he defines belief
in «a personal God» or «theistic personalism» as a
kind of «monopolytheism,» which «differs from polytheism... solely
in that it posits the
existence of only one such being.»
In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309
In fact, Whitehead's doctrine
of the causal immanence
of the past
in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309
in the present provides for the
kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy
of nature lead him to demand (The Nature
of Physical
Existence, p. 309).
It is this
kind of experience which perhaps best explains the meaning
of the traditional term «eternal life» — which is now not conceived as an extension
in time
of our personal
existence but as a new dimension
of existence into which one can enter during his natural life.
The same theory suggests that particles can flit
in and out
of existence in a
kind of formless matter, even
in empty space.
Dear brothers and sisters, Blessed John Paul II reminded us that «man is called to a fullness
of life which far exceeds the dimensions
of his earthly
existence, because it consists
in sharing the very life
of God».4 The sexual intimacy
of marriage, the most intimate
kind of human friendship, is a pathway to sharing
in God's own life.
Indeed it is much easier to imagine the souls
of the dead living on
in some new
kind of existence than it is to accept as fact that they have really died.
And it should at once be noted also that as long as such a Church law is
in existence, the character
of its obligation, the possibility
of being excused or dispensed from it, the possibility
of discussing its expediency or the need to change it, the possibility
of knowing oneself not bound by it
in a particular concrete case etc., are
of quite a different
kind from any case
in which an immutable divine commandment is involved.
Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals
of emanation that descend
in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor
of philosophy is one
of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature
of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a
kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals
of one's individual
existence; truth is oblivion
of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.
Michael:
Kind of strange though that you seem to take take personal joy
in believing that your
existence in any form will continue upon your death.
So
in I Corinthians, having asked how the dead are raised, he attempts to answer the question by saying, on the one hand, that there is some
kind of real, though indefinable, continuity between our present bodily mode
of existence and the life beyond death, and, on the other, that there is discontinuity also.
If theology is tested by its ability to shape new
kinds of personal and corporate
existence in the times
in which it lives, then it would seem that radical theology may be able to pass such a test.
In his words: «Perhaps the encounter with the transpersonal
existence of the Buddhist, the recognition
of the serenity and strength it embodies, the experience
of Buddhist meditation, and the study
of Buddhist philosophy will give us the courage to venture into that
kind of radical love which can carry us into a postpersonal form
of Christian
existence» (Cobb 1975, 220).
If
existence is identified with process, which is the questionable move
in all «process philosophies,» all existents can only be analyzed
in terms
of the consequences
of this temporal direction as applied to each particular
kind of existent.
I imagine the neurotransmitters
in my brain as, collectively, an instrument
of perception, a
kind of ear meant to pick upon the purpose
of my
existence.
A feeling
of guilt so out
of proportion with what my life was, is it inscribed
in the nature
of every child born into this world (the moral law within us, according to Kant, attests the
existence of God), or is it a deformation occurring
in infancy, imposed upon the Christians
of my
kind, and which I have not known how to cure?
«This well - preserved item is the only one
of its
kind, and one
of just two surviving fragments from this medieval Caxton book
in existence.
Whitehead's summary delineation
of these types
of «entities,» types or
kinds of «
existence,» is listed in Chapter II, Section 2 of Process and Reality as the «Category of the Ultimate» and the eight «Categories of Existenc
existence,» is listed
in Chapter II, Section 2
of Process and Reality as the «Category
of the Ultimate» and the eight «Categories
of ExistenceExistence.»
the belief on the
existence of the devil was concieved by theologians
of the past thousands
of years, there was no other way
of explaining the bad experiences
of people
in the past because we were not educated yet to the
kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part
of the learning process that God wants us to know,
in pathrotheism, we are part
of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part
of Him, our destiny
in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality
of the universe ahead
of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part
of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point
of not believing the practices
of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part
of their learning process.
His statement that those who participated
in the resurrection
of the dead would be like angels, not marrying or giving
in marriage (Mk 12:25 and parallels), implies a
kind of incorporeal
existence.
In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine bein
In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human
existence; and something is also being said, even
in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine bein
in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as
in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine bein
in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a
kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.
Not only does His imagelessness not prevent Him from manifesting Himself
in the visible world, but it is just this imagelessness which makes His manifestation possible: «He is the history God which He is, only when He is not localized
in Nature; and precisely because He makes use
of everything potentially visible
in Nature, every
kind of natural
existence, for His manifestation.»
Selfhood results from implicit or explicit commitment to a
kind of existence, and is to be understood only
in terms
of that commitment, i.e by laying hold
of the understanding
of existence in terms
of which the self is constituted.
I
kind of think I knew that, but I think it muddies the waters (anyway) and places things
in question which ought not be re-thought, such as the
existence of God.
In conclusion, it should be made clear that the kind of existence ideally embodied in him is reflected also in most of the Greek and Roman philosophy that followed him and looked back to him with special reverenc
In conclusion, it should be made clear that the
kind of existence ideally embodied
in him is reflected also in most of the Greek and Roman philosophy that followed him and looked back to him with special reverenc
in him is reflected also
in most of the Greek and Roman philosophy that followed him and looked back to him with special reverenc
in most
of the Greek and Roman philosophy that followed him and looked back to him with special reverence.
Everything that is actual participates
in the same
kind of existence, what might be called the essence or nature
of actuality.
i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god
of any
kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment
of its creation by its creation... the argument
of free will is an old and tired one... if the
existence was true and the laws put
in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority
of people... believer or not!
The idea
of a change
in God was anathema to classical theists because it was viewed as a
kind of metaphysical virus that infects the whole
of the divine reality; if God is
in any sense contingent, then the very
existence of God is contingent.
He has succeeded
in exhibiting the vacuum or the perversity
of human
existence when it lacks a dynamic trust
in God, but he has failed to show the
kind of trust
in the
kind of God that can deliver us from the enslavement
of self.
12 Even on the assumption
of a Vitalism
of essentially higher principles
of that
kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level
of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into
existence, if we excluded creation
in this case
in the way it is exemplified
in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that
in the generation
of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension
of the entelechial function
of one and the same vital principle to a new position
in space and time within inorganic matter.
Growth
in grace involves maturity
in the
kind of attachment we have to the goods
of this earthly
existence.
That is the contradiction
of mutuality and is the
kind of belonging
in which other persons are taken to be only adjectival to one's own
existence.
However, this «new
kind of reality,» who is Jesus, is an emergent manifestation
of God
in human life emanating from within creation: «a unique manifestation
of apossibility always inherently there for human beings by virtue
of their potential nature being created by God... a new mode
of human
existence emerged through Jesus» openness to God making him a God informed human being» (ibid).
That just sounds like a terribly high price to pay just for the promise
of some
kind of existence after death, and it's a selfish thing to even want
in the first place.
This: that time is the category
of the historical; that because the redemptive power
of God has become time, faith - engendering witness can not be borne to that power save
in a
kind of preaching which is a rhetorical address to men
in their time - determined and time - imprisoned
existence.
In every case these latter kinds of reflexive relationships make for systems in which things and substances endure through their relationship to their own attributes and through their interactions, just as, conversely, the enduring existence of things and substances supports the change of attributes and the interactions of substance
In every case these latter
kinds of reflexive relationships make for systems
in which things and substances endure through their relationship to their own attributes and through their interactions, just as, conversely, the enduring existence of things and substances supports the change of attributes and the interactions of substance
in which things and substances endure through their relationship to their own attributes and through their interactions, just as, conversely, the enduring
existence of things and substances supports the change
of attributes and the interactions
of substances.
The highest can no longer be defined by an exalted
kind of activity; it all turns on the spirit
in which one lives whatever one lives, even the most mundane
existence.»
When we humans were primitive thousands
of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our
existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because
of many synthetic products our
existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a
kind of concern for us to correct some
of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect
of reality,
in the spiritual part
of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness
of our
existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?
They all live
in the valley
of «Cain,» which serves as a symbol for the cursed
kind of existence they must endure.
Kind of like, most atheists would agree that atheism is disbelief
in the
existence of deity, but may take issue if I said atheism is wickedness.
It should also not be privileged above the texts
of other religions, whether
of the Hindu traditions, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Sikhism, and so on, some
of which even reject the
existence of the
kind of God claimed
in Abrahamic religions.
Although we come up with all
kinds of reasons to deny God's
existence he has made his
existence abundently clear through our surroundings and the discoveries
of science... when it comes down to it, most
in the science community don't like the idea
of a creator because then they'd have to answer to that creator... this reality will keep many from accepting the Truth found
in Jesus (absolute Truth)...
However, to Christian faith, the God
of revelation who becomes manifest
in the humiliation
of the cross is disclosed as one who has from the beginning emptied the divine self
of any claims to the
kind of power and presence that might frustrate the openness
of historical
existence.
Because
of their belief
in this gospel
of reconciliation and their experience
of its power, Christians can never accept, as the only
kind of existence open to nations, a state
of perpetual tension leading to «inevitable» war.
According to the Christian witness, faith is the
kind of basic human attitude or disposition that can be formally characterized as an existential self - understanding, or understanding
of our own
existence,
in relation to others and to the encompassing whole
of ultimate reality.
If possibility and actuality could be united to become necessity, they would become an absolutely different essence, which is not a
kind of change; and
in becoming necessity or the necessary, they would become that which alone
of all things excludes coming into
existence, which is just as impossible as it is self - contradictory.
It follows from this hypothesis that the difference between Jesus and Christian believers is not a matter
of degree but one
of kind, i.e., participation
in different structures
of existence.