As long as there are people with the values who yearn for a different
kind of society then you're going to have a party that tries to put those values into practice.»
Not exact matches
My belief is that ultimately we will go towards a cashless
society, and
then there will just be more and more transactions to enable all possible
kinds of transactions, including peer - to - peer.
Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think ab
Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a
society,
then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think ab
then the next question is about things like purpose and those
kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.
Then,
of course, we'll have the governments forcing new
kinds of systems or policy changes such as helicopter money to push more money into our
society and that's when we start to get into hyperinflation.
And your saying that if religion didn't exist,
then we would have some
kind of utopian
society?
God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert,
then moved into a moveable tabernacle (
kind of like an Old Testament RV),
then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave
of the Holy
of Holies,
then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years,
then came back to the temple,
then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with
society's outcasts and wedding attenders,
then moved on to some public forums,
then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.
And yet, if same - sex marriage is to be truly equal to natural marriage in the eyes
of society and the law,
then all the rights and privileges
of marriage — including those involving the procreation and rearing
of children — must in principle belong to both
kinds of marriage, irrespective
of the motives impelling a couple toward marriage or whether, once married, they exercise these rights and privileges.
The differences between the
kinds of things in nature
then go back to the different contrasts, repetitions, divisions, or modes
of integration involved in the chains
of prehensions by which actual occasions make up
societies with different defining characteristics.
If, instead
of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the
kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language
of «rights» —
then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in
society at large.
For anyone who has trouble distinguishing between the two
kinds of regimes, I suggest spending time in both Hong Kong and the Philippines, and
then compare which place does better by those at the bottom
of society: the so - called dog - eat - dog laissez - faire economy, or Asia's largest Catholic nation.
Personal religion,
then, is not in any ultimate sense personal, but is the product
of a certain
kind of society, which, like all other
kinds of society, imposes itself on individuals.
Hence, insofar as instantiations
of Spirit, namely, ontological totalities
of various
kinds up to and including the universe as a whole, are structured like Whiteheadian
societies,
then absolute knowledge such as Hegel envisions as a result
of his own philosophical system is metaphysically impossible.
But for Whitehead, nature's «problem» can be solved only if two mutually - dependent
kinds of emergences are occurring: (a) more complex
societies of occasions must emerge if there is to be (b) the emergence
of higher - grade individual occasions which
then are the final loci
of actuality and value.
When you have that
kind of society, there are all
kinds of issues that come up,» adding that: «And
then we have the addition
of social media.
[3] If Brown is also to include Nelson Mandela, who arguably made his name as much by his actions before gaining political power than after,
then a discussion
of political activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst or, perhaps even more so, Eleanor Roosevelt who successfully campaigned towards removing, or at least alleviating, a different
kind of apartheid from their respective
societies would have also made a welcome addition.
Responding to Reddit CEO's Yishan Wong's declaration that the site was «a new
kind of government» devoted to free speech (but
then admitting that it deleted a sub-reddit devoted to sharing nude pictures
of celebrities by citing existing DMCA notices), Sarah Jeong writes, «What
kind of society accepts that copyright is a more compelling dictates that sexual victimization and invasion
of privacy?»
But
then it's like... if
society's norms are disordered...
then... I don't know, how am I meant to change
kind of things?»
«That's
kind of our [
society's] approach to medicine: Wait'til you get sick or wait'til you get hurt, and
then we'll treat you.
Not good art because they seldom have anything to say about the
society that spawned them (and because the directors
of these messes are generally assclowns) and not good travelogues, either, what these little straight - to - home penny dreadfuls tend to be are tired variations on the same quasi-Christian mythos, tarted up with surprisingly good production values and the
kind of cheap thrills that kept EC Comics,
then Hammer Films,
then Italian giallos, in business.
Does anyone really believe
society will calmly stand by as we head towards 3 °C,
then 4 °C, staring economic and social collapse in the face while we focus on cheap energy as some
kind of overriding objective?
2 Jan: UK Telegraph: Christopher Booker: Our spoiled, emasculated, de ‑ spiritualised
societies in the West are in terminal decline In 2015 we witness a rare geopolitcal power shift — and in the face
of every
kind of new external challenge the leaders
of the EU and the USA have never looked weaker or more bemused We
then saw that even more meaningless «non-binding» deal in Paris, supposed to save the world from global warming.
What is key is that we understand that in a highly mobile and autonomous post-industrial
society, we need to find easy ways for people to find connection and relationship with other people whom they may never have met, the literal equivalent
of the evangelical service that is conducted several times every day, where people can come and go as they want, with child care and dry cleaning and whatever else liberals need to integrate that
kind of regular activity into their everyday lives, and
then we need to find ways to deepen those ties and connections, in ways that support and affirm secular values and personal autonomy.
If the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case influences the dominant narrative that pops into our minds when we address the
kinds of questions Prof. Thompson poses,
then it may pervert our perspective as a
society of potential jurors.
Glass,
then, is
kind of a legal Rorschach test: where you stand on his admissibility likely depends on your view
of the possibility
of human redemption, rehabilitation and the role
of the lawyer in
society.
But if they do not provide them with a full opportunity for acquiring the
kinds of difficult - to - acquire - but - vitally - important skills that are demonstrated by well - educated lawyers,
then law schools will have cheated students out
of an incredibly valuable educational opportunity, will perhaps have limited their possible lifetime achievements, and will have deprived our
society of a group
of influential critical thinkers so essential to a flourishing democracy and a global marketplace.
These requirements impose the burden
of determining continuity
of existence
of their native title rights and interests upon the applicants at least by inference or extrapolation from various
kinds of evidence... If by accident
of history and the pressure
of colonisation there has been dispersal
of a
society and an interruption
of its observance
of traditional law and custom,
then the most sincere attempts at the reconstruction
of that
society and the revival
of its law and custom seem to be
of no avail.
Also, I wanted to share with you that expectant mothers in crisis pregnancies in the past when I was born didn't have any choice about open / closed adoption, closed adoption was the only
kind of adoption that was done and it was really sad for the birthmoms back
then... sometimes they were not treated very well by their families, agencies and
society.