Sentences with phrase «known as civilization»

You've already provided yourself with the geographical solution to the problem of other people, the problem typically known as civilization.

Chris Colbert (86) and all those who use the argument that climate has always changed naturally, and that there is no «ideal» stable climate, overlook, deliberately or naively, a very important fact: Earth's climate has in fact been remarkably stable for the past 10000 years, long enough that every single thing we know as civilization, including agriculture and all technology beyond simple stone and bone tools, has been developed during that period.

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Religion will likely be the end of civilization as we know it.

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

I am unpersuaded by the argument that the designated - hitter rule threatens civilization as we have known it.

You know the world is an amazing creation of God if you don't spend your time trying to demand that God exists today as he did to a civilization 2000 years ago.

If we don't do something about nuclear proliferation and do it now, civilization as we know...

(Of course, as we all know, they will say that they do not want to be realists, for to be so would mean acquiescing in the very things they reject in our rationalistic civilization.)

We follow one who preached that civilization as we know it is passing away, whether we get a mutually verifiable arms agreement or not.

If we don't do something about nuclear proliferation and do it now, civilization as we know it is gone.»

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

The sacrificial victim of «civilization as we know it,» he bids us to let go.

Up they went, convinced that «civilization as we know it» was passing away.

These folk contested «civilization as we know it,» and paid for their beliefs with their lives.

From the standpoint of geographic extent, new movements of marked vitality, and effects upon civilization the world around, this was, as we have suggested, the greatest century which the influence of Jesus has thus far known.

The original canon of Western Civilization was the collection of documents known to Christians as the Old and New Testaments.

The church understood as the repository of religious consciousness, or as the apex of «Christian» civilization, or as the private club of moral rectitude, could no longer be the place where the thunder and lightning of God's grace breaks through to human beings.

The fascinating story of how medieval Irish monks» practices of reading and writing, along with their efforts to teach others to do the same, saved Western civilization as we know it.

Quite the contrary, their motivation seems to be a kind of Rousseauian primitivism: no civilization can dare be regarded as superior to any other on the globe, no matter how remarkable its achievements or beneficial its legacy.

No, for this future is simply the historical future, the region of transcendence for biological realities and cultural ones such as the growth of nations and civilizations, but not the region for spiritual transcendence.

Writing at a time when the signs of globalization were not nearly as obvious as they are today, he foresaw a process he called «planetization», by which «peoples and civilizations reach such a degree either of frontier con - tact or economic interdependence or psychic communion that they can no longer develop save by the interpenetration of one another».3 Teilhard de Chardin wholly identified with the traditions of the Christian west, yet his visionary mind was able to lift the Christian themes and symbols out of their traditional usage and re-interpret them.

course: «East Asian Civilization,» known to undergraduates as «rice paddies.»

Something like this, too, is what we need today — to have a song in our hearts as we see the United Nations crumbling, peace retreating to an improbable future, and God alone knows what awful fate in store for us and our proud civilization.

Here, it seemed, was the quintessence of Western civilization, which we had taken for centuries as our standard of comparison, and suddenly we realized that the new Rome was no more a match for the barbarian than the ancient Rome had been.

As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how ConstantinianAs he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinianas a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinian!)

I find it hard to understand why something with such importance, such a good message and something that has driven and molded civilization as we know it today is frowned upon by people.

- Like when many believers drone on and on about how gay marriage will mark the end of civilization as we know it?

When people stop worrying about the «after - life» and an invisible guy in the sky, we can advance more as a civilization and reach new heights and maybe even GET ALONG with each other, more people will live their life knowing this is the only life you get.

, we would be near the end of civilization as we know it.

It isn't just Christian scriptures, but writings from all cultures and traditions that foretell a disastrous end to civilization as we know it.

stayed with the Roman / Greek stuff, you were no different from any ancient civilization and thus would not have risen as the superpower.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

This political expression has appeared in its most blatant form in Western civilization in a country known to its people as «Mother Russia.»

This political point of view appeared in its most blatant form in Western civilization in a country known to its people as the «Fatherland.»

But, as Pope Paul said on his visit to India in 1964, Christians also have «the duty of knowing better» the hundreds of millions of fellow human beings who are Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, or followers of other faiths, «recognizing all the good they possess, not only in their history and civilization, but also in the heritage of moral and religious values which they possess and preserve.

and he works towards an answer by an inductive study of the rise of various civilizations so far as they are known to us.

For as was prophesied in Daniel 11v39, and in Moses 32v17, of our future generations doing wrong, and idols not known to the forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that we will do, and here we are today in this so called civilization of mayhem; in difference, greed, poverty, war, hate, etc...

A more lofty and idealistic one is that most of us, as Jews, hardly know ourselves or have a sense of Judaism that is not in some way tied up with our experience as cultured members of Western Civilization, which is Christianized not only in an explicit religious sense but also in the pathos and longing of its secular consciousness, as exemplified in its literature and art.

It is where the tiny crinkled yellow - brown aborigines known as Bushmen have made their last stand against encroaching civilization, speaking in the clucking tongue of turkeys, eating lizards, hunting with bows and arrows and enduring the probing of fascinated anthropologists.

«It's the end of civilization as we know it!»

Of course, that you know the true character of a person, when in crisis, is as true now as it was in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel in which the best of British public school boys (metaphor for the best of western civilization) descended into feral brutes, just because they were marooned in a strange environment for a few days.

is not at all clear, and laws may be «void for vagueness» - we as citizens have a right to know when we cross a line — and that is long before the grand jury tells, or alleges to us, that is, into a coercive plea bargaining system — and we might want to let our Peers decide that, as in «Trial By Jury Of,» western - civilization - foundation department

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Khipus are mostly known by archaeologists as the records of the Inka civilization, the vast multiethnic empire that encompassed as many as 18 million people and nearly 3,000 miles along the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

Bioengineer Drew Endy shares his vision to reprogram biology as a precision manufacturer — and possibly change civilization as we know it.

Horton said, a shift of that magnitude «would destroy our civilization as we know it.»

Perhaps being as powerful as to exist on a higher plane beyond the constraints of our physical universe would mean such a civilization already regularly «jumps» from universe to universe at will — they are no longer bound by any sort of rules that we are.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

[1] The kingdoms of Napata and Meroe formed one and the same civilization, known as the «Kush kingdom» by their ancient Egyptian neighbors.

- Matter by Iain M. Banks, set in a fantastically advanced civilization known simply as the Culture.