Sentences with phrase «leads human thoughts»

Now although Christianity leads human thoughts and aspirations far beyond the limitations of this present stage of existence, and is thus in a sense an other - worldly religion, it is also incurably earthly.

That's why, in this regard, I trust my deeper intuitions... it's lead human thought this far, why abandon it now?

Not exact matches

Kurzweil has appeared in Inc. magazine numerous times (he let us scan his brain and told us how to predict the future) and is the leading advocate of a school of thought called the singularity, which says, essentially, that humans will eventually turn into robots and live forever.

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

The Human Resource Learning Partnership is an intensive two week learning consortium led by Dave Ulrich and is designed for HR teams from forward - thinking companies around the world.

And I think I don't know anybody who's had a generally better record than Berkshire in judging business quality and the human quality, the people who are going to lead the business after it's acquired.

Its high - profile work on driverless cars has also led to a race in the automobile industry to create vehicles that can operate without humans, adding to concerns that some classes of manual labour once thought to be beyond the reach of machines might eventually be automated.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

By the way could the «BrainWashing» be from the uses of those Funny Shampoos and Products which are said to contain so many bad chemicals that could lead to cancers??! Any way I thought brainwashed one's are less human affectionate, rather acting as Robots in many ways so better check who does appear like that...!

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

Dr Thevathasan presents a lucid history of the thought of Freud and Jung, and the circumstances which led them to develop their often bizarre theories of human behaviour.

Is it really likely that when the Romans heard Paul's words about creation being «subjected to futility» in 8:20 they «could well have thought about how imperial ambitions, military conflicts, and economic exploitation had led to the erosion of the natural environment throughout the Mediterranean world, leaving ruined cities, depleted fields, deforested mountains, and polluted streams as evidence of this universal human vanity»?

The term growth had the obvious difficulty of leading one to think of «created goods» rather than of «creative good» (the distinction made in The Source of Human Good) as the supreme value — Wieman's idea of idolatry.

I think that this view our our human interrelationships leads us forcefully to think of persons as containing powerful qualities that we can access and enjoy, pick up and put down, almost like deities in a polytheistic cosmos.

Perhaps we can never manage perfectly such a juggling act, but we need to try — to think of human beings both as bodies, for whom the relentless succession of hours and days leads surely to the grave, and as God - aimed spirits, whose every moment is lived in the presence of the Eternal.

Even more disastrously, it may mean that the central function of ministry is felt to be a discourse on Sunday morning, containing a lead, three points, and a thought for next week, not to exceed twenty - five minutes in length, set forth in a tone any self - respecting human being would reject if approached privately.

This is the phenomenology, particularly as practiced by Max Scheler, of which Wojtyla became a student, and which would in time lead him into novel, but orthodox, expositions of sexual ethics (Love and Responsibility), and into even more novel, though no less orthodox, expositions of the human person as the self - possessed locus of action and thought (The Acting Person).

Kierkegaard's Reflections on Violence We turn now to a consideration of the way in which Kierkegaard's thought can help us to understand the basic motives which lead human beings toward violence.

Perhaps paradoxically, then, the turn inward leads to thinking even of human lives as would an external observer.

Indeed, the new virtues of personal freedom and human equality being promoted by the Enlightenment led to the French Revolution, followed by much social change and radically new thought in Europe in the 19th century.

Again, a first thought would lead one to expect little insight into human nature from the physical sciences.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

We read the t.itle «Son of God» and think literal son of a god, like the Greeks would, the culture that Paul catered to, but the Jews used that ti.tle for either all of Israel, or her (entirely human) leaders, especially the messiah who was to lead Israel into a new age, yes?

I can agree with Jeremy's original statement, «I believe that God did lead human authors to write the words of Scripture, though not in a way that would override their unique thought pattern, vocabulary, or idiom.»

I believe that God did lead and human authors to write the words of Scripture, though not in a way that would override their unique thought pattern, vocabulary, or idiom.

In order to convince the confused and alienated masses, we must be able to demonstrate that Catholic social thought treads the middle path between theocracy — the ambition of strict Islamist ideology — where the spiritual authorities simply subsume the powers of the State, and the atheist secularist agenda, which eventually leads to the State assuming God - like powers, yet without the compassion and respect for human freedom that is characteristic of the true God of Love.

Men and women have been condemned, rejected, and led to think of themselves as the worst of sinners, whereas they ought to have been welcomed, accepted, and treated as human beings exactly like their heterosexual brothers and sisters, the one difference being the direction of their sexual drive.

The suggestion that the entities in nature are to be thought of as belonging to the same category of existence as human experience would have little value if it did not lead to further explanation.

If love as normal human concern dominates our lives, all too often it will be ourselves who are its object, and the long and tortuous process, whereby ethical thought and feeling have led us beyond preoccupation with ourselves, may be undone.

I think jesus woudl be upset (given his Jewish roots and beliefs) that would be seen as anything other than a human, born to the house of David in the Jewish tradition of King David come to lead his people spiritually and or politically.

It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.

Humanism leads to an arrogance that thinks it can impose itself on the average human being for its own benefit, and tends to lead to a new kind of secular dictatorship.

I think sometimes we humans are led to believe we have nothing special to offer God.

Thus in Mark's Gospel heavenly vision and human uncertainty are bound together: Jesus was the Messiah and could not deny this even during his earthly life; but he wanted his status kept secret, for — this is manifestly the leading thought in Mark — only thus is to be explained the fact that these men, his contemporaries and fellow countrymen, finally delivered him to the Romans to be crucified.

People who think their few years of experience, and access to human knowledge are enough to dismiss the thousands of years of culture and religious beliefs that accommodated development of morality and led man to this democratic point need to challenge their pride and open their mind.

Plus it can lead to misguided thinking, such as women are «naturally» more monogamous, and once we get into what humans are «naturally» or «biologically» geared toward, we are entering dangerous territory, especially when it comes to things like marriage, reproduction, gender and sex.

Monash University - led research has shown that the evolution of human teeth is much simpler than previously thought, and that we can predict the sizes of teeth missing from human fossils and those of our extinct close relatives (hominins).

Lead author, Dr Penny Spikins, senior lecturer in the Archaeology of Human Origin at the University of York, said: «Our findings suggest Neanderthals didn't think in terms of whether others might repay their efforts, they just responded to their feelings about seeing their loved ones suffering.»

«It's often thought that kids don't do well because they're dumb, and there's nothing we can do about it,» says lead study author Clancy Blair, associate professor of human development and family studies at Pennsylvania State University.

«I don't think there are any human patients who walk backwards,» says Esther Becker of the University of Oxford, who led the team that investigated the mice (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0810599106).

What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists think about human personality.

«This might explain why people sometimes say things before they think,» said Avgusta Shestyuk, a senior researcher in UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and lead author of a paper reporting the results in the current issue of Nature Human Behavior.

But the fossils from the Cerutti Mastodon site (as the site was named in recognition of field paleontologist Richard Cerutti who discovered the site and led the excavation), were found embedded in fine - grained sediments that had been deposited much earlier, during a period long before humans were thought to have arrived on the continent.

Because most animal species have integrins, Kandel thinks that experiments on fruit fly memory could lead to insights into human memory.

Physician David Nathan, director of the diabetes center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, notes in an email message that «what is ironic here is that [free radicals are] generally thought to be bad in human diabetes,» because they lead to dysfunction in the cells that make insulin and vascular complications.

This suggests the line leading to Neanderthals arose around 1 million years ago and the divergence of humans took place much earlier than previously thought.

As with other domesticated crops, it is thought that human migrations helped lead to the emergence of subspecies and hybrids with a consequence — reduced fertility --- but prized for their delectable fruits with high flesh and low seed content.

Lead researcher Dr Anna Wilkinson from the School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK, said: «The ability to learn through imitation is thought to be the pinnacle of social learning and long considered a distinctive characteristic of humans.