Are they, too, oblivious to
the limits of their vision, working with an incomplete understanding of some fundamental aspect of nature?
As a graduate student, I began using advanced optical techniques to study
the limits of vision, and it was during that time that I realized how much our understanding of vision could be improved by studying how it is altered because of disease.
To be sure, his story is extraordinary, thrilling, and tragic, familiar as old World War II movies and also terribly and apparently forever timely, focused as it is on torture and
the limits of vision that might inform it.
Good intentions abound in this world, but
the limits of our vision sow the seeds of terrible destruction.
Whereas the Abstract Expressionists referenced
the limits of vision, Como's work in Black unmistakably heralds the infinite potentiality of vision.
Paradoxically, although they represent an acceptance of limits they also challenge limits, particularly with regard to
the limits of vision.
Ironically, it was the success of his own vision that demonstrated
the limits of that vision.
All three classes of medical certificates allow the pilot to wear glasses provided the correction is within the prescribed
limits of vision.
Not exact matches
It gives you an added level
of control and independence, as you can follow your own
vision (within your financial
limits) and not be bound to the opinions
of investors.
Once you secure that
vision concretely, it is much easier to focus because you hold yourself accountable to a bigger framework that keeps you on track and
limits the ability
of distractions or failures to throw you off.
The
vision for the fund is consistent with the Koch brothers» ideology
of limited government and regulations, which is why Churi and Tochman said they chose the seminar as their launching grounds.
The company's co-founder, Khalil Tawil, declined to discuss specifics on the company's next move, saying only that Umi Kitchen is «more sure than ever that our
vision of empowering the local cook will be realized,» and that the next iteration
of the company «will not be
limited New York City.»
You have to be creative in your use
of limited resources, have the ability to catch a potential investor's eye - especially if you're looking further than their circle
of friends and family for funding - and see things that other people can't, including having faith in your own
vision when others may not.
The medical devices unit saw operational sales increases
of 3.2 %, but without the recent acquisition
of J&J's surgical
vision business, domestic sales would have fallen, and worldwide operational sales growth would have been
limited to just over 1 %.
A growing number
of limited partners seems to buy into their
vision of writing early, $ 250,000 checks to fledgling startups that want to head to California — as well as giving them a place to crash for a while.
«Like many founders in this space, to continue to grow you need capital, and the thing that I really respect about those guys is that they also know the
limits of what they are able to do to get to the
vision they are trying to achieve.
Thankfully, the nebulous
vision and
limited business experience
of most
of the issuers have not hampered their ability to raise capital.
Most significantly, the game developer is seeking to impose a voting
limit of 20 %; the aim
of which, it states, is to encourage a more equitable share purchase price from any possible suitor and mitigate the risk
of «chaos and potential confrontation» should it be targeted by a strategic investor whose goals conflict with the company's
vision and growth strategy.
The absence
of a constitutional right, and thus
of a judicial remedy, does not dictate a narrow or
limited vision of a moral society.
This is a
vision of limited government.
That biblical
vision helped form the bedrock convictions
of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment
of divine and natural law; that government was
limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm
of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.
Liberation theology not only promises liberation
of the oppressed, the poor and the marginals
of society, but even liberation from the
limited dreams
of the oppressed for the eternal
vision and dream
of God, his own promised kingdom.
And not only does it promise liberation from present oppression, but even liberation from the
limited dreams
of the oppressed for the eternal
vision and dream
of God, his own promised kingdom.
Such a
vision of Christ warns us against absolutizing our doctrines
of Christ and
limiting the ways
of God to our familiar ways.
We recognize that some societies and cultures have unjustly
limited women's full participation, but biblical, church, and secular history record countless women
of vision and tenacious faith who, through prayer and perseverance, overcame limitations
of every variety to influence the shaping
of human history.
Three children experienced a series
of extraordinary
visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner
of Portugal with
limited access to any knowledge
of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).
Where there are apparent contradictions among philosophers, the goal must be to attain a wider
vision within which the essential truth
of each view can be displayed in its
limited validity.9
It should then be recognized that as an apologetic device its sphere
of relevance is
limited to those whose
vision has been consciously or unconsciously already modified by Christian faith.
Following Wilder's altogether persuasive statement
of the matter, we might say that the parables impart to their hearers something
of Jesus»
vision of the power
of God at work in the experience
of the men confronted by the reality
of his proclamation, and this would be true if we are allowed to stress the «in the experience
of the men confronted...» It is a remarkable and little noted fact that, pace Jüngel, there is only a very
limited number
of parables which are concerned to proclaim the Kingdom
of God per se.
Though the past as inherited sets the realizable
limits and opportunities for the moment's creative power, the eventual creation with all its determinate detail could never have existed nor subsisted before it is created, not even in a primordial
vision of potentialities.
Since World War II, however, only
limited parts
of the church are aroused to sacrificial giving and service by these
visions, and no new
vision has emerged to give focus and direction to the denomination.
This is true even
of Platonism, with its inextirpable dualism, its dialectic
of change and the changeless (or
of limit and the infinite), and its equation
of truth with eidetic abstraction; the world, for all its beauty, is the realm
of fallen
vision, separated by a great chorismos from the realm
of immutable reality.
One example would be Aimee Dorr Leifer's essay entitled «Teaching with Television and Film,» (TTF) published in N. L. Gage's The Psychology
of Teaching Methods, a widely read Yearbook
of the National Society for the Study
of Education.1 Even in this essay, however, Leifer reviews what has been learned from various psychological studies
of television and film narratives, and the
limited range
of the studies
limits the
vision of narrative teaching that she puts forth.
All three modes
of theological discernment are necessary as a corrective to theological
vision's tendency to distort ideologically, to ascribe universal validity to the
limited and particular, and to gloss over ambiguity and tragedy in experience.
It is one thing to put forward a
vision of the
limits of this finite life if we believe that our lives are also touched by and directed toward the infinite God.
But in a secular age in which
visions of human flourishing are no longer
limited to religious belief, other practices — even those that are seemingly private but ultimately public — compete with those
of worship in shaping the desires we follow in pursuit
of the good.
Though he tries to reconcile his religiously grounded
vision with his embrace
of the cultural agenda
of the left, there is a transparent tension in Jackson's politics that surely accounts for his
limited electoral success outside
of the black community.
In Whitehead's
vision there is one overarching entity that prehends every other entity that has concresced; in my
vision there is only the plurality
of actual occasions, each with a
limited perspective.
Being human being we have a
limited knowledge, we experiences impossibilities due to
of our
limited vision, thinking and approach but there is nothing
limited or impossible for the CREATOR.
Finally, there is «a disturbing gap between the college and the larger world... a parochialism... an intellectual and social isolation that reduces the effectiveness
of the college and
limits the
vision of the student» (p. 6).
From within our human history God's
vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively
limited and time - conditioned stories
of promise that serve as the foundation
of our biblical tradition.
He doesn't see it because
of his privilege, because he has always existed in the system which
limits his
vision.
I do like the progressive Christian stance as you describe it — that there may be error in many
of the books
of the bible — but that people, even with our
limited minds, can strive to see a more perfect
vision than what was written.
This is a far more beautiful
vision than the
limited ideology
of Our Faith Story.
But when my desire fastens on anything less than God, it immediately becomes destructive, for that is where desire turns into covetousness, and covetousness will rob my life
of its potential because it will narrow my
vision, depress my
limits, bring me to the edge
of death, violate my purpose in creation, and starve my life to death.
Being constantly reminded on the one hand
of the infinite gap between one's own
limited talents and
vision and the perspective
of Almighty God, and on the other
of the radical equality with which God judges and loves the human race is a healthy counterweight to the flattery
of the world and the smugness that comes with success.
Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having
visions and thoughts
of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though
limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.
While Farley's call for theologia invites an expanded
vision of education beyond a new rearranging
of «ordered» learning, his constructive suggestions, at least thus far, are
limited to revisions
of cognitive learning.
Strategies must not be
limited to the level
of social mechanisms and political devices, but must be aimed at creating a new consciousness, a
vision of a good future powerful enough to open us up to new, more effective ways
of solving our problems.
However the limitation is that the
vision for novelty is so
limited by the assumption
of what the construct can be.