Sentences with phrase «lives by its myths»

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Avoid being misled by myths that cloud the difficult job of preparing for and living in a financially comfortable retirement.

When I stopped listening and abiding by what the creativity myth was telling me — that only a select few people have the potential to tap into their creative genius — my life took on a whole new meaning.

Belief in myths and legends and a life filled with puerile wish thinking, ruled by threats and promises is an insult to us as a species.

«sensible Austin, we don't know what christ did, we just have partial accounts of his life wriiten decades after the supposed facts in a book written by anybody's guess that contains myths and fairytales.

Austin, we don't know what christ did, we just have partial accounts of his life wriiten decades after the supposed facts in a book written by anybody's guess that contains myths and fairytales.

I don't fear any «invisible man in the sky» who hasn't produced one credible, empirically based instance of his existence in over 3,000 years What is needed is for people to stop living by the rules of myth and mysticism and start living by the realities of the here and now

How then can American men change the basic myth they have been taught to live by?

Professor Wayne Gruhem - His work and life rely on the Pentecost but was the Pentecost even a historical event or simply more myth concocted by Luke to gain members to the newest cu - lt in town??

Professor Wayne Grudem - His work and life rely on the Pentecost but was the Pentecost even a historical event or simply more myth concocted by Luke to gain members to the newest cu - lt in town??

The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.

(CNN)- It's Christmas, but not as you know it: a new book by released this week by Pope Benedict VI looks at the early life of Jesus - and debunks several myths about how the Nativity really unfolded.

Harold Moody has written that the idea of life - span development, given us by psychology, is «the great and indispensable myth of our time.»

Belief in christianity definitely worked against humanity, nad led to many, many more deaths, incalculable lives lost, due to silly superst!tions fed by belief in myths.

At Advent, it begins again: the cycle by which God breaks through the clutter of our lives to announce to us that the Presence is very near, irrupting into our midst, hauling us out of our myths, our half - truths and the ways we have settled for what is religious rather than what is holy, alive and real.

Voragine, The Golden Legend 90 - 91 6 - Ronald Pearsall, The Worm in the Bud, 162 - 63 7 - Encyclopedia Britannica, «Marriage» 8 - Vern Bullough, The Subordinate se.x, 103, 112 9 - Joseph Cambell, Myths to Live By, 95

What is happening is that the whole medium is both reflecting and expressing the myths by which we live.

Some of the assumptions we all maintained about getting older turned out to be myths perpetuated by culture and not the reality we're living in.

According to Shulman «In the myth's earliest version, there is no mention of Parasuraman's divine identity: he is simply the startling, unruly product of a horrifying mixed union... Brahmin and kingly blood flows in almost even quantities in his veins, and he acts accordingly, in a tragic life guided throughout by conflicting impulses.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Reasons given by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).

Atheists rely on the abiogenesis myth (life from non-living matter) which is irrational and unsupported by evidence, scientific and otherwise.

It is a collection of writings that was cobbled together by the Council of Nicea, written by multiple authors, containing collections of parables, stories, fables, myths, rules, laws, petty bigotry, tribal rivalries, lessons in life, morals, etc. that tell a story of a few small bands of nomadic middle easterners.

The idea that non believers have nothing to care about, nothing to live for and no reason to treat their fellow humans decently is a lie perpetrated by those who wish to keep people in bondage to the myth of a loving, yet just deity.

Each one of us understands the world and interprets events from a particular perspective — and that perspective is profoundly shaped by our nonhuman and human environments, culture, socio - politico - economic location, and the myths and symbols that organize and give meaning and significance to our lives.

There is zero supporting evidence for the abiogenesis myth («life from non-life» foundation of atheism), but mountains of evidence for Jewish (Biblical) history, including written records by multiple authors, confirmed people, places, events, timelines, fulfilled prophesies, Israel scattered, Israel restored etc..

Ian Barbour has argued that we no longer live as much by myth as by models.

The Gospel accounts written by unknown authors many decades after the protagonist of their tales supposedly lived incorporate myths from Greek mythology as well as others.

Most likely many myths made by men lived only a short life, but those that survived and spread did so because they readily met the common need of the human society where they flourished.

These myths gave him hope because they told him that in the conflict between death and life, while life was not wholly victorious, yet death was by no means the last word.

[6] Tolkien saw no essential difference between Fairy Story and Myth («the higher and lower mythologies») for «the inhabitants of Olympus and Faerie live by the same life just as in the mortal world do kings and peasants», and this life is breathed into them by their author.

CNN: Pope's book on Jesus debunks Christmas myths It's Christmas, but not as you know it: a new book by released this week by Pope Benedict VI looks at the early life of Jesus — and debunks several myths about how the Nativity really unfolded.

Myth is an expression of man's conviction that the origin and purpose of the world in which he lives are to be sought not within it but beyond it — that is, beyond the realm of known and tangible reality - and that this realm is perpetually dominated and menaced by those mysterious powers which are its source and limit.

Television not only transmits an advertiser's message but it provides the myths by which we live, reveals to us where power lies, and what is of value to the culture and what is not.4 Gregor Goethals amplifies Fore's point.

Your chains are self imposed and imaginary, and your countless rules to live by are extracted from a collection of myths thousands of years old that include slavery and many other detestable acts.

I think if anything this country would be a mormon country since it was founded here... but since mythology is all myths lets all be happy we live in a country where people can believe what they wish and be open about it yet those beliefs based on nothing more then each persons personal «experiences» which are questionable at best have little impact on the government which dictates the laws we live by... WRONG!

Over time, the expression bled into «helpmeet,» an independent term applied exclusively to the role of wives to their husbands, and to this day, the myth that Genesis 2 relegates wives to the status of subordinate assistants persists, as is painfully evidenced by (complementarian) Debi Pearl's book, Created to Be His Help Meet, which has sold more than 200,000 copies since its publication in 2004... (and which I threw across the living room a total of seven times while reading it for research.)

Culture means the available truth claims, explanatory systems, myths, stories, memories, loyalties, dreams, and nightmares by which society lives.

@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how life was first created, and how all life forms as we know them today were achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is in harmony with stasis in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» @hippypoet «See, I don't have to answer where, why, and by whom we are here because I don't need to» @Chad «exactly»

@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how life was first created, and how all life forms as we know them today were achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is in harmony with stasis in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» See, I don't have to answer where, why, and by whom we are here because I don't need to.

The story is related by Richard Nixon himself — a figure who, in Coover's portrayal, has totally accepted the American Myth and sought unflinchingly to become its personification as president, representative of the American Way of Life and symbol of the national psyche.

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

These interrelated myths, created by the selective inclusion or exclusion of particular persons, groups, or power relationships within television's perspective have the capacity to replace the real - life equivalents in people's perception.

Contrary to Liébert's argument, Nietzsche never became a rationalist after the Socratic or the Voltairean manner, and he essentially persisted in his early taste for Dionysian life enriched by myth and comprehended in music.

Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.

In it he found the great myths of the creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human stories, followed by the incomparable religious texts of the New Testament — «He who would save his life must lose it».

The Myth by which they lived was only half understood, only a quarter truly known.

Don't let that cause you to ruin your whole life by believing in myths about religion.

I am not saying anything so trite as that life is fuller when people have myths to live by.

When it becomes really necessary (i.e., for our spiritual life, not for curiosity or controversy) to know whether a passage is rightly translated or a Myth (but of course Myth specially chosen by God from among countless Myths to carry a spiritual truth) or history, we shall no doubt be guided to the right answer.

It changed the course of the whole group.It ran the gamut from someone who said that he didn't believe that Jesus had ever existed and that the bible was just a collection of myths BUT that he believed all the teachings attributed to Jesus and tried to live by them.