Sentences with phrase «magical thinking which»

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.

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The problems in this thread are: — god doesn't exist — the bible is a fraud — Christians are literally heathens even though they seem to think it is some magical word with which to zap atheists

You said «The reality is that Atheists post on a Belief Blog because it is a place to challenge the conceptions of Religion which we feel are a detriment to human society by proporting magical thinking»

And then I had the thought of going green, which is what we always like to do, but this was a little different because it's that magical green month of March.

All of my four kids started solids at different times and most of them started a lot later than 6 months old, which I always thought was some «magical» age when kids wanted solids.

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a powerful, epic tale of forbidden love, based on the acclaimed # 1 best seller, in which an idealistic young man finds his destiny in a magical place filled with adventure, wonder and great danger... I don't know about you gals but I think that is a recipe for awesomeness.

Part of this has to do with what's called magical thinking, which is the same phenomenon that makes a two - year - old insist on only using a pink spoon (because food won't taste as good with another utensil) or results in her refusing baths since she is quite certain that children can disappear down that drain.

All of this governor's magical thinking — with this scheme and so many others that have flopped over the past seven years — is designed to avoid the obvious: New York needs to cut taxes, which I will do as governor.»

But all we get here is the most blithe and moronic kind of «let's put on a show» magical thinking, in which ripping up the union contract and wresting control of the school from the bureaucrats becomes an end in itself, and what happens later is shrouded in the mists of an imaginary libertarian paradise.

which I think was a huge element of evo's own best drivers cars of all time feature about ten years ago including that magical old fashioned bonus called steering feel, those with it did exceptionally well... please evo, you are a magazine written by drivers for drivers.

I think Harry Potter presents a magical world in which most problems disappear.

Although Nicole Krauss's three books to date would not be classified as magical realism (a style, according to Wikipedia, wherein, «normal occurrences... are presented in a straightforward manner, which allows the «real» and the «fantastic» to be accepted in the same stream of thought») there is in her books an element of the magic that exists in everyday life.

«Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Beyond the High Blue Air is a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.»?

The idea of stealing another writer's words or trying to discredit them or falsifying reviews or trying to have people write fake reviews of my work sounds crazy to me, but I am guilty of highlighting the parts of the PW review that I liked most about my most recent book; it was a mixed review bc the reviewer thought the novel had too many coincidences / was too neatly wrapped up at the end, but that's one of my signatures, I think, now that I've written three books, two published, and one in the works, so I'm actually proud of the strange kismet, sometimes magical occurrences that happen in my work because they also happen in my life, and that's what this whole post is about: about being true to oneself, which includes a moral code, a writers and human code of ethics.

There are 8 main sites of the Mayan ruins that are still standing today, namely: Tikal — a c. 700 AD city in Guatemala Caracol — another city except from c. 500 AD and situated in Belize Chichén Itzá — a monument and center for pilgrimage located in Mexico Tulum — a coastal Mayan site present until c. 1200 AD Kabah — a ruin with elaborate and intricate carvings on the wall which was used from c. 800 AD to c. 900 AD Palenque — another site located in Mexico thought to be magical, present from c. 600 AD to c. 700 AD Coba — a partially excavated network of roads and pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico Uxmal — the most extravagant and complex of all eight Mayan sites, built shortly before c. 1000 AD.

I think this is a really good move on From Software's part since it maximizes player interaction, which is where some of the most magical moments in Souls games come from.

When you think of Japanese role - playing games other - worldly fantasy settings usually come to mind, filled with behemoths which you defeat with your magical armoury.

Think: documentation of handmade boats navigating the waters surrounding New York City, interactive mythological topographies, ephemera from a «magical» bus tour of suburban New Jersey (which included a visit to the basement couch where the facilitator lost his virginity), subway improvement gestures, and much more.

Following on from the 2014 Extinction Marathon which presented environmental and human crises facing the world today (co-curated with Gustav Metzger) and the 2015 Transformation Marathon, which proposed ways of identifying and effecting change in the face of increasing complexity, the 2016 Miracle Marathon focused in on ritual, repetition and magical thinking to consider ways in which the imaginary can not only predict, but also play a part in affecting long - term futures.

In «Magical Thinking» these six artists present images which thrust the viewers back in time to their childhoods where they recall such similar instances of creative denial or solution.

Gallery Rene Mele is pleased to present the upcoming group exhibition «Magical Thinking» which opens on Friday June 13, 2014 from 6 to 8 PM at 4o East 75th Street in Manhattan.

Gallery Rene Mele is pleased to present the upcoming group exhibition «Magical Thinking» which opens on Friday June 13,...

«Magical Thinking» explores the supernatural powers and forces which are assigned to many things seen as symbols dominated by the belief that one's own thoughts, wishes or desires can influence the external world.

Psychoanalysts connect folklore traditions and superstitions to the idea of magical thinking by investigating series of actions or events which are fundamentally unrelated.

There is something gloriously self - referential about playing the straw man card in a post in which you, for no apparent reason, explicitly re-interpret «quite conceivable» to mean «kind of likely», then call it «magical thinking», quote a psych text in case we don't know what magical thinking is and dismiss it out of hand.

Robert, if my wishes were granted and my magical thinking made real, the world in which we reside would of necessity be different from the way it is, so as to be made capable of supporting our unsustainable consumption, production and propagation activities, the colossal scale of which is threatening to engulf the Earth in these early years of Century XXI.

But these «tend your own garden» suggestions either ensure that your actions have next to no impact, or else tap into a magical - thinking mindset that personal - footprint change can drive mass shifts in consciousness — a notion which anyone spending time in the regional mega-mall can peg as extremely wishful thinking.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

Your denial that these facts can possibly be due to anything other than the magical gas CO2 shows a depth of delusory thinking which might indicate a psychotic condition.

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

Which is simply magical thinking run amok.