Now that online dating is commonplace, we're often forced to judge based on a fixed image - and not only that, but given the speed at which many singles flip through profiles, we also have to
make those judgments more rapidly.
And researchers have also found that having several different people observe teachers helped
make their judgments more consistent over time and mitigate such bias.
Third, I agree that such a writing style, when used sparingly and appropriately,
makes judgments more accessible.
The «problem» — scare quotes usage — with
making judgments more readable is that that this tends to demystify the legal profession.
There's no doubt that this will
make judgments more accessible to citizens, and that's a very important social good.
To help
make this judgment more transparent I give only one example of this naming system.
Not exact matches
While we know there is
more to a person than how he or she looks, in reality, potential clients, colleagues and other individuals you encounter will
make judgments based on your appearance.
This book reminds me of the opportunity we all have to free our minds of fear and
judgment so that we may
make better decisions and be
more creative, with less internal friction and
more in harmony with those around you.
Fear and anxiety cause most to stay small, while
making positive
judgments makes us
more confident.
Wu Youyou, Michal Kosinski, and David Stillwell found that computers using this information can
make more accurate personality
judgments about a person than most friends and family.
They concluded that we
make a snap
judgment in the first two seconds of meeting someone, and we rarely adjust it — even when we get
more information.
Much of the good stuff, including many specific numbers, was filed confidentially with the CRTC, but at least the regulator now has far
more detailed information with which to
make a
judgment.
If you rely on your VC to
make the toughest calls that probably says
more about your own insecurities with tough, unknowable,
judgment calls than about your VC.
Then, you can
make a
more objective
judgment about whether or not those expectations are realistic.
Such an admission
makes clear that
more is at stake on this issue than a new moral
judgment of homosexuality.
And indeed he cautions against any subjective
judgments being
made by or about individuals - «humble spouses follow the Lamb
more easily than proud virgins».
This has led some Lutheran theologians to the conclusion that Christian morality can be little
more than a vague Interimsethik (open - ended decision -
making between Pentecost and the last
judgment).
We must
make judgments about which ones, The greater the potential and the further its realization has been advanced, the
more serious the loss.
Some readings, however, are
more privileged than others and this
judgment will be
made by the relevant community.
When
making snap
judgments, people are
more likely to misperceive a tool to be weapon when it is associated with black men.
But when we bring the principle of growth of persons in loving relationship to the
judgment of marriages where the partners discover that they have
made a mistake and that two people are destroying the possibility of growth in freedom and love, it is no violation of integrity to end the marriage so that each may seek a new life which is
more responsible and genuinely productive.
More often it involves selection of representatives people trust to decide issues that may be too complex for most members of the community to
make sound
judgments.
This is, of course, no
more than we should expect, if we take the New Testament's Paschal triumphalism to heart: «Now is the
judgment of this world, now will the prince of this world be cast out» (John 12:31); «I have overcome the world» (John 16:33); he is «far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion» and all things are put «under his feet» (Ephesians 1:21 - 2); «having spoiled principalities and powers, he
made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it» (Colossians 2:15); «he led captivity captive» (Ephesians 4:8); and so on.
I do not know for certain how we weigh these matters or
make these
judgments, but, speaking only for myself, I must say that Bambi is a
more profound book than Charlotte's Web, probing
more deeply the mystery of mortality.
The passage itself embodies a strongly christological thrust in the phrase «you did it to me,» which
makes Jesus in some sense the referent of all the deeds of mercy done in the world.3
More importantly, Matthew attaches the pericope to a series of exhortations obviously intended to encourage the Christian community to persevere until the final
judgment; 4 thus the deeds of mercy inculcated are direct responses to the Christian proclamation (7:794).
Please review the following before
making any
more judgments.
Yet much can be done in the way of
making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of
judgment and salvation with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer happiness, and do his will
more perfectly.
This demand
makes more comprehensible God's double aspect of love and justice:
judgment is the individual's
judgment of himself when he cuts himself off from relationship with God.
I don't really want to
make a quick
judgment on him, I would like to study
more on what he believed and such.
Later in his life, in one of the last pieces he wrote on Nazism, Bettelheim was to
make an even
more extreme
judgment.
On that basis, he contends that «ironically, people by getting rid of the idea of
judgment and hell, try to
make God
more loving, actually
make him less.»
It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been
made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the
judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no
more to the human order but to the order of thy kingdom.
But this does not mean that there is no place for the kind of moral
judgment that is relevant to mature experience and that
makes men uneasy,
more fully aware of the consequences of their decisions,
more sensitive to the dark side of their culture.
These considerations add up to the
judgment that while it is possible to
make undialectical single statements about general idealism, for instance, it is quite another and a
more imaginative task to expose the inner core of faith which looks like and works like idealism but is compounded of utterly different stuff.
It is sure, just as every simple man is sure, that some states of mind are inwardly superior to others, and reveal to us
more truth, and in this it simply
makes use of an ordinary spiritual
judgment.
The history of the twentieth century confirms Plato's
judgment and suggests a possible source of information for
making Hartshorne's philosophy
more realistic about the human condition.
As an educated country we should take
more time to educate ourselves on outside culture and religions and not
make ignorant
judgments against a people as a whole.
Whitehead then shows the distinction even
more strongly in the lines which follow this quotation, allowing, in effect, that the same proposition could possibly
make up the content of contradictory
judgments.
Science itself is incapable of
making moral
judgments and it is not really too wild a step of the imagination to think of a situation where scientific knowledge is valued
more highly than human lives.
When I noted to their champions that their psychological leanings seemed
more like those of men than of women, I would get various replies, mostly to the effect that in
making such
judgments I was drawing on sexual stereotypes.
The older I get and the
more I learn, the less qualified I become to
make correct moral
judgments; that may not stop me from having to
make them — an event must be assessed before it can be blessed — but I have learned with hindsight that with all the goodwill in the world I may be wrong, and it is only by offering my
judgments to God that they can be redeemed and blessed.
When moral rules and selves are abstracted from the normative traditions that give them substance and the social contexts that
makes them concrete, «values» become little
more than sentiments, moral
judgments, expressions of individual preference.
It is surrounded by larger and deeper value questions that it can not resolve by itself3 The technical expert may
make judgments about these
more comprehensive issues of good and bad.
Those who seek a plan for reorganizing society on Christian lines
make a
judgment of society and a demand on the world — the
judgment that the world ought not to be as it is, and the demand that society so change that there will be no
more war, no
more poverty, no
more exploitation of man; so change that a Christian finds it satisfactory.
Hence if the Moment is to have decisive significance — and if not we speak Socratically whatever we may say, even if through not even understanding ourselves we imagine that we have advanced far beyond that simple man of wisdom who divided
judgment incorruptibly between the God and man and himself, a judge
more just than Minos, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus — if the Moment has decisive significance the breach is
made, and man can not return.
It seems to me implausible that all these people, and so many
more, who have
made a negative
judgment on the medieval idea of God, were less competent than those who now wish to return essentially to the medieval perspective.
Deuteronomy 19:15 - 21
makes the point even
more emphatic that lex talionis is in Israel not a universally binding principle, but an ancient item of elemental justice still appropriate and applicable only in certain particular
judgments.
It would ne nice to accept our own moral compasses or as I put it «a morally correct manner» and then leave it at that, accept only detailed proven facts and then use your best
judgment on the rest, its
more likely to be right then listening or reading «facts» by those who tell you to not look for them or prove them one way r the other, that's the Fox News of the religious world... Religion is
more dangerous then a blind man in a room of razors, it hurts, kills and destroys
more of humanity then any «God
Made» disaster.
The
more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and
judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has
made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.
Grace - Marie said this was the point where you
make a
judgment call as to whether you need to add
more stock, and she did.