Originals don't
mean anything when we can produce and reproduce anything at a moments notice on computers.
It's all too easy to decide that something doesn't
mean anything when you are not equipped to understand what it means.
Take something that doesn't actually
mean anything when taken out of context and quote it, like it's some kind of self explanatory zen BS that only someone as smart as the quoter could possibly understand.
As a neurologist and migraine sufferer, I know statistics don't
mean anything when a headache takes over our lives and causes lost time at work or with our loved ones.
Since when do the claims and protests of players / managers / agents / sport writers
mean anything when it comes to transfers??
That doesn't
mean anything when you have to play Alabama, but it's nice when you wake up screaming while thinking about playing without a fully healthy Garrett.
So saying that a theory is unproven doesn't really
mean anything when the facts will always stay forever whether the theory is fully proven or not.
With all the advances in technology and everything, that does nt
mean anything when the spirits and hearts of many people around the world are the way they are.
And all that rationalization won't
mean anything when you wind up in hell.
Claiming Religion bigger doen't
mean anything when your own people are straving for food.
As the argument goes, Android and Apple may have 600,000 apps each to choose from, but do those numbers really
mean anything when they respectively count dozens of useless fart apps?
Not exact matches
Some people believe that
means doing
anything they want
when they want to do it, but that's rarely the case.
When I say «big» purchase, I
mean anything that shows up on your credit card statement and the dollar amount catches your attention.
It will not
mean anything to their little girl after she is born, but I bet she will be happy
when she turns 18 and takes ownership of those shares.
Procure enough money -: Money is the
means to buying
anything and
when investing, especially in the stock market, money is needed in huge amounts.
Does that
mean that if you put all your money in real estate you're not going to lose
anything when the crisis hit?
Some would argue, for example, that Lehman failed not because it was truly insolvent, if that even
means anything, but because the Fed, right or wrong, refused to lend to it
when no one else would.
So
when u say the bible clearly states, that
means you don't read the bible because the BIBLE DOES NOT CLEARLY STATE
ANYTHING!
My great uncle who died of a brain tumor said a lot of nonsensical stuff
when he was dying, that doesn't
mean it was the secrets of the universe or
anything.
When Jesus said that he brings a sword, does this
mean that we no longer do
anything in our power to reconcile, make peace, and work for the unity of all people?
People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do
anything to save face even if it
means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom
when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.
(New Testament) Whay did Christ die on the cross anyway, if the old way was good enough???
When Paul speaks of the law he
means anything that we should must or ought be doing.
I am not responsible for
anything you chose to believe I
meant when I said something else.
When will this ever
mean anything to you?
I am hoping the chats turn nowhere toward who, what, how,
when --- or
anything about God, church, or what that might
mean to us or them.
When discussing Calvinism with Calvinists, there are two texts that are almost always brought up in defense of God's right to do
anything He wants with people, even if it
means deciding from all eternity to send billions of them to everlasting punishment in hell.
i
mean SUCKED!!!!! i could tell
when i was in the middle of it, and i was too discombobulated to do
anything about it.
When scientists say that certain things in nature are random, this does
mean that Nature is in a certain sense blind; it does not imply
anything about God's knowledge or purposes.
In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation of
anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really
mean...»
when both Jesus and the author of this Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live of other things on Earth... that's the whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»
If God's scandalous relationship with the 12 thugs
means anything, then we should expect a variegated spectrum of righteousness and be patient — or repentant —
when such sanctification doesn't meet out expectations.
When Dr. James Pratt was head of the department of philosophy at Williams College he sent out a questionnaire to friends of his, asking them what, if
anything, God
meant to them.
What I do believe is that we need to really know Jesus to know God — Although text
meaning can change Jesus who is the word of God — His personality doesn't change...... so
when you read behind the text and see the personality of Jesus — you get to know Him for who He is and then I can test
anything the bible or text say against His character for truth!
Im one of these spiritual people, and
when I say that, I do nt
mean I believe in God, only that I do nt know
anything so I claim to never know I do.
There comes a time
when you need to accept that beating yourself up isn't changing
anything but your ability to draw
meaning from today.
And
when I started a public radio program on religion, ethics and
meaning seven years ago, I was also quite aware that I was inviting people to put words around something as intimate as
anything we try to talk about, and as ultimately ineffable.
And my point about the sun stopping, is that it was something that happened once, thousands of years ago, and it is certainly possible that no one wrote
anything down about, with of course the exception that it was recorded in the Bible And
when I said the latter, I
mean the second of the two things you thought I might be talking about And I was asking who you
meant when you said you didn't understand why he didn't kill everyone but Joshua.
Strangely,
when we ask people what they think it
means, they rarely mention
anything about Jesus.
The truth is that
when Paul uses the image of the ransom, he is
meaning to say something like this: «Imagine yourself a slave or captive in the hand of a hard master who has set a price upon your head far beyond
anything you could ever pay.
When you try to use Evolution to explain
anything, it just sounds so absurd, yet they (by they, i
mean evolutionists) try to push it on us like it's a verified fact?
I have had so many bad thoughts about the holy spirit and
when i say bad i
mean they are horrible hateful things but i have never said
anything i have only thought them... I try to say sorry
when i pray but i feel like it isnt forgiven..
@ruth: quoting a 2000 year old fairytale doesn't
mean anything;
when you have something more productive to say you can sit at the grown up table otherwise go sit in the corner.
I
mean we still have it partially but not like in heaven because look we have to know what it is like to be sick or hungry or whatever so that
when we have total grace from God in heaven we never ever turn from Him or do
anything that will take us away from him because doing it if we don't learn it now and we do it in heaven we wold be banished forever like the fallen angels.
does it
mean anything to you
when you have a need to communicate properly?
When we have been valiant and «virtuous» in the struggle (which
means we have not eaten
anything «sinful»), we know the gates of heaven are at hand (it only feels like hell).
But this does not
mean that we are not called upon to respond to God's previous invitation which he extended to all men
when He became incarnate in Christ or that we should not see everything that came before, has come since, and will come, in the light of this His, until now — we can not say more, but also certainly not
anything less — supreme revelation.
It was the laughter of admiration, the way you involuntarily exhale and toss your head back
when Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep says a line in a movie so well and so cool and so true that you can't do
anything but laugh, even
when the line is not
meant to be funny or
when someone's wrapped in a rug and getting crammed into the trunk of a car.
(I couldn't tell another person asking for some money to feed their children that we cant give them
anything (because its policy)
when we have 6 plasma screens hanging on our stage — I know the story of the costly perfume etc but I don't think this
means that it is OK to have expensive toys and NOT look after the poor).
This whole thing is a joke
when you realize that: not only is everyone unable to agree on what Jesus
meant, but they are unable to agree on what they see about
ANYTHING.
It also explains why so many mistakenly think God is impressed with our level of certainty over our beliefs,
when in fact the only thing that
means anything to God is how faithful his people are in trusting his character and in living in relationship with him, regardless of whatever level of certainty they have, or don't have.
When we try to assign
meaning to things based on reasoning that has no definitive link to an objective reality,
anything goes.