Sentences with phrase «means of controlling people»

All religions are simply a means of controlling people — nothing more, nothing less.

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Expectations are that she will seek to control the number of people entering the country — even if that means restricting the access that U.K. businesses have to the European common market.

What many of these social media companies intend to do is to create «walled gardens» within the open internet — meaning that they will enact significant control over the content consumption of the people using their platforms.

This would mean that a person who deposited $ 100 in their account would be able to control $ 200 worth of the relevant financial instrument.

We want to give people the chance to take control of their money; to make it the way it was always meant to be: free - flowing and secure, for the everyday and the extraordinary.

It means that they can potentially control the flow of digital information, favoring content that aligns with their corporate interests and steering people's opinions over time by regulating how fast content of one type or another gets delivered.

What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked «systemically important institutions» and «too big to fail» has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people.

All of that, and there is no verifiable proof that any of it is or was ever true can lead a rational person to only one conclusion: a man - made fairy tale at best and a means of mind - control, torture and prejudice at worst.

When people other than ourselves try to take control of our spirituality, or change our history, or make us into something we are not — that has powerful meaning to Jewish people.

Religion and governments have kept people uneducated, or at least in the dark about the outside world, as a means of controlling them throughout history.

jesus jokes mean most people aren't afraid of god and the people who want us to be afraid of god because HE»S NOT REAL and its funny to laugh at people who think he is real... religion was invented by men in power to control the masses.

The money will mean Greek banks will be able to reopen after two weeks of closure, and that capital controls - where people have only been allowed to withdraw $ 60 per day - will be lifted.

People are taught and to clarify what I mean by this, I'll give the example of an abusive home: So Little Joey is born to parents where Dad totally control's the home.

On the other hand, «property rights» enters into the institutional experience of Parliament only in respect to its meaning for people who stood to gain or lose voting rights and control of boroughs and counties.

And what do pastors do when they feel their people are getting out of control, meaning his or her control?

Telling people they are sinning for being LGBT or for having an abortion or using birth control or trying to impose your specific set of beliefs upon others in the public square is not a good thing and certainly doesn't show that you have a clue as to the meaning of the word respect.

Instead of the person engaging in the acts paying their own way (instead of controlling themselves and living within their means) they want everyone else to chip in and make it more affordable for them to continue with their habits.

Low - intensity conflict utilizes a variety of means in order to control hearts and minds and separate people from revolutionary movements.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Also I'm most of the time very good at judging others to some kind of standard that I expect people to live by, meaning I want to put them into religion or at least have some kind of control over them.

It means us women are taking control of our childbirth and we have plenty of people on this planet.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Over the millennia is has provided an occupation and a living for millions of people, and a means to control the masses.

Most people are not intelligent enough to do their own research and find out that the story of jesus has been told before as a means to control the masses.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

Socialism and communism are based on the principle that the means of producing goods and providing services — such as all factories and companies — should be owned publicly and controlled and planned by a centralized organization rather than being controlled by members of a small class of wealthy people.

From this standpoint, the task of intelligence in relation to sex is not to master it or to control it in the way of earlier restrictive patterns of life, but to discover means of securing maximum sexual satisfaction for all people.

Religion is a means of control for weak minded people

Its controlling metaphors of «the man at the giant switchboard» and «the man in the cloverleaf,» which were meant to symbolize the communication grid and the mobility network of the modern metropolis, seemed implausible to people who had been denied both mobility and communication, and for whom the city was often not a place of expanded freedom but the site of more sophisticated humiliations.

one of the abused, I don't know what NP meant, but pastors probably are quite aware after awhile - even if not at first - how much they can control people.

For most of these people, the pursuit of simplicity means gaining control of their money and their time so that both can be used more intentionally.

In both cases, civil rights could be — and were — denied to homosexuals and black persons because they failed to meet the culture's definition of human «spirit,» meaning a reasonable and sexually self - controlled person.

I mean if we don't CONTROL the people through fear and guilt and shame, then we just might lose control of the whole country!

As The Daily Show already pointed out, the original saint upon whom Santa is based was actually ethnically Turkish («Greek» meant ethnic Greeks as well as all the people under the control of Greece at the time) and would not be called «white» by the folks at Faux News if they ran into him on the street.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

At least I find that the fear of same has contributed in controlling people from ab - using each other on the streets sw - earing calling names at each others beliefs, meaning that even if Jesus was s - worn at or called names at by a Muslim or non Muslim this will surely end up with the same faith of this woman since Jesus is as well Prophet and Messanger of God Allah and calling him names is just as equal guilt and that is the true law to be respected.

I mean, according to Scripture, it is the parent's responsibility to raise up their children and teach them about God, but our modern way of doing church relinquishes these things to 45 minutes on Sunday morning and Wednesday night, in a building with a (generally) controlled environment, and to a person we don't really know.

You mean he decided to have the English people take control of these places of theirs instead of that Italian guy, (whom in my movie I call the pe - wp) with the tri-ple CROWN, who then also called himself the «servant of the servants» and had a wife and mistresses and children, (even though he was «cel - i - bate» and said he had the «keys to the kingdom»).

I believe it's a bunch of hocus pocus meant to control the minds of primitive people...

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

But this means that global interdependence is achieved at the price of making all peoples dependent on those who control international trade.

«It characterizes the option between two different «trajectories» that are present in the history of the people of God, and it is in this history that it affirms and makes explicit the meaning of its vocation in the world».31 Latin America is a continent where the state is very oppressive and the economy is controlled by transnational companies with the result that economic benefits are concentrated in the hands of a small community.

I mean, a little birth control would mean we could actually feed most of the people on the planet, but nah, let's let massive disease and starvation do that for us..

Then the lucid addition of «So Satan may not tempt you with your lack of self control» I mean one can easily make the rational assumption or argument that masturbation is a good remedy in this regard as well to help relieve the desires of the flesh that might other wise lead a married person to adultery.

Christian influence can become a means of control in ways both extreme and subtle, and it does a number on the people who get hurt in the fallout.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

I will fight for any religions right to practice as they wish as long as they don't stomp of individual rights and freedom of religion which means each person can make their religious moral judgements for themselves which is why there are millions of Christian women who have no problem with these 4 forms of birth control but they are now having their freedom of religion taken out of their hands and decided by their employer.

But it seems in some cases at least to have been turned into a means to greater institutional control of people through exposing aspects of their «private» lives to unprecedented institutional probing.

The sense of power and control over one's life remains, however, when they also are endowed with something Antonovski (1979) calls «lawfulness,» that is, when meaning is attributed as much to a miracle as to the absence of one, and people believe that «things will be how they should be.»