As technological reason is applied to
more areas of human life, trade - offs inevitably have to be made.
Not exact matches
But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into
more of the truth about the structure and functioning
of the world in which they
live; he is at work in the
areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.
Thus both history and the very nature
of the sexual question have guaranteed that the church will be
more involved in this
area than in most other
areas of human life.
Admittedly, in the
area of religious faith and morals we have been rather slower to discard the old in favour
of the new, for this is the aspect
of human life in which conservatism has always been most strongly entrenched, for the very good reason that man looks to this
area of life more than any other for his stability and security.
A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships
of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen
of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as
more like such a self - contained
human being rather than as like a man who in every
area of his
life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility
of endless adaptations to new circumstances.
So far we have not discussed the
area of human life which is known as the «religious experience», the awareness
of the «
more - than -
human» impinging on ordinary experience.
Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks not so much to the conscious attention
of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously experienced
areas of human life where men
live in terms
of feeling - tone,
of unutterable emotion, and
of profound subconscious relationships, with an almost intuitive awareness
of the «
more» which is deep down in the structure
of reality.
I see this as less
of a Gay Debate Problem and
more of a
Human Problem though: we play the comparison game in almost every
area of life and it inflates egos, breeds feelings
of inferiority, or causes jealousy (among other terrible ways
of internalizing the comparison culture).
as
humans advanced and became
more knowledgible
of natural events, we had to find a new task for «god» to control and the only
area left open for a «god» was the concept that our consience would exsist beyond this
life, aka a soul to explain why we needed a god... as time progresses
humans will eventually shed the need for a higher power and step into the light
of own responcibility, not governed obedience.
Biologist R. Dale Guthrie
of the University
of Alaska in Fairbanks largely agrees with the findings, but he says
more work is needed to explain why some mammoths seem to have survived in regions colonized by
humans and why many modern elephants
live in
areas easily accessible to
humans, such as the African savannah.
I hope we will begin to show some
of the greater boldness that we showed in the 1960s and 1970s, with missions
more like Voyager, Pioneer, and Apollo, using robotic spacecraft where appropriate, where the risk to
life can be prevented, and confining our
human missions to
areas where we can make a special contribution.
Growing
human vulnerability (due to growing numbers
of people
living in exposed and marginal
areas or due to the development
of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while
human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible effects.
This September, Elizabeth started a degree in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology to learn
more scientifically validated approaches for better enhancing
human health and wellness in all
areas of life.
Throughout the years
humans have relied upon dogs for many service aspects
of life but
more recently dogs have become a significant part
of a unique
area of the medical field.
Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first
human settlements provided (see The Natural History
of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all
human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study
of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended
more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times
more cats than actually
lived in that
area.2
A new public space in Philadelphia helps make the city
more human - scale and increase quality
of life for people who work or pass through the
area.
A movement based on the above principles could protect millions
of acres
of wilderness
more stringently than could any congressional act, could insure the propagation
of the Grizzly and other threatened
life forms better than could an army
of game wardens, and could lead to the retreat
of industrial civilization from large
areas of forest, mountain, desert, prairie, seashore, swamp, tundra, and woodland that are better suited to the maintenance
of native diversity than to the production
of raw materials for over consumptive technological
human society.
But as the places where
humans grow food become increasingly drier, some
areas could become
more vulnerable to drought, bringing a greater risk
of famine to the people who
live there, Thomas said.
While fire is a natural and vital part
of keeping our forests healthy, as
more and
more people
live in or near forested
areas, the danger to
human life and homes from the fire season becomes greater and greater.
perhaps
more so than any other
area of life, programmes for addressing Indigenous health reveal the problem
of a lack
of implementation
of human rights.