Not exact matches
Otherwise, there
's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (
most of them mediocre at best), small -
time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black
bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.
It may not
be the
most exciting ride, but at
times like these,
boring and stable
is just fine.
The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and
most of the wild animals had
been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs
were five
times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food
was bland and
boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.
Some of the
most successful entrepreneurs of our
time weren't even
born in this country.
But Rogers, a senior fellow at lefty U.S. think - tank Demos and contributor to The New York
Times Magazine and The Nation, spends
most of her page count debunking the notion consumer - end market decisions
are going to save the polar
bears, or the planet.
Warren Buffett, probably the world's
most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could
be traced back to the fact that he
was born in the right country, the United States, at the right
time (1930).
In contrast, «The trend
is your friend»
is quite useful in reducing the depth of
bear market losses, but
most popular variants underperform the market over
time.
While these observations suggest that liquidity conditions may have deteriorated relative to those in 2005 - 06,
most observers agree that bid - ask spreads at the
time had
been unduly narrow owing to market participants» search for yield in the run - up to the crisis (BIS (2005)-RRB-- an environment
bearing some similarities with current conditions (BIS (2014)-RRB-.
Egg costs
are rising at a
time when
most raw materials
are in
bear markets.
Bear in mind that
most funds
are run by a team, and it
is equally important that the team has
been together for a long
time.
And just like stock
bear markets,
most investors will
be shocked every
time the next downturn hits.
His desire to break up the
most successful company of all
time as measured by percentage gain in value per year
is a passion
born of the passing of a social mood peak of even higher degree than that of 1929.
«A short, sharp break off of all -
time highs
is never how
bear markets begin» adding they tend to fall by 2 to 3 percent a month over their entire duration, with
most of the decline coming in the last 40 percent.
Most people who become Christians, (if they
are not
born into it) don't spend any
time researching [again, «reasoning»] the system they
are about to commit to.
Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha
was born 630 years before Jesus, and it
is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i
am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says
are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus
was the greatest salesman of all
time... sold the
most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award
Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986),
is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood
bears prophetic witness to the largest,
most subtle and
most violent manifestations of power in our
time.
Thank you for sharing your story, I can only imagine the burden you
bore and continue to
bear being what seems to
be a functionally single parent
most the
time.
Once the young apologist, I suddenly found myself wrestling with the notion that
most of my fellow human
beings would suffer eternal damnation in hell for
being born at the wrong place and the wrong
time.
Rather, in my view, they
are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by fallible human
beings whose work
bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the
times and the cultures they lived in, but also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.
In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the world from the
time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's
being anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the whole world
being at peace in the sixth age of the world, Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to sanctify the world by his
most merciful coming,
being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception,
was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary,
being made flesh.
Then light
was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that
were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun
was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth
was created at the same
time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess,
most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.
Perhaps then you will wonder why «the true god» did not predestinate you
be born in the society and
time period when that god
was most worshiped.
The mentally healthy person
is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same
time feels one with his fellowman; who
is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who
is in the process of
being born as long as he
is alive, and considers the gift of life the
most precious chance he has.
And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of
time, when the noise of worldliness
is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything
is still about thee as it
is in eternity — whether thou
wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst
bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst
bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall
be remembered as long as the world stands (and so
was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee
was the
most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou
wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou
wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.
It doesn't take an expert in anthropology to figure out that the
most important factor in determining the nature of one's existence, including one's religion,
is the place and
time in which one
is born, a factor completely out of one's control.
From Rachel: So the
most common Bible passage cited by those who oppose the possibility of postmortem salvation
is probably Hebrews 9:27 - 28: «And inasmuch as it
is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having
been offered once to
bear the sins of many, will appear a second
time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.»
In early April 1959,
Time magazine reported that «the
most famous and perhaps the
most beautiful baby
born last week
was a Jewish girl named Elisheba Rachel Taylor.»
A prayerful african child
is wahooo happy and sees a great future though
born in the youngest of continents and the
most trying
times of the african continent still strugling with its given and herited (mostly false) foundationbut God has given us victory
Also,
bear in mind King Josiah's reforms to the hebrew bible not to mention the convenient «discovery» of one of the lost books of Moses during his reign, ie Deuteronomy (which
most scholars agree
was not written in the
time of «Moses»... provided Moses even existed... no evidence he or any of the Patriachs ever existed... except David) when you start to look at the evidence and history of judaism and christianity it becomes quite clear that these religions
are not what they claim to
be.
As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism
is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first
time, and
most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism
is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking
is born.
«The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider; or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and
is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to
be cast into the fire; he
is of purer eyes than to
bear to have you in his sight; you
are ten thousand
times more abominable in his eyes than the
most hateful venomous serpent
is in yours.
It
is the problem that arises in its acutest form when life itself becomes a problem, when the goodness of existence
is questionable, as it has
been for
most men at
most times; when the ancient and universal suspicion arises that he
is happiest who
was never
born and he next fortunate who died young.
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and
is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to
be cast into the fire; he
is of purer eyes than to
bear to have you in his sight; you
are ten thousand
times more abominable in his eyes, than the
most hateful venomous serpent
is in ours.
This
is our
time to
bear witness to the love of Christ even when — or
most particularly when — we disagree.
You hold the firmest convictions about Our Lord; believing him to
be truly «of David's line in his manhood», yet Son of God by the divine will and power; truly
born of a virgin; baptised by John «for his fulfilling of all righteousness»; and in the days of Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch truly pierced by nails in his human flesh (a fruit imparting life to us from his
most blessed passion), so that by his resurrection he might set up a beacon for all
time to call together his saints and believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, in the one bodyof his Church» (Smyrna I, 1 - 6).
Boring Jesus This three hour 1965 Hollywood epic
was certainly ambitious: At the
time, it
was one of the
most expensive movies ever made.
The Russian
bear has not carried a Hammer & Sickle for quite some
time but the «west» — as you put it —
is constantly trying to deny that Russia
is just another capitalist country like
most of the rest.
Born a Jew, thoroughly trained in Greek philosophy, and converted to Christianity, Pantaneus
was a remarkable person and the
most outstanding Christian scholar of his
time.
Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their
time.11 Perhaps the
most important thing that happened to such men
was that they became aware of the many factors
bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.
when thunder would boom we couldn't say another human did it and seeing we hunted
most animals, it wasn't them so it had to
be something larger than us... thus the spirits
were born, over
time we called them gods, then came the bright idea to put all into one god.
Could you really believe that a man
was really a God although he
was born from a women but she
was a virg in, although he
was killed in the
most horrific way at the
time he
is still alive 2000 years later, I could go on and on but I think you got the idea.
There
are times when heaven does look
boring, however, and that
is most often when it
is made too generic.
Here
is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him
born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he
is going and Oh yeah, they
are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his
time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the
most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can
be historically proven.
Yes, I know
most people find baseball games
boring, let alone sitting in an empty stadium for an extra 2 hours with almost no action to watch whatsoever, but those moments have always
been my favorite quality father - daughter
times.
Now as some of you know, our home
is full of stuffed teddy
bears and
most of the
time it
is a lot of fun living with them.
Most of the
time I just make what I
'm craving and what sounds good to me at the moment, and while that might
be popsicles in October or hot chocolate in July, you'll just have to
bear with me.
Although you somehow magically managed to make fruity and yet still crispy granola with that Apple Pie Granola recipe of yours... wow one instance where Brandi
was MORE fruity than me LOL The store - bought stuff
is the
most boring thing now that I've had homemade so many
times!
I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about chicken, and mostly express these opinions via shouting about how it
is the
most boring meat to anyone who will listen, or happens to
be in the room at the
time.
I
was looking for a new good turkey burger because
most of the
time turkey burgers
are pretty
boring.
They
're on the disappointment list because they played the
most boring game of the day despite
being in the very last
time slot.