Sentences with phrase «myth as myth»

Hence it is possible to do what Pope Pius XII urged in his encyclical Divino Afflatu: to read history, where it is present, as history although written of course in the fashion thought right at the time; and to recognize and study poetry as poetry, legend as legend, myth as myth, moral teaching as moral teaching.

If the teacher prefers to teach myth as myth, without demythologizing, he can apply the principle of interpretation which Crombie suggests as a basis for discussion.

Not exact matches

That is a frontal attack on the small - business - as - job - creator myth that dominates the political discourse in countries such as the United States and Canada.

«The basement entry, while dangerous, wasn't quite as dramatic as modern myth would have you believe,» Leatherbarrow said.

But, as is the case with all forms of birth control, there are many mixed - up, outdated, or just flat - out wrong myths about IUDs that persist.

Debunking the Myths Many people believe they don't have the innate qualities necessary to find success as an entrepreneur, and that self - made millionaires are somehow «different» from them.

As the Fed itself recently explained, the money multiplier is a myth.

Since the third century BC the man, myth and legend known variously as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, La Befana, Yule Tomten and Christkindli has been an amazing entrepreneur each and every startup founder can learn from.

According to the myth of the «student athlete,» the highly trained athletes performing for mammoth, lucrative TV audiences are the same as the student field hockey players whose extracurricular athletic activities are just part of a balanced education.

Not only that, they fly in the face of some massively overhyped myths that masquerade as common wisdom, these days, especially among the entrepreneurial crowd:

It's usually a knee - jerk reaction to some uncomfortable modern issue or in defense of one of the many historical myths children in the mainland are taught as unshakeable facts about the world.

It is a pretty common myth that sharks don't sleep and as cool as that would be it's unfortunately not true.

Not because Azure was a bad service, but because the last thing growing startups can afford (regardless of the «learn as you go» myths) is on - the - job training.

The very culture of start - ups and the myth of killer customer service breeds a «can do» attitude that treats the everyday business as a constant emergency and a fire drill.

That's not myth, but what is a myth is the assumption that they actually have a better life as a result.

Not to mention ditching myths about the role of customers and employees — and even your own exalted status as idea czar.

He wanted to study the claim by consultants that executives need to be paid extraordinarily high compensation or else they would migrate to other companies and jurisdictions, which — as it turned out — did not happen, Feinberg said, or is a «myth» as was stated in the U.K. this week.

Some of these myths are usually misplaced; one such myth being that retailers or ecommerce websites can not benefit from them as they are a costly affair.

But there are two myths surrounding SMS and MMS message marketing that purport it to be both complicated and hampered by regulation, but the truth is these regulations serve the marketer as well as the consumer, protecting the latter from spammy marketing, and protecting marketers from spam - related accusations.

«We would therefore conclude that this perception can be viewed simply as a myth.»

However, there is increasing evidence that the STEM shortage is a myth and, as Fareed Zakaria points out in his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skills.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

Countless Americans believe the «good guy with a gun» myth, but — as we saw with the armed guard in Florida who never went inside the high school — that isn't always the case.

(Autonomy is a myth as an entrepreneur because your entire life gets consumed with your startup, and your clients, users, team and investors all become your new bosses sucking up all of that «freedom» you've been dreaming of.)

Fran Hauser is a long - time media executive, startup investor and author of The Myth of the Nice Girl.Best known for her role building PEOPLE.com — one of the biggest media brands online — Hauser made the leap to early stage investing in 2014, funding and advising consumer - focused companies such as HelloGiggles, Mogul, The Wing and Gem & Bolt.

Harper - economics lead to a Harper - recession and now to a Harper - deficit Louis - Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Confirmation federal government finances have fallen back into deficit raises more questions about Harperâ $ ™ s image, now more myth than reality, as a sound economic manager.

The CLC wants Canada Mortgage and Housing to re-finance distressed Canadian home mortgages at lower rates, dismissing the view that Canada is not experiencing a housing bubble as a myth.

• BP's C.F.O., Brian Gilvary, dismissed a claim that its C.E.O., Bob Dudley, had been poisoned in Moscow as «a complete urban myth.»

There was always a popular myth among foreign China bulls, and it still exists today to some extent, that any skepticism about the Chinese growth miracle marked you out as a misguided foreigner, because every relevant Chinese economist agreed fully with the ecstatic hype that the press and the sell - side were saying about China.

Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

But, that's a myth, as Forbes points out:

Canadian Extractives as Development: Myth or Reality?

As with the myth that Bitcoin is insecure, the idea that Bitcoin itself was hacked in the MtGox incident is false.

12 Myths Uncovered About A Franchise Opportunity What You Need To Know About Investing In A Franchise Launching any new business can be rather daunting, even something a turn key as a franchise opportunity.

This is a thorny issue, and as prone to myths and crank theories as, say, gold.

In fact, I understand that some in the crypto community view the necessity of cashing out itself as a type of myth.

And stocks were positive 6 out of the past 9 times in the year leading up to the start of a recession, dispelling the myth that the stock market always acts as a leading indicator of economic activity.

Perpetuating certain myths makes big money for beauty manufacturers, and as soon as you stop believing the hype you start saving a bundle.

One of the myths about older workers that may need to be dispelled is that they don't seek work flexibility as much as their younger counterparts — a concept that research has increasingly debunked.

Another common myth is that people end up freelancing just as an interim phase, between jobs or while searching for full - time work.

Paired with the myth of freelancing as a temporary pit stop is the assumption that most people who freelance are younger, since they don't have to worry as much about financial responsibility.

The problem is Keynesian stimulus, and central bankers are as guilty as anyone of propagating the myth that this can work.

But one only has to glance at the weapons used in our nation's most prominent mass public attacks to recognize this claim as a myth:

The myth is fed by the public's perception of groundbreaking companies as having come out of nowhere to rock the world.

«That was an insane number driven by crazy credit and should be viewed the same as gods of ancient Greece and other fables or myths.»

But, as far as we know, there isn't much myth around that.

The shareholders perpetuate the myth of Buffett as a small - town investor who does things the «right way.»

As part of this interesting proposal, he talks about the «Austrian cryptocurrency myth» that tokens created in the operation of a double permissionless shared ledger could compete with fiat currencies in everyday use and concludes that for reasons relating to both technology and governance they could not.

There are also so many Panda myths reported as fact, which ends up resulting in webmasters attempting to «fix» Panda, but which ends up hurting a site even more.

What most of us think of today as modern medicine is heavily dependent on an understanding of genetics, but certainly the term «modern» is relative and those who still think a book of myths beats science might consider pasteurization and basic sanitation the height of modernity.