Sentences with phrase «myth making in»

They will address the strategic use of narrative and myth making in contemporary conflict and politics, in particular reference to Israel and Palestine but also discuss wider current regional conflicts.

Speaking on his LBC programme, Mr Clegg said that he was not going to be able to reverse 20 years of myth making in two hours.

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Media mogul Ariana Huffington has said «work - life balance is a myth» and has been fairly outspoken in her view that most of us have made dangerous concessions in our quest for personal and organizational top performance.

We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self - made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth.

Plus, I'm going to make a complaint because I wanted to upgrade anyway, and was told there wasn't any room, but I debunked that myth by sitting in a seat that was, in fact, empty.

This might have been true in the earliest days of social media, but the facts make this myth one of the least convincing.

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).

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.

A titan in the world of tech IPOs, his status grew not only from expertise in taking small and large digital companies public, but also from his myth - making showmanship.

One enormous myth that has been propagated (sometimes innocently, sometimes not) in recent debates over the future of the auto industry is the false notion that auto workers «make» $ 75 per hour.

Blind faith, unconsciousness, fanatic make - believe Like wounded animal, tries to defend itself Imagined enemies and threats to it's own myth Cause pain and suffering in it's own hell

I'd say rather than try to invent wish fulfillment with myth and fairy tales about the way we'd like things to be, why not just find our contentment in our present existence, make ours the best lives we can live and just enjoy the ride we have, rather than invent one to dream about.

That is what nature does Topher, it is called evolution, you are making slow progress in understanding what is real and what is myth.

Like other myths in Genesis the flood myth borrows from the Sumerians, but with the myth modified to make it consistent with Jewish mythology.

«I really think it's a big myth when people say, «You're not going to make it unless you go to a big market,» because it's way tougher to make it in the big markets than it is to make it anywhere else,» Beresh said.

Zeus, Venus, Satan, Sheva, Krisna, Jesus, Allah... all embraceable man - made myths for people too mentally conditioned to honestly consider their own religious brainwashing, too lazy and / or stupid to actually confront and learn the science of mother nature, and too empowered / deluded by sectarian association to relocate their nose an inch away from the ass end of the sheep they follow in single file.

mistakes have never been made in history, lets kill some more, that proves its no myth!

I suppose that we couldn't expect much more, since there is little incentive not to lie without fear of God... barring faith in some truly man - made myths that I'm sure this group is willing to offer.

This myth irritates atheists, because it tries to make a virtue out of preying on people's weaknesses in order to sell them a lie.

EvolvedDNA «why is it rude to call you on your myths» = > we can talk about gods of past that were man made but our God is a living God and some of us have a personal relationship with God because of what God has actually done in our lives.

Are there any believers here who can honestly make the statement; «I may be believing in a myth.»

I'd like to add to my last comment that first the myth that darwin became a christian and gave up his own theory is most likely fiction and propaganda for christians to call heresy on a christian boogeyman, but secondly in that myth it says that darwin renounced his own theory on his deathbed, thats what cari believes in refutation, but just because you might disbelieve a theory you came up with doesn't make the theory wrong.

It makes you look ignorant, kind of those who read shades in Plato's cavern myth.

The author above at least made an attempt at doing so about the myths in this article.

Conservative Jews in the USA have rewritten the Torah to reflect the myths therein basically making it a doc - ument of peace.

And before anyone discounts the words of Jesus by flippantly making the claim of «oh, that's a myth,» we can be sure in this modern age of the words of Christ as being authentic through the works of Frederic Kenyon, F.F. Bruce, Sir Robert Anderson, J.I. Packer, A.W. Tozer, and many many more...

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You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

In fact, we may rightly claim that the preaching of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments must necessarily go together; to put it in language used by Professor Whitehead in Religion in the Making, the «cult» (by which Whitehead meant the social action of worship) and the «myth» (by which he meant the story which explains a society's worship) can never be separateIn fact, we may rightly claim that the preaching of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments must necessarily go together; to put it in language used by Professor Whitehead in Religion in the Making, the «cult» (by which Whitehead meant the social action of worship) and the «myth» (by which he meant the story which explains a society's worship) can never be separatein language used by Professor Whitehead in Religion in the Making, the «cult» (by which Whitehead meant the social action of worship) and the «myth» (by which he meant the story which explains a society's worship) can never be separatein Religion in the Making, the «cult» (by which Whitehead meant the social action of worship) and the «myth» (by which he meant the story which explains a society's worship) can never be separatein the Making, the «cult» (by which Whitehead meant the social action of worship) and the «myth» (by which he meant the story which explains a society's worship) can never be separated.

To say that «we continue to consider Lutheranism a confessional movement in the one comprehensive Church of Christ whose full lineaments will be made clear only in the End Time» is a neo «gnostic myth which refuses to believe that Jesus Christ founded a historical church that we are to take seriously.

I can do what I like with my holiday, and I don't have to rename and reconfigure it to please one side or make it about something I don't believe in to appease the other, neither Jesus or Saturn or any other myth that was once attached to the day.

The story of creation and the story of the fall, for example, like the account of the last things in the Book of Revelation, may properly be called myths, since they are concerned with absolute beginnings and endings or with universally predicable truths, about which no precise conceptual statements can be made and which are best expressed in pictorial language.

you'd figure by now people would see that he isn't coming.or that he never came in the first place and it was all made up myth.

Ogden stated in Christ Without Myth (1961) that he intended to express the «objective» reality of the event Jesus Christ more adequately than Bultmann had succeeded in doing, but that this would have to come in a later work.17 His fullest treatment of the problem thus far appeared in 1963 in his essay, «What Sense Does it Make to Say, «God Acts in History»»?

But if we use the Trinity as myth to point to this unknowability of God, we must make clear that we are not claiming that God is in fact tripartite.

That's a lot of time for myth - making in a culture where word - of - mouth is the only means of spreading information.

NOWHERE has it been shown that God is using an ACTUAL Creature... again God is using things that people KNOW... they knew of MYTHICAL things like dragons... they knew that other religions had drgaons... they were aware of them having dragons in their myths... God simply chose to use that to make a point... show me WHERE it says it was an actual creature...

I find your interest in pareidolia, matching nonsense myth with whatever sense we can make of real events, non-intentionally humorous.

Believing in a death myth or the supernatural does not make it real... fanciful stories... of the supernatural are not real... Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill on how the Christian myth was created from the Jewish one....

Science, in other words, tells stories that make sense, just as ancient myths did.

Believing in a myth and imagined beings doesn't make sense to me and it stops or slows down real human development.

The new manifesto urges humanity to «leave behind the magical thinking and myth - making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature,» notes that religions «have their origins in pre-urban nomadic and agricultural societies of the past» and are irrelevant to the «postindustrial global information culture that is emerging,» and calls for a World Parliament.

Forgetting the idiosyncratic, unspeakably diverse crowds of strangers, we become drawn through television to the familiar faces, myths and visions of the American Way of Life, thereby putting ourselves in touch with a shared vision of the human order — a vision that engages our loyalties and makes sense of our world.

Herbert Fingarette, in his book Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease (University of California Press, 1988), does not make the particular case I do here, but I believe he would support it.

Not what u see on CNN, not what your mum said nor your pastor or priest said and not what u see some Muslims neighbors of yours do... noooo nay,,, what have u searched your self... i dare u do... find the true, i swear nothing makes any sense as Islam does, those guys know the whole truth... even if it will hurt, just like Santa - clause when u 12 year or the rats that gives money to the de toothing kid in our Ugandan myth, u deserve to know the truth... and if no scientist has come out and disproved the divine origin of this universe logically then there must be a mighty some one behind it and that Creator or whatever it is, HE has a way, a straight path to Him and we are obliged to know it... so my adverse to u is look hard for the true coz it is clear from false, even if u may hate it!!

In other words, we must approach - and fortunately a beginning has already been made - Oceanic or African myths, symbols and rites with the same respect and the same desire to learn that hitherto we have devoted to the cultural creations of the West».

First, since you said whatever arguement I make is right, that you'll agree with then: there is no god, jesus is a myth, santa DOES exist, ect, ect... Sorry, I just had to slip those in there.

People are finally understanding that religion is all man made, just like the Mormon myths of golden tablets and ancient Mormons in South America.

Theo God is seen in the things that are made, but of course you will have to state your case that Vishnu, Pan Gu or any of the other creation myths does not have as much validity as you myth.