Sentences with phrase «myth making of»

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The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.

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.

For the rest of us «ordinary» entrepreneurs with great, non-tech ideas, I believe that understanding the truths behind many of these myths will help set the proper expectations when seeking funding and make identifying and securing the resources you need to grow your business much easier.

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

The power of that myth may have made the crisis inevitable.

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).

«We are trying to showcase and bust the myth that Airbnb supports mom and pop and helps them make extra money,» Mr. Flanagan, of the American Hotel and Lodging Association, said.

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.

They discuss the facts and myths surrounding bear markets, why they make us so fearful, and how to not only prepare but even profit when the market dips — all of which are key concepts straight out of their new book, Unshakeable.

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.

Like any myth, this story has a kernel of truth: There are exceptional individuals whose hard work, determination, and intelligence make up for the lack of a college degree.

If the title makes you uncomfortable, you will feel more uncomfortable after you read Dever's bold challenge of 20 common investment myths.

Here we debunk 5 of the most common myths and misconceptions around annuities, so you can make better decisions about your investment mix.

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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.

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.

Make more sense to not believe any of the jesus myth.

It is the divinity of jesus and all the supernatural mumbo jumbo that goes into the stories, that have never been replicated, that make his myth as believable as Dionysus or any other man inspired god.

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.

Hopefully, you know that the bible is a collection of myths, mostly fictional bloody history, rife with contradictions and a tribal war god yahweh that would make Stalin and Hitler blush.

I would argue that any further knowledge of / about God can not happen if you remain behind the line of belief, whether you can factually prove anything empirically (that you can make God prove Himself at will) or use the vehicle of myth, legend, story or subjective and very personal experiences too extraordinary for words to fully convey.

There is really no problem making fun of any of you, all of you are following myths of some bronze age goat herders, and some of you believe those stories are the literal truth.

Is there something about Christians that makes you particularly weak, despite being the overwhelming majority, or do you want so much to fit the myth of Christian persecution that you imagine it everywhere?

Mr. Mastropaolo's problem is that even considering his wager would make a scientist seem, well, less than serious.There's this too: is there a standard interpretation of the Bible's creation myths?

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.

World religions are all made up of myths and fairy tales.

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

Anne Lamont is just one of the many making a buck off of one the god myths and what has also become popular telling anybody that will listen how to live.

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...

Your religion is based on many myths that preceded it, yours is no different than ALL of the other religions... man made stories, man made myths, man made gods.

In the USA you are free to believe that Jesus was the saviour, or that he wasn't, or that he never even existed, or that religion in and of itself is a man made myth.

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.

but his brain keeps telling him the bible makes no sense and is just another book of myth.

You get together and try to make sense of the Christian bible, as if it were a guidebook for living instead of a motley collection of old myths, political writing, poetry, and history.

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians by Lawrence Kushner, The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd, The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder, Decision Making and the Will of God by Gary Friesen, Satan and the Problem of Evil by Greg Boyd, A Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas Madden, and Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right by Anders Stephanson.

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.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

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 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.

And, what are we to make of the fact that we have learned that the «original sin» that you required the torture and murder of your own son / self was a mere myth about a couple who never existed?

Believers make the claim of a god — the only evidence being the respective creation myth; our god is so great he created the universe and this is how he did it.

If it is only gods control of you that makes you want to love others, i would suggest that you maintain the myth, it may be a to dangerous to come off the drug.

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.

The claims made of Jesus» perfection or sinlessness constitute a fourth part of the life and ministry cluster of Christian 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.