Sentences with phrase «mythical lives»

The building is cast as the central character in a tangled narrative which reflects Johannesburg's magnetic pull on the social and mythical lives of those who come to this place from all over the country and all over the continent.

It is a country steeped in religious belief, where the powers and mythical lives of its gods tell the story of the importance of colour.

It makes all the logical sense in the world that Time, Inc., had to put the movement on its cover and co-opt it, for Time's investment in the «In God we trust» capitalism and institutions of our political - economic - mythical lives is not inconsiderable.

Not exact matches

Why we should give up the problematic and mythical pursuit of work - life balance and strive instead for peace and gratitude.

You can have economic malaise that others call mythical sec stag to describe a stagnant economy that mimics feudal society only with much higher standard of living.

In reference to non-historical figures, Gary Habermas states «In each of these cases we find numerous problems such as a decided lack of historical data, reports that are far too late or stories about mythical personages who never lived.»

Putting aside for the moment the secret names, Masonic symbology and mythical underwear, the fact is that ALL aspects of a Mormon's life is tied to the church.

Actually «dan», we live in a country that has something called «laws»... and your mythical «god» is a scam.

The people that would reinvent mythical Jesus live in Matthew chapters five and six.

In Pakistan you can be sentenced to death or life in prison for disrespecting some mythical deity but a cleric can solicit murder in front of hundreds of witnesses and he's ok.

It was rather that whether you take the story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely, that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

In a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its life.

Atheists believe in living their own lives NOT living lives dictated by mythical creatures that DO NOT EXIST.

The second is that the self's proper sphere of activity is «everyday life» rather than, let us say, the mythical landscape of heroes or the heavenly one of saints.

Therefore society (government) compiles laws so as to prevent bad things from happening which should be common sense... and since «common sense» has to come from somewhere... as I said, it comes from the life experience that you acquire over time... you are not born with it and you do not derive it from some magical, mythical, invisible man - in - the - sky.

Before Jesus and the mythical Abraham and Moses, there were the Egyptians formulating various rules to live by.

Eliade sums it up thus: «These few cursory observations have shown us in what sense Christianity is prolonging a «mythical» conduct of life into the modern world.

The willingness to live without hate,, to let go of bitterness and the need for revenge, and to work for the betterment of all mankind does not require the belief in either a mythical god or an afterlife.

One no longer need do and think just what had been done and thought, and the mythical meanings by which man had lived so long were now problematic rather than simply given.

Finally, rational consciousness was prepared to assert its full autonomy from, and its power over, the mythical symbolization by which ancient civilization had lived.

Mythical man lived in a universe of sacred meanings and powers.

When it is in the unconscious, then the rational activities of reflective consciousness are incorporated into the whole life of the psyche only in terms of mythical meanings.

[10] It is not clear whether he thinks the soul is just a myth, but one would hardly think that Aristotle was writing about a mythical concept of the soul in his De Anima, since he argues for the soul quite scientifically: what distinguishes all living from all non-living things in the world we see must be some primary principle of life which he says is the soul.

Not someone who is living for some mythical afterlife or to please some mythical sky fairy.

Humanity can evolve just fine without religion if we genuinely appreciate how precious life is here on earth and stop trying so hardto find this mythical thing called heaven.

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

In the days before Christmas, when I lived there, Moscow took on the mythical characteristics of the East, as old women wrapped in black took up station on street corners, selling fresh - killed geese raised in snowy clearings.

His life is more than a mythical event; it is a human life which ended in the tragedy of crucifixion.

Another Elmer Gantry to swindle people into continuing to believe in the mythical deities that live beyond the clouds and can only talk to us inside our brains, while he lines the insides of his pockets.

Muslims do not learn from history or philosophy as they still live in the koranic dark ages of warmongering and dreams of world domination, all based on the mythical communications of one mytical «pretty, wingie, talking, thingie, named Gabriel to supposedly to a womanizing (11 wives) and illiterate Arab named Mohammed.

Santa Claus is clearly a mythical figure, but he is based a real person who lived in Europe.

I'd suggest you watch the Zeitgeist and use ur time productively / learning something useful rather than spend hours of your life praying to a mythical figure whom you will never meet or talk to or have any type of dialog with.

Uh... those words that you dearly love weren't written down until decades after «Jesus» supposedly lived and according to many many scholars nowadays much of the «Gospel» is made up or recycled from earlier mythical gods.

By the power of their mythical God, they could have greater hope they would be guarded throughout life, and if killed, life would not be over as a paradise called heaven awaited.

It was rather that, whether you take the empty tomb story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

but only the mythical character Jesus saves and transforms lives.

But, the complete lack of any evidence of supernatural intervention in the lives of humans as a result of their specific pleadings, seems to me to be sufficient evidence that a) their God is mythical, b) their God is not able to answer prayers, c) their God does not want to answer prayers, or d) their God has moved on and can't hear their prayers.

I have had much tragedy in my life, and I don't turn to some mythical creature in the sky to make me feel better!

The reliance on a mythical being that lives up in the sky is to waste one's time in fruitless imagining.

Devotees to a mythical figure who is reported to have ordered his «chosen» people to slaughter every living thing in their march to conquest.

For example, the mythical accounts of Jesus» miracles might be understood as pointing out his special authority and the need for us to respond to his life and message.

The mythical symbol structure gave meaning to all activities, and thus the whole of life participated in the sacred.

Whatever Christianity considers to be a gratuitous event, a free decision of the love of God, not reducible to the exigencies of the mind as such, is considered inversely as a mythical pattern which is merely the expression of an inferior level of needs constitutive of the life of the mind.

He criticized modern Western societies for having lost touch with the individual, with the mythical and the symbolic, and for having overemphasized the development of the rational, analytical, and mechanical aspects of life.

And the best sci - fi show on television today is Battlestar Galactica, a «reimagining» of a short - lived late - 1970s series about the last remnants of humanity fleeing a genocide perpetrated by their own creations — a race of humanoid robots called Cylons — and searching for our species» last refuge, a mythical planet called Earth.

No man or being from the sky is going to come and take away all his followers to some mythical place to live in peace.

Every Friday and Saturday at sunset, guests can gather on the Thirsty Camel Patio to watch as Zopilote Rey, The Phoenician's very own Phoenix, brings the story of the mythical Mayan fire spirit to life.

In her cartoons, Kirby makes light of all kinds of parenting situations, from Frozen - inspired early wakeup calls, to something she describes as «The Shitty Guilt Fairy,» a mythical creature that hangs around just to make you feel terrible at all your parenting decisions (it's like she knows my life!).

Perhaps the lack of praise for today's leftist leaders is due to the fact that most of them seem to be so far from the hermitic standards of the mythical Ben Gurion, and live instead in luxurious skyscrapers and villas that seem to symbolize everything that is being protested against.

In response, Einstein tried to turn back the hype, gently chiding Shaw for praising his «mythical namesake, who makes life so difficult for me.»