Sentences with phrase «n't make sense of this world»

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Second, while it makes sense that an environment in which investments, like government debt, are yielding a smaller return might cause people to spend less today in order to make their retirement goals, there just isn't a lot of evidence that this happens in the real world.

While drilling in ANWR makes sense because Alaska has existing pipeline infrastructure in place, drilling off the East Coast does not, said John McNabb, former chairman and CEO of Willbros, one of the largest energy infrastructure contractors in the world.

Not only does the ability to capture and recall knowledge make it more likely that a child will excel at school, but having rich, vivid memories of everyday experiences also help children make sense of the world and their place in it, enriching their experiences and building essential life skills.

Capital raise after capital raise obviously signals an intense cash burn rate, but if Tesla is going to change the world and push electric cars to a point where they constitute more than 1 % of global auto sales, chilling out on the spending and letting the balance sheet take a breather doesn't make much sense.

That constraint made sense in a physical world: a business that invested heavily in printing presses and delivery trucks didn't really have a choice but to stick the product and the business model together, but now that everything — text, video, audio files, you name it — are 1's and 0's, what is the point in limiting one's thinking to a particular configuration of those 1's and 0's?»

What makes poker so much like the startup world is not only the hard work that you need to put into improving your craft, it's the sense of competition.

It didn't make any sense in a world of new, fast casual dining offering healthy, organic and fresh fare but alas, fast food giants like MCD, YUM, JACK, WEN and more adapted and changed and are back to being the kings.

I know this doesn't sound rational and doesn't make sense in your example of the individual but this is how it works in the real world.

Investors in these markets must make sense of unfamiliar economies, different regulatory systems, and entrepreneurs who are seizing opportunities that may not exist anywhere else in the world.

We don't proselityze and we are not open to conversion to any other faith... so just get it through your head... leave us alone... and I'll give you a little hint... Jews, in general, because of all their accomplishments and contributions to the progress of humanity have a well earned sense of superiority... we're only 14 million strong in the world and yet our contributions, our genius, and our work ethic has made indelible marks on the world... So, if anything, you guys should be trying to become Jews... maybe some of our genius will rub off on you... just go your way and LEAVE US ALONE!!!!

That's not to say that Atheists couldn't be in awe of the beauty and wonder in this world and the universe, they absolutely can be (and they should be if they have any form of empathy and sense of wonder) but they can never consider themselves to be at all «spiritual» because that instantaneously makes them no longer atheist!

This is nothing more than an attempt by your mind to make sense of the natural world which apparently it can't comprehend.

I shall also use the word «play» in a wide sense, to stand for an activity that, because it is not directed to the satisfaction of wants, entails an attitude to the world that is not concerned to use it, to get something out of it, or to make something of it, and offers satisfactions that are not at the same time frustrations.

kendallpeak Your att.itude only made sense in a male - dominated world where women couldn't much hope for a life outside of producing children and keeping house.

Many of her quotes and statements don't make much sense to me, for instance from this article: «I used to think that if the world — or I — were coming to an end, I'd start smoking again,»

We were never separate from whites nor are we now, but given the fact that most things in this country are white by design, does it not make sense to you to desire a piece of commonality that was ripped away from most races of the world by white people?

If you don't, this is still a movie that draws you into a richly imagined world, and hurls action and humor at you so fast you don't have time to stop and realize that maybe it doesn't all make complete sense without a Ph.D. understanding of comics.

But here's what doesn't make as much sense: Hudson Hongo at i09 has teased out the implications of a shared world between the Avengers and Arrested Development into an insane loop of shared worlds that ultimately ties the world of Adam West's 1960s Batman TV series, a DC property, into the Marvel universe.

But there is a background, and the background more often than not is the world in the best sense of the word, the world as made, approved, loved, sustained and finally redeemable by God.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

Such a split makes no sense in our world: spirit and body or matter are on a continuum, for matter is not inanimate substance but throbs of energy, essentially in continuity with spirit.

Some of you atheists have a purely materialistic world view that is why prayers do not make sense to you.

While I'm more of an atheist than anything else and respect Mr. Hawking's vast knowledge of the sciences and believe he's probably correct in his assertions I also believe that NO ONE really knows what's in store for us after death... most likely nothing at all since that's what makes sense to me, but all the brains in our world put together don't really know for sure.

Indeed, he might well claim the realization of Francis Cornish as his personal testimony: «Somehow I've drifted into a world where religion, but not orthodoxy, is the fountain of everything that makes sense» (p. 378).

Not just the belief in God, mind you, but the whole world view in which there is some Grand Plan (note the caps) that makes any sense at all of human history, let alone any valid predictions of humanity's future.

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.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

Just our childish imaginations trying to make sense out of a world that we don't have the intelligence to comprehend.

He explained it thus, «If religions can not go into the question of the welfare of humanity, those great values to which they bear witness will not make much sense to vast millions of people of this world.

So while it doesn't make sense to judge any NON-BELIEVER («of this world») who is LGBTQ, it correspondingly doesn't make biblical sense to NOT judge someone who calls himself a Christian (who «bears the name of brother») and is unrepentant of their sexual immorality.

Makes much more sense to believe a book written 1850 years ago by a bunch of goat herders that thought the world was flat and didn't even have the sense not to use their drinking water as the toilet.

These elements of covenant theology not only solved some of the immediate dilemmas of church polity that the clergy faced but also made sense to laypersons because of their similarity to contractarian ideas gaining prominence in the world of finance and trade.

I had now so great a sense of the vanity and emptiness of all things here below, that I knew the whole world could not possibly make me happy, no, nor the whole system of creation.

«43 The time, care, and enormous intelligence expended on the process of producing the Constitution expressed not only the traditional culture of a covenant - and compact - making people, perhaps unique in that respect in human history, but also a sense of the meaning of their act on the world stage.

And third, we give thanks not in order that God will know that we are thankful but precisely in order to make ourselves thankful: to help ourselves realize not only how lucky we are in comparison to so many others (which is part of it), but how fortunate we are just to be in this world; to help us appreciate the many blessings which each and every one of us enjoys; to rekindle in us the sense of wonder and awe and gratitude in response to all that we so often and so cavalierly take for granted.

The rest of his sentence doesn't make any sense grammatically unless it's «Atheists aren't claiming the world isn't real..»

Much of McHenry's argument takes the form of showing that the doctrine of internal relations or prehensions, so important to Science and the Modern World, does not make sense apart from experience.

But the phenomenological description offered makes it clear that presentational immediacy is consequent upon a particular type of bodily amplification and selection of sense data derived from the stream of consciousness comprising the immediate past actual world, further abstracted and focused in the human situation through selective conscious attention to some, but not all, of the features of the immediate external world recorded and amplified by the body.

But in my own ongoing struggle to make sense of the Christian context of life - and world - interpretation, I find basic elements of that context which I simply can not render coherent any longer, and I earnestly wonder how other persons manage to.

My incapacity to make sense of the world as the creation of a personally caring Creator because of the magnitude of sin and suffering is, to extend the metaphor a long - festering sore that simply will not heal.

I could go on, but the fact of the matter is, if you use just the bible to map out a timeline it's a little wonky but doable because for over 2000 years its had revisions and edits so that it would make more sense, if you want to really look the history of the world through geology, ice core samples and what not, it'll paint a very different picture.

As such, this «representation» of the good principle does not have for its effect «to extend our knowledge beyond the world of sense but only to make clear for practical use the conception of what is for us unfathomable» (p. 52).

That, as Corinthians says, does not make any sense to thewisdom of the world.

Rather, the task is to find the necessary principles for making sense of the world, while at the same time it is clear that any principles which properly can be said to make sense of things will be those which are not in stark contradiction of all that realm of which, in fact, sense is being made.

It is possible that in a fallen world (and yes, this is the theological premise without which one can not really make sense of this stuff) where struggle for land involves war, and the only kind of war at the time was the kind described in the Old Testament texts, that this was the way it had to be if the land - gift promise was to be fulfilled in due course.

What is relevant here is the common presupposition of scientists that matter (or whatever it is that makes up the physical world) is ontologically prior to experience in the sense that matter can exist without experience but experience can not exist without matter.

Self - involved, self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personally).

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

The ones who can not handle the difficulty of making sense of two worlds might be the ones who numb their pain with addictions or early sexual activity, or who suffer from depression.

I hesitate to disagree with one of the world's leading theologians, but I just can not make sense of such a solution (even though my wife agrees with him!).