Not exact matches
The consumer
world we live in is incredibly
present, passionate and is telling brands, «Find me and talk about what I care about or I'm
not listening
to you.»
But that's
not what was
presented to the outside
world.
It's
not hyperbole
to say, as Gertner does, that the future — that interconnected
world of Wi - Fi networks and pocket - sized computers and satellite communication that we happen
to call the
present — was conceived and designed at Bell Labs.
In a paper he
presented at the 2013 Master Brewers Association of the Americas
World Brewing Congress (yep, that's a thing), he argues for a return
to the «majestic pint,» i.e.,
not a shaker pint, which he writes «fails in every dimension
to promote and support the product.»
We're prepared and we're expected
to work anywhere and everywhere — on call, like it or
not, 24/7/365 — and because these are the requirements of our
present work
world, we readily extrapolate and extend them well beyond our own day -
to - day lives into the broader workplace as well.
His people, on this evening, were a peculiar lot: regulars, newcomers and, at
present, the
world's most important porn star — with her presidential ties and a reported six - figure reason
not to confirm them — traveling for now without a proper assistant.
It's someone who helps you figure out how
to present yourself better — In an ideal
world, though, you wouldn't have
to think about
presenting yourself and whether search engines can crawl your website; they'd just be so good that they can figure out how
to crawl through the flash (crawl through the forums, how
to crawl through the JavaScript or crawl through whatever it is.»
Finally, the very idea of the nation - stirring «Demosthenes blogger,» the one
presented in the 90s sci - fi novel Ender's Game, was revealed
to be hopelessly naïve: the true guides
to how the Internet
World would and would
not empower individuals, and whether it would allow underdogs and unknowns
to be heard by society, turned out
to be Hobbes's meditations on self - promotion and Tocqueville's on the way equality stoked and then discouraged each individual's ambition.
Since Hagel doesn't recognize the inherent danger that extremist Islam
presents to America and the
world, I question his appointment as Secretary of Defense.
We need
not worry that we are
not reaching the entire
world; we must instead be faithfully
present to those whom choice or chance have put in our paths, showing them as best we can that this kind of study is emphatically worthy of love.
Saying that Jesus came
to save us * from * religion might make for Tweetable theology but it is
not an accurate representation of what the word means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern
worlds, and how the New Testament
presents it.
In short, if those dissatisfied with the classical account of nonmoral evil currently under discussion are
not able
to present a better
world, «the (classical) theist does
not have
to show that it was impossible for God
to create a better set of
world - constituents or natural laws, or even that this is the best of all possible
worlds» (IPQ 179 - 98).
But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit
to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be
present at
World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary
to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable
to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision
to renounce the Oice of Peter —
not Vatileaks,
not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall,
not blackmail.
Similarly, people born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and who are immersed in that faith, and surrounded by people of that faith, all of their lives — and especially their childhood — can't be expected
to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself
presents them with certain facts which conflict with their
world view.
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern
world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want
to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document,
not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either
to fact or
to any scientific knowledge about modern man or
present - day society.)
We do
not have
to go
to some special place — a church, for instance — or
to another
world,
to find God, for God is
present with us here and now.
Consequently, a faith which nostalgically clings
to a lost past, a past having no integral relation
to our
present, can
not escape the charge of Gnosticism; for a total refusal of our destiny can only be grounded in a Gnostic negation of the
world.
His warning in Science and the Modern
World that metaphysics could
not go far toward
presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant
to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.
Second,
to say that God is the all-wise and ever -
present Creator and Ruler of the
world is
to assert that God who made the
world does
not abandon it or withdraw
to let it run by itself.
We do
not need
to reject or twist defined doctrines in order
to present our faith credibly in this new age of discovery, neither do we need
to distance ourselves from the scientific consensus about the natural
world.
This new cultural reality raises some anxieties, but it also
presents many of us with an opportunity
to rediscover Christian witness in a
world that we do
not control.
A «revival» of prayer will
not do, for while some previous periods have been more given
to prayer than ours, the
world has never had what our
present need now calls for.
We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the
present day are more «realistic» than any that require us
to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a
world that we did
not make.
Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation
to it) or else means that the
world might exactly as well
not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually
presents.
As far as the Church was concerned, it meant that the Christian Bible could
not be interpreted with the same guileless ease as a schools» elementary primer, containing over some six thousand years the history of the
world in detail
to the
present day.
If modern Christianity has patterned itself after Jesus, then the Jesus we
present to the
world is
not the Jesus who rejected the offers of self - reliance, control over others, and glory before men, but is the «Jesus» who has accepted such values and now holds them up as virtues.
The Christian does
not depart from the
world as it is, but he has a certain detachment in regard
to all
present things.
Neither system is invoked by name, but in their complete violation, the novel
presents not a
world in which evil has triumphed, but one in which the basic obligations of humans as social beings —
to establish civil society and recourse for its governance — are ignored.
Lament as we may the vanished
world of Christendom, it is
not present to us, and we must also come
to recognize that with the erosion of Christendom we can no longer respond either interiorly or cognitively
to the classical forms of Christian belief.
God's function in the
world is
not to make time disappear, or
to make the future as certain as the past and the
present.
If Christianity be rightly understood and if Christians understand themselves correctly, things are exactly the opposite of what most Christians and non-Christians imagine: hope in the absolute future of God who is himself the eschatological salvation does
not justify a fossilized conservatism which anxiously prefers the safe
present to an unknown future; it is
not a tranquillizing «opium for the people» in
present sorrow; it is, on the contrary, the authoritative call
to an ever - renewed, confident exodus from the
present into the future, even in this
world.
The second: What of the pope's
present relation
to communities that are outside the Roman Catholic Church yet are acknowledged
to be
not simply part of the
world?
That is a welcome prospect, provided the Islam that is
presented is
not Islam as we would wish it
to be but Islam as believed and practiced by the Muslims of this country and the
world.
I believe that my theological development will always be related
to the historical projects of poor people as they struggle
to build a new future
not recognizable in the
present world order.
They're satisfied enough with their
present existence that they have no ambition
to make history; they can't even imagine a social or political
world better than the one they inhabit.
Or, it means that having fallen into isolation, we do
not move newly into the
present because we have chosen instead
to be dependent on the
world around us.
The
world is reaching a situation in which the
present type and level of resource depletion and environmental pollution can
not be continued indefinitely or for long without disastrous environmental hazards and resource shortage, according
to present scientific knowledge.
He (and others) posit that the Muslim
world turned it's back on science with the advent of fundamentalism around the 12th century — in the form of Al - Ghazali who (according
to wikipedia) embraced a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are
not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and
present Will of God.
Maybe if Islam does take over the
world there will be an uprising from the oppressed bur seeing that it hasn't happened yet and that woman allow themselves
to be controlled in every way, including being raped beaten and covered from head
to toe and
not allowed
to socialize without male relatives
present the question is «Will women destroy Islam from Within?»
The late Willis Harmon, former President of the Institute of Noetic Science and a founder of the
World Business Academy, a network of business people who believe that business has a positive role to play in reshaping the world, put it this way: there is «a growing awareness that the present global system doesn't
World Business Academy, a network of business people who believe that business has a positive role
to play in reshaping the
world, put it this way: there is «a growing awareness that the present global system doesn't
world, put it this way: there is «a growing awareness that the
present global system doesn't work.
The great little country of England produced Darwinism in the nineteenth century, and the great Churchill's No
to Hitler's 1000 year kingdom in the
present century, but notable intellectual creativity was, by the two
world wars and the Holocaust, substantially, driven
to the American side of the Atlantic.11 Harvard, Johns Hopkins, or the University of Chicago,
not Oxford or Cambridge, became the centers.
Martin Luther
presented the theology of Sola scriptura that the bible is the sole source
to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachin
to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does
not come with a table of contents
to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachin
to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together...
To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachin
To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS
to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachin
to be absolute which is why the church is said
to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachin
to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the
world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back
to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachin
to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teaching.
It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did
not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could
not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was
not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the
world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women
present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»
The
world is, of course,
not to be saved from its
present discords and estrangements by the teaching of certain codes of conduct.
In this process the original physical feelings of causal efficacy are submerged (
not eliminated) by an inrush of conceptual feelings, so that the throbbing causal
world of the immediate past now appears as a passive display of qualities «
presented»
to our senses.
He called upon the Church
to «repent of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems
to overcome the evil in the
present world,
not by withdrawing from the
world, but by revolutionizing it.»
As
to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and His Religion, as he left them
to us, the best the
world ever saw, or is likely
to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the
present Dissenters in England, some doubt as
to his Divinity; tho» it is a question I need
not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless
to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.
well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east
world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a
world where most realize that living in the
present moment is best way
to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that
to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access
to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc.
to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration
to that which followed — but is
not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does
not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is
to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves —
not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only
to point out that perhaps too much is asked
to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance
to the past that disregards the realities of the
present and the potential of the future... so you try
to live in the past — and destroy your
present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow
to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?
Nearly all the themes of the Johannine theology are contained here: obedience unto death as the meaning of God's glory in Christ; the disciples» being in, but
not of, the
world; the revelation
to the disciples of the true character («name,» verse 6) of God in Christ; their mission, their unity in love, and their
present and future relation
to God and
to Christ.
I do
not think the proposition that future possibilities as causal in the
present is contestable, though some will object
to the use of the word God in relation
to the reality of future possibilities and their lure upon the
world.