Sentences with phrase «of imaginary things»

Preschool children are often afraid of imaginary things like monsters hiding under the bed.

Very young children are often afraid of imaginary things like monsters hiding under the bed.

As noted above, pre-school children's fears of imaginary things, such as fearing that monsters are under the bed, shows their use of imagination in thinking and play.

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you can believe in a lot of things without having to believe in an imaginary friend in the sky.

I would love for one of you supposed «adults» who believe in imaginary things like satan and hell and men who rise from the dead to answer this.

the bland fact of the matter is — i don't need to do a thing to disprove the existence of an imaginary man in the sky.

So he is to blame but it is because of his belief in imaginary things.

A debate on the what or which imaginary things can take control of which people.

I am pointing out the absurdity of your position, which credits your imaginary buddy with a few particular behaviors, but who ignores things he really should be helping with.

Our brains are built to intuitively grasp natural numbers, we need education to learn about zero and the rest, our brains are built to seek refuge from the unexplainable, the unknown holds some danger, so the brain has mechanisms of inventing imaginary supernatural creatures to help make sense of things that are beyond our knowledge and understanding.

Why is there so much fear of death that so many people need to beleive in imaginary things to soothe their fears??

If the only reason you do the right thing is the fear of punishment or because an imaginary sky wizard told you to, you're not really that good a person.

I would agree that it's a silly ritual that has no direct impact (of course, I would also state that there is no soul, so it's hard to have an impact on an imaginary thing).

None of what they do proves the existence of their imaginary deities or whatever imaginary things they hold dear in their heads.

Definition of MYTH 1a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst - itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths

The Bible will always be a valuable book for people curious as to what people believed in lieu of facts during the times when people, mostly Europeans and people dominated by Europeans, ordered their lives and justified the things they did by appealing to an imaginary God.

The general idea is that there is as much proof for a deity they call the «Flying Spaghetti Monster» as there is for a loving, Triune God (or any other deity), so they «worship» an imaginary, spaghetti - like thing and conclude their prayers with «Ramen» instead of «Amen,» which is admittedly clever.

I do those things because they are the right thing to do not because I am afraid of some imaginary guy in the sky.

Maybe you need to «go humble» and admit that WE DO N'T KNOW a lot of things (yet), and quit making up imaginary scenarios, with absolutely no verified evidence, to explain the unknown.

First of all I find it ironic for you to be commenting on such for as far as you are concerned there is no such thing as God as believers would talk of, but just an «imaginary friend» in the alleigance to Hawardism, a United Nations of Spiritualiy and the goddess Sophia.

From Merriam Webster: Myth 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst.itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths 1.

If you have an opinion, perhaps if you expressed it in a different way it would be easier for us to understand your particular brand of emotional blindness and personal delusions you may have trouble getting rid of and we could help you understand how some things you believe are clearly untrue and imaginary... or whatever.

They have this thing when you are asleep called a «dream», where people talk to you and do all sorts of stuff that is IMAGINARY.

yes by the look of things i want wilshere and podolski to play alongside oxlade chamberlain, Sanchez and welbeck, hoping that a imaginary 6.2 + CDM pops up from nowhere to help win against man utd rather than letting the reckless 2nd division player Flamini!

I believe the man utd tragedy is referred to as the Munich air disaster... The real Munich disaster involved a beer hall in 1920 and the germination of a mad dictator who eventually unleashed untold mayhem and bloodshed and became a delusional manager holed up in a bunker (or was that a dug out) ordering loyal underlings to push around imaginary artillery (aka giroud and Walcott) that would retake the Soviet Union (or perhaps the EPL CL and FA Cup I forget) by reviving the glory years when things were going his way... Hmmm history is a funny thing

Bogeyman Noun An imaginary evil spirit used to frighten children - A person or thing widely regarded as an object of fear There was once a story that was told all across world.

Children this age love to pretend and play imaginary games, and one of the things they like best is imitating Mom and Dad.

Your preschooler's imagination is taking off: Playing make - believe is a hallmark of this age, along with fears about imaginary monsters and more ordinary things such as the dark or the vacuum cleaner.

As Singer points out, having an imaginary friend offers a child several benefits, including «providing a companion they have a certain degree of control over and having a ready - made scapegoat for when things go wrong.»

Brewing an imaginary pot of tea is a really good thing for the earth when young hosts use the environmentally friendly tea set from green toys.

BTW some of you stated you eat 2500 to 4000 a day (like it's a small ammount)-- this is WAY TOO MUCH if you want to slim down or even maintain... I agree with your points here tho, and I'm very pleased someone is blunt about these things because most people should hear it, but don't want to listen, because why blame yourself for your shortcomings if you can blame your imaginary «bad genes»?

And now as my imaginary Sephora cart fills up again, I have to talk through some of the things that have caught my attention in the last couple of weeks.

I mean, I walked into Home Goods the other day and nearly started loading up a cart full of things to decorate my imaginary patio!

As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, the friends are forced to deal with the impending collision between their public, private and imaginary lives.

As Dahlia learns more about the residents of the vacant apartment, she starts questioning her own sanity as well as that of Ceci, who has a new imaginary friend who knows things she shouldn't know.

One of the main problems here is that the film lacks any striking focal point — there's evil evident, right enough, but when the only form it takes is a levitating oinker, a self - jamming door and an imaginary kiddie called «Jody», it's pretty difficult to enter into the spirit of things.

As the imaginary Scrooge, he becomes the haunting voice of Dickens's own conscience as he finds himself saying and doing terrible things.

«One of the things you have to do as a critic, particularly with these home - viewing screeners we get, is sometimes I've had to apply an imaginary audience in my head as part of that experience,» Columbus Alive's Keefe says.

It reminds, of all things, of Dan Harris's Imaginary Heroes (also starring Michelle Williams), in that it's a rather meticulously - detailed period piece that fails almost completely to offer up any human interest in its pursuit of human truth.

After a semester of early morning classes where we discussed things such as imaginary numbers, I decided that math was not actually the route for me.

While it can be frustrating while conversing with them about real business factors instead of imaginary conspiracies, their screams do get things moving faster.

Of The Displaced, The Economist says that «If the world's 65.5 million forcibly displaced people formed their own country, it would be the 21st - largest... one of the many things that this imaginary nation lacks... is a literary canoOf The Displaced, The Economist says that «If the world's 65.5 million forcibly displaced people formed their own country, it would be the 21st - largest... one of the many things that this imaginary nation lacks... is a literary canoof the many things that this imaginary nation lacks... is a literary canon.

Skateboarder Sam is blindsided when his girlfriend becomes pregnant, but he has a sort - of - imaginary friend, superskater Tony Hawk, to hash things out with.

One interesting thing about this novel is that Whitehead moves back and forth from the real, some of which is horrible, and the imaginary.

Special Relationships The recent update at PvPOnline (Friday 5th April) highlights some of the greatest things that the webcomics model / medium offers it's readers — the story Kurtz tells in the blog post is that he received an email from a reader regarding an imaginary friend that their daughter had created, which was related to Skull the Troll (character from PvP)-- The result, after a short communique between the adults, was a new strip introducing that character to the public, and to the canonical PvP universe.

«The one thing I remembered and missed from the before - the - war Sarajevo,» he says, «was a kind of unspoken belief that everyone could be whatever they claimed they were — each life, however imaginary, could be validated by its rightful, sovereign owner, from the inside.»

So the precise shape of the efficient frontier is mostly an imaginary thing.

It's not unheard of for dogs to nose air - dirt over their food bowls, push imaginary soil over their bones, and do other weird things in the name of apartment survival.

In this imaginary underwater city, there is recycling, public health, advertising and lots of other things familiar from our own communities.

But one thing is for certain: it was a hell of a marketing campaign, because EA and Activisions bickering helped to draw attention to both titles and the imaginary war between them, as well as helping to spark even more fanboy fueled forum arguments.