At least that's my take on it, but before I get into the mechanics on how the game plays, let's explore
some of the immediate things I noticed when I fired it up for the first time.
... is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something that is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.9
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
«Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.»
We must so clarify our interpretation of what is presented to us in experience that we can begin to trace, however inadequately, the outlines of that which stands «beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate things.
Since I eliminate God, what do I do about significance, about «the worthwhileness» of the «passing flux
of immediate things»?
In part it seems to be the sheer fact that there is a permanence «beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate things» (Science and the Modern World 275) that inspires the sense of the worthwhileness of these things themselves....
Value arises in, is present in, «the passing flux
of immediate things.»
It is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within, the passing flux
of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
In both there are «new eyes for invisibles, «7 and the «vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux
of immediate things.
Not exact matches
It doesn't take long to clear
things off — especially if you have a lot
of trash lying around — and the benefits
of working on a cleaner desk are
immediate.
Because it's the first
thing the reader
of your business plan sees, it must make an
immediate impact by clearly stating the nature
of the business and, if you're seeking capital, the type
of financing you want.
If you're not using a method
of communication that gives notifications and prompts
immediate responses, then you want to minimize the number
of emails needed to get
things done.
Remember that a Code
of Honor is an ever - evolving
thing that changes based on the team, the current issues and
immediate needs.
Indulging in self - pity, agonizing over
things beyond our control, obsessing over past events, resenting the achievements
of others, or expecting
immediate positive results holds us back.
Even that $ 575 in monthly income is likely too generous, as a large segment
of the public does not even know such a
thing as an
immediate annuity offering joint and survivor benefits exists.
Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation
of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end
of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding
immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field
of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part
of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate
thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building
of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out
of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every
thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...
It forces me to think that when you have got those
immediate needs,
things like your self - image are at the bottom
of the list.
Yet it was once believed — certainly when Mill wrote his Autobiography — that, whatever our familial, religious, racial, or physical limitations, our actions have meaning because they are embedded in a scheme
of things larger than just our
immediate bodies.
But I do believe that we, perhaps with careful education as children, are capable
of rising above our
immediate selfish desires and doing
things that are altruistic, and I DO N'T believe that such actions require the intervention
of supernatural entities.
So maybe the ask part is just for his
immediate disciples or just for Christians who ask for
things that would promote the glory
of God.
Such identification is the theme
of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue
of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots
of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue
of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the
immediate predecessor
of First
Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»
The gospel advocates the sharing
of resources; the hero - hunter mentality nourishes itself by amassing and quantifying
things for the self or its
immediate extensions.
The prospect
of discerning an essence
of experience in the bewildering mass
of disparate
things termed experience seems dismayingly remote by contrast with the direct access to the essence
of experience which an intuitive and
immediate grasp
of one's experience would seem to offer.
But when it was within our own community, the
immediate response was to vilify the victims or to say
things that were at times blatantly and demonstratively untrue about the organization and the leader
of the organization.
We are impelled again, at the least, to recognize that the complete reality
of things is richer and more profound than their
immediate, contemporary aspect makes them appear to be.
Every finite
thing, however, is a sign
of the Infinite, and so these various expressions declare the
immediate relation
of a phenomenon to the Infinite and the Whole.
Mascall does not deny that there is such a
thing as authentic,
immediate experience
of God, but he does deny that this is the normal or general basis for believing in God.
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of the Posterior Analytics, where Aristotle describes how the mind ascends to the first principles on which all science is grounded, he points out that the
immediate point
of departure
of the inductive movement is not mere sense perception, but «experience»: «So from perception there comes memory, as we call it, and from memory (when it occurs often in connection with the same
thing), experience; for memories that are many in number form a single experience.
I know people who've dropped acid or done some other kind
of thing where the
immediate effect was a certain feeling or insight.
You can see the same
thing happen with any story mentioning a politician (
immediate response
of «you're side is all wrong» and «you do it too.»)
While the love
of a particular person or
thing may bring a youth beyond
immediate self - absorption, and reflect the beginnings
of a process
of self - transcendence, «This aspect
of personal love,» Whitehead says, «is simply a clinging to a condition for selfish happiness.
Society could not agree on the right
thing if the fate
of humans on this planet were under
immediate threat.
If you want to bark back at the legacy media praise
of the cease - fire our president recently had a hand in arranging, then this Powerline piece, emphasizing the assertion
of emergency - powers by Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi in the
immediate aftermath
of his role in that cease - fire, is just the
thing for you.
These action sequences include the responses
of actors to stimuli in their
immediate situations — specifically, responses that involve attempts to articulate ideas, to make sense
of things, to offer interpretations acceptable to relevant constituencies.
Truthfully (as with a lot
of things in my life right now), I have no
immediate answers to your questions.
An
immediate experience, in its living occurrence at this moment — that, to this rationalist's way
of thinking, is a full fact, in comparison with which all other
things are pale abstractions.
He understands that the
thing of letting the self go is a pretty serious business after all, he is not so apoplectically muddled by the blow as the
immediate man is, he understands by the aid
of reflection that there is much he may lose without losing the self; he makes admissions, is capable
of doing so — and why?
There is no such
thing as «
immediate» health
of the spirit.
And they have faith, that impractical heritage from the Jews, in the ultimate sense
of things, even if the
immediate meaning
of things now eludes them here.
The influence
of the Enlightenment, which among other
things proclaimed that everyone was an autonomous individual, has an
immediate effect on Christianity and on Protestantism in particular.
It is «heavy with the contact
of things gone by, which lay their grip on our
immediate selves» (S 44), but the world it presents is vague and undifferentiated.
funniest
thing about religious articles is the
immediate comments from atheists and forever haters
of religion.
This somewhat optimistic prediction
of things to come may not seem helpful for the here and now, because we live in an era
of fear, anxiety, and worry, and our question and our text is how can we adapt now and in the
immediate future to this rapid rate
of social change.
All this «having» students do this, «asking» them to do that, and «instructing» them to do the other
thing, as anyone knows with as much experience teaching college students as Professor Neuliep has (and I have over thirty years» experience myself), is going to result, some
of the time, in compliance --- sometimes
immediate compliance, even from inwardly squeamish students.
The only
thing that could save the security and the college education
of his almost - grown children was an
immediate infusion
of capital.
They are going to be different developments, and space - time an extremely lengthy abstract development and morphic resonance an
immediate thing, whereas on the conventional way
of looking at it, it is the opposite way round.
Two
things can be said, however, about the
immediate practicalities
of achieving this goal.
However, it was actually a prophecy
of things that were to occur in the
immediate future during the reign
of King Ahaz, several hundred years before Jesus.
The effect
of having selfish desires is not
immediate immorality but rather the breakdown
of the harmony between inner process and outer
things.