Sentences with phrase «of looking at the world which»

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which can not be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

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We should be looking at expanding the huge untapped markets of the developing world, which have a sustainable future of great potential,» according to one respondent.

«If you look at it, medical health activity is the largest or second - largest component of the economy, depending on which country in the world you're dealing with,» Cook said.

Nokia's OZO VR cameras made their debut around 2015 at a time when Nokia looked like it had all but given up on hardware, after seeing its mobile phone business — once the biggest in the world — get decimated by the rise of Android and the iPhone and eventually sold off to Microsoft (which continued to wind it down after also failing to resuscitate it).

Most recently, Mark pioneered the design of the Employee Experience at Airbnb, which was recognized as the # 1 Place to Work in 2016 by Glassdoor, and which has since inspired significant changes in the way organizations around the world are looking to expand the HR function to focus on the entire employee journey.

Now, talking about what is specifically happening with the US dollar, it might be interesting for people to look at the data provided by the World Bank, in which the World Bank provides the ratio between purchasing power parities and nominal exchange rates of countries, comparing it with the US dollar.

I am looking for economic tipping points ie points at which everyone knew the world of economics had changed.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

Eventually I got hold of Christian Schwarz's book «Natural Church Development» which was developed based on his research with thousands of churches across the world looked at the «quality» of churches because his findings seemed to surprisingly indicate that the quality of a church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth of a church.

It remains, rather, a magazine for the religious» a journal in which those with the resources of religion can look out at the world and comment on both the passing scene and the deepest things.

Through his years in the earthly hell of the Soviet prison system, to the publication of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichin 1962, and, later, the multivolume Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn challenged the world to look unblinkingly at the good and, with relentless specificity, the evil of which we are capable.

But when we look at the world around us, we find many instances of apparently pointless suffering from which no greater purpose seems to result.

It ought to be apparent that in most respects this conception of God, which Charles Hartshorne has called «neoclassical theism» or «the di - polar conception of God,» is a natural consequence of the more general process way of seeing things or looking at the world.

Please... «study after study»... look at the state - sanctioned «godless» nations of the world... China, North Korea, Cuba... as I've stated... Hitler's regime was based largely on the theory of evolution which led to «eugenics» which led to «building a better man»... they touted their «science» and «reason».

When I face arguments which confidently tell me that all must (metaphysically must) be for the best and then look at the incidence of evil in the world, my sympathies are with Voltaire in caricaturing the Leibnizian Dr. Pangloss.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

For example, he said, look at the Buddhist theory of impermanence, the idea that the physical world is changing by the second, which was later proved by quantum physics in the movement of atoms.

He drew out of the New Testament, and particularly from the faith of the apostles as they looked back at the cross of Jesus, the belief that it was the world which was dying, not God who was dead.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

This insight opens the way to a fresh look at that harsh separation of the world into an outer world in which objects interact inexorably by cause and effect, and an inner world in which we experience ourselves as active agents.

Looking at and observing the object, we make it part of an objective world with which we do not enter into relationship.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

The next chapter looks at Judaism and Islam which, together with Christianity, account for 54 per cent of the world's current population.

This cheerful way of looking at the world, which is part of the very structure of American culture, can be seen in the experience of all newcomers to the country of what the sociologist John Murray Cuddihy has aptly called the «ordeal of civility.»

At one extreme there are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because of their belief in the authority and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden end and when, at the Judgment which follows, there will be a general resurrection of all the dead in some bodily forAt one extreme there are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because of their belief in the authority and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden end and when, at the Judgment which follows, there will be a general resurrection of all the dead in some bodily forat the Judgment which follows, there will be a general resurrection of all the dead in some bodily form.

This chapter looks at one side of the Bible's ambiguity where we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations.

«With man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative property of thought, she has at last been able to achieve, throughout an entire living group, a total synthesis of which the process is still clearly apparent, if we trouble to look, in the «scaled» structure of the modern human world.

i have a painting at home which i did 5 or 6 years ago of a figure standing behind golden bars of light the painting depicts i mysef as christ bringing to surface the ideas of cosmic conciousness to to the world around us there is great symmetry in the simplicity of both paintings if christ was alive today he might well be looking at the world though caged iron bars

«The best view is by no means the closest view... we consciously stand back and create distance in order to look at the world, i.e., at objects as parts of the world: and also to be unembarrassed by the closeness of that which we wish only to see; to have the full liberty of our scanning attention.»

Which is why we need smart TV more than ever, because fiction in all forms still steals past the watchful dragons of our own presuppositions and prejudices and helps us look at the world in a different light.

Again, this event which comes to the man can not be an occurrence to be looked at objectively, a part of the world of objects constituting man's environment, which can be observed and analyzed in order to establish the fact that it is the event of forgiveness, to which the man can now relate himself.

Our educational task, if we accept Whitehead's view of metaphysics, is to assist the student to look on the world or the universe as a process or organism in which God is at work; to understand how God can be in our midst and yet stand behind the process as eternal and changeless.

I would agree that the clarity with which I find myself seeing the world when I look at it through the lens of the Gospels counts more for the Gospels» «truth» than the available historical evidence does — though that mysterious power we can only call the work of the Holy Spirit may count most of all.

What one can historically describe as the «mechanization of the image of the world» is, at any rate in an environment formed by machines, a process which is also being looked at psychogenetically; this process advances the same object categories and ideas of movement, if only in a rudimentary, pre-reflexive manner, which might, especially for that reason, influence thinking so much more persistently.

Faith is the world's worst way of making decisions, which is why it's the only one religions have to rely on, because if you used any of the more reliable methods (like looking at the evidence, or logic, or confidence in something based on its past track record), you'd laff your head off at such nonsense and even more so at the solemn, self - righteous credulity of its proponents.

Let us look for a moment at clear cases of mass genocide such as Hitler carried out or cases of mass bombings which were carried out by both sides in the second world war and by the Americans in Vietnam.

But elsewhere he says the construction of meaning is the creative work of the human mind (p. 4); natural theology looks at the world through particular spectacles (p. 22)- expressions which are at least open to a subjectivist interpretation.

Another way of looking at this question of the evolution of religious thought is to note that any verbal form of statement which has been before the world for some time discloses ambiguities; and that often such ambiguities strike at the very heart of the meaning.

Any way you look at it, this is a mysterious world, but of all the ways in which the mystery can be stated none seems to me so improbable, so irrational, as to say there is no God, no Mind or Purpose in the universe, and all that is beautiful and right here is the accidental result of physical atoms going it blind.

Syracuse University Lectures: «Survival of the Kindest: Toward a Compassionate Society» (Syracuse, New York) March 8, 7:30 pm From examining how we negotiate moral concerns to exploring the determinants of power and status, Dacher Keltner looks at the social practices by which we navigate the world.

But when we look at the world around us, we find prevalent instances of apparently gratuitous evil — pointless suffering from which no greater purpose seems to result.

This book has been an attempt to present and explain a way of looking at ourselves, our world, and God which is characterized by an emphasis on «process.»

If one will look a little more closely, I have not much doubt that in the whole world one will not find a single analogy (except a later instance which proves nothing), if it stands fast that Abraham is the representative of faith, and that faith is normally expressed in him whose life is not merely the most paradoxical that can be thought but so paradoxical that it can not be thought at all.

As elsewhere in the Islamic world, people in Indonesia believe that during that night God determines human fate for the year to come, or — according to popular conceptions, at least among the Sundanese — that God looks into the good and bad deeds of the people, which have been recorded in their books.

We often look to churches and corporations and non-profit organizations as the chief method by which God carries out His work in this world, but that is a human way of looking at things.

That way, if you do live long enough to see the end of the world, at least you can look God in the eye and say that you've used the brain with which you've been blessed.

He has gradually taken on more and more responsibility at Accolade and now looks after the entire back - office function of the world - wide commercial teams which includes Demand Planning, Customer Services, Demand Control, Commercial Finance, Credit Control and Commercial Operations.

You'll find no shortage of celebrities endorsing various superfoods all over the world wide web and their social media accounts; which is all well and good until you get a closer look at the price of these super-expensive life enhancers!

Look at the home game against Monaco which he was absolutely world class just like many and most of his other games since he has been at Arsenal I believe Giroud is better than Karim Benzema, Griezmann, Marco Reus, Sergio Aguero etc..

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow