Sentences with phrase «of the magical thinking of»

Typical of the magical thinking of the Tech / Complexity Will Save Us delusion, this article explores the issue of where the resources will come from for EV batteries, but at no point talks about the actual total reserves, rate of use vs. those reserves, and whether those reserves become uneconomic to exploit at some point.

Not exact matches

It's easy when we're star struck to think of charisma as some magical X factor certain people are simply born with.

While magical thinking is a concept in psychology, this, in plain terms, is how it relates to the context of business.

«There are people who engage in magical thinking about retirement happiness, just as some engage in magical thinking about retirement security — they want it, but they take no steps to get there,» says James Pawelski, who is also the executive director of the International Positive Psychology Association.

«For if we think of genius as something magical, we are not obliged to compare ourselves and find ourselves lacking.»

However, Halligan's compensation ($ 18,000 / year toward conference attendance, $ 2,500 / year FSA, full health insurance with paid premiums, 30 days of PTO, to name a few) sounds more like magical thinking than solutions that could actually work in start - ups.

I'm truly honored to be a part of a company that feels like a family; a place where I refer to my peers as friends first, coworkers second; a place that I can wake up every morning and get excited about going to; a workplace environment that empowers its occupants to produce their absolute best work; and a place that is full of so much love, care, dedication, and selflessness that the only appropriate word that I can think of to describe it would have to be «magical».

They think we're not capable of bringing the same optimism, ambition and co-operation to real - life problems because there's something magical about games not being real that makes us better.

«These are magical moments that we think at Google are immensely important in the development of your company.»

Dear Santa: You probably don't get Christmas letters from an entire province, but this year we hope you'll think of adding B.C. to your magical journey.

Don't let magical thinking lead you to under - estimate your expenses or sources of income.

Rubin's decision to share his story about financial losses at Goldman Sachs where he «weathered the storm» using his magical existential thinking stands in contrast to Citigroup's condition with Rubin as the long - tenured Chair of the Executive Committee.

Have you read Joan Didion's book, The Year of Magical Thinking?

Great cartoon David, I see much of modern Christiandom indulging in magical thinking; word faith, prosperity, etc..

RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

I think you know the analogy effected with most of the examples you provide is that like God, these beings and creatures are all magical, and lack any hard evidence to support their existence.

Religion is the ultimate example of magical thinking.

To claim that Jesus was imaginary is delusional requiring magical thinking of the most extraordinary sort to explain how Christianity became established.

So, not only do we think you're an idiot for actually believing in a magical, all - powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky and demands things of you, we think you're an idiot for turning your back on the teachings of this magical, all - powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky.

Well done in a sea of magical thinking.

We are continuing to have this insane debate because we continue to beat our heads against the wall hoping that some kind of magical solution that no other country in the world has ever thought of will drop down out of the sky that allows us to keep the for - profit model and still deliver care to all.

We will be doomed as a society when we fail to distinguish between reality and fantasy, wide awake time and dream time, when we sacrifice collective engagement to (re) solve together difficult problems for facination with rumors of conspiricy and a propensity for magical and delusional thinking.

I prefer to think of people as rational until they open up their mind and let me know of the goofy magical things they feel proud to «believe in».

If you want to declare your magical beliefs in public, be prepared to hear what others think of those beliefs.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

my thinking is that someone can take lessons from any teacher or from observation of someone they consider worth following, it doesn't mean they believe they're really magical (though there are exceptions).

I think the Jesus of Christianity does not like too many questions but have magical answers to all problems.

They can also learn the ways of Yahweh the invisable magical diety whose strength is the same as a unicorn, really bible I think he'd be stronger then that.

As if believing in miracles, angels, and magical bearded men riding clouds wasn't laughable enough (not to mention the bearded man's zombie son), the church gives us one more reason to think them buffoons with this piece of «saint jerky.»

Have you read Joan Didion's remarkable memoir, «The Year of Magical Thinking»?

Well, ErikN, they do believe that the «temple garments» offer spiritual protection... so, yeah, I think it's a magical pair of britches (with stylish matching tee!).

Nightwyn's dead right, it's magical thinking of the most childish kind.

No amount of wishful thinking about magical happy lands in the sky can prevent its finality.

What if people some day think that the magical land of Narnia was real and then form rituals to keep that belief going?

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

The new manifesto urges humanity to «leave behind the magical thinking and myth - making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature,» notes that religions «have their origins in pre-urban nomadic and agricultural societies of the past» and are irrelevant to the «postindustrial global information culture that is emerging,» and calls for a World Parliament.

-LSB-...] Aladdin's Lamp version of the bible Filed under: the bible Why do so many encourage magical thinking?

I like what you said here Carol «Actually, magical thinking takes the mystery out of religion and puts the believer back in control».

Insane people think Humans are some sort of 4th magical being that's not in anyway related to animals despite that whole pesky «genetics» thing pretty much guaranteeing we are.

You said «The reality is that Atheists post on a Belief Blog because it is a place to challenge the conceptions of Religion which we feel are a detriment to human society by proporting magical thinking»

You think there's some magical sky daddy waiting to walk you down streets of golds, and has a mansion on a hill for you.

We think of «eyesight» as this magical thing because it's pretty magical, yet all it is is the result of photons striking chemicals that are in physical structures within the retina and cause a nerve impulse.

The tithe is not only a false teaching in the church, it promotes guilt, shame, and a host of goofy magical thinking.

I think we should look for answers in the theory of evolution as to why it is that humanity is infllicted with magical thinking to such an extent that even brilliant people can not escape the trap of religious delusion.

Um, My version of a make bel; ieve magical skydaddy wants me to think gay folks are icky.

In the absense of a naturalistic explanation, your default belief is magical thinking?

This lead to the magical thinking that rare examples, like four leaf clovers and white buffalo, are «lucky» or a «sign» of something, where the reality is that they're just not average.

Magical thinking that is directly contrary to the known facts is unlikely to «fix the problems of this world.»

LET's Religiosity Law # 7 — If you think the bible is historical fact of the creation of the Universe, Earth or Mankind and believe without a doubt that some Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat of his flesh, drink of his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master; so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a sinful woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree!