Sentences with phrase «old notion in»

Not exact matches

The notion of it's every man for him or herself in ground transportation isn't on, nor is the old way on because it doesn't contemplate that there might be disruptive technology.

They dwell on idea people like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 - year - old wunderkind whose high - concept notions about social networks have made him the hottest thing in business.

When Drucker wrote that in 1999, Clayton Christensen's notion of «disruptive» technology was just a few years old.

Well, those same people need to exercise a little more brain power here, because the notion that every HR department is old - fashioned, full of red tape and works in a bubble is a misguided stereotype.

The old notion of leaders as the smartest guys in the room has been replaced by authentic leaders with high EQs.

The old notion of China as a tech copycat nation is being rapidly replaced by the emerging new reality of home grown innovation and mass implementation in fields that include artificial intelligence, social media, biotech, fintech, VR, automotive, the sharing economy, and mobile platforms.

The old saying in Hollywood is that «It's not what you know but whom you know» but the truth is always more deceptive and the tech industry is a lot more susceptible to this notion than you may think.

«I shy away from the notion we're a startup,» says Mark Daprato, a 44 - year - old marketer who led accounts for Clearnet and Swiss Chalet before joining Shop.ca as chief marketing officer in February.

The old notions of dark, musty and dusty secondhand stores are in the past.

(2) The notion that Putin cares about persecuted Christians in the Middle East and wants to play the Russian czar's old role of their protector is both ridiculous and dangerous.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

The eschatological focus, the notion that the Eucharist takes us to the heavenly places, and the belief that the Eucharist «is not explicable in terms of the old creation» are all affirmations shared by many Protestants.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, myths which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

In a post yesterday I suggested that the proliferation of choices for «gender identity» (legend has it that there are now 57 varieties to choose from on facebook) will have the effect of deconstructing the very notion of gender difference — or rather, to use the old and proper terminology, the difference between the sexes, male and female.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

Another cause has been the insidious notion (greatly encouraged by successive governments but particularly under New Labour - Old Labour tended to be much more traditional in its views on the family) that the family has many forms, that marriage is just one option, and that lone parenting is just as «valid» (dread word) a form as any other.

If we get away from silly notions of a spatial transcendence, in which God is (so to speak) «out there» and which is in effect the God of eighteenth - century Deism, we shall be able to maintain with the Old Testament that God is «the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,» yet is also near to us, with us, in us, and for us.

There's no denying that the early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) made up that whacky «diabolical mimicry» notion — saying the the devil caused what looks like plagiarism in reverse; so it's pretty obvious those old Xtians were trying to explain away something that would normally look ridiculous.

But most people leave seminary these days without the slightest notion as to what is essential and what is fluff in a eucharistic prayer, even though the church has no older form of proclamation of its faith.

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

read up on quantum mechanics and tell me that sounds more realistic then the notion of a being of superior knowledge manipulating the elements of earth to create sentient man... its a logical fallacy... if we can do what we can do in a universe four billion years old, simple statistics demands than someone else would have done it beforehand, especially if we had «evlved» so drastically in a cosmic blink of an eye, as the prophet richard dawkins likes to put it.

It's only after we're older once we've had notions pounded into our heads that we can't or shouldn't learn from this or that, that we lose our ability to appreciate all of God's creations and see God's hand (poetic term not literal) in all things (or worse, some have been so blinded as to see it in nothing, as they hide behind their cold scientific idols, losing the same wonder that got the scientists there to start with)

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

Once more exploring the evidence of the old sources in the Book of Judges, to our astonishment we find neither of these supposedly basic notions of Israel's common life.

By conjuring up notions of the traditional wedding as timeless and unchanging, Howard writes, businesses have been able to slip in new products and requirements, resulting in what Mead dubs the «traditionalesque»: «a pleasing mélange of apparently old - fashioned, certainly nostalgic... practices that may have little relevance to the past or to the future and are really only illustrative of the present in which they emerge.»

As I got older, I rejected not only that notion but the entire dispensational eschatology on which those ideas are based (I will save my rant for later on why dispensational in any form should have no place in Pentecostal churches).

They find, instead, the world produced by the older notion of the credible is in shambles, intellectually, politically, socially and ecologically.

Such manuals as that of Garrigou - Lagrange typically cite Hebrews 1:1 as a scriptural basis for this understanding: «In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologeticIn many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologeticin these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologeticin turn best suits the interests of apologetics.

So it follows that the notion of God's revelation, as Christians believe it, must be understood always through the great Hebrew affirmations — this, in fact, is why the early Church refused to cut the Gospel of Jesus Christ loose from its moorings in the Old Testament, and why such thinkers as sought to do this, like Marcion and other Gnostic writers, were condemned as perverters of the faith.

Why in this country do we seem to teach that having faith in god is more important then having knowledge and wisdom based on lived experience rather then stories based on 2000 year old morals and ethics???? Lets grow up and start living up to our const.ituation, or is that just another truthless notion to which people claim to live by?

Yet the old - fashioned notion of «a sufficiency» — a secure, modest income, rather than a potentially exorbitant but insecure one, that allows one to form attachments, make commitments, and engage in activities that are good in themselves — is very attractive to many Americans.

Taking the Old and New Testaments and the history of all that they contain - and looking at the behavior expected and spoken of, the notion of men being the leaders in church, at home, in the world is something that God speaks of as expected all around.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

These points are both of them in the nature of replies to objections, to difficulties which our modern culture finds in the old notion of a life hereafter, — difficulties that I am sure rob the notion of much of its old power to draw belief, in the scientifically cultivated circles to which this audience belong.

There is something remaining in the vacated space, and perhaps the idea of one's historical perspective or point of view can be used to rebuild the old notion of faith as assensus and fiducia before God.

Young skeptics like me long to deconstruct old notions of truth, salvation, faith, and doubt, and in doing so, we have developed ideas that can easily be described as «subtle differences or distinctions in expression, meaning, or response,» or «very slight differences or variation in color or tone.»

I stress this mainly because one old error in explaining the evolution of «mind» seems quite persistent: the notion that «bodies» evolved first through purely physical means, and then later «minds» appeared, exhibiting mentality.

It was in this way that the Greek and Roman gods ceased to be believed in by educated pagans; it is thus that we ourselves judge of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Mohammedan theologies; Protestants have so dealt with the Catholic notions of deity, and liberal Protestants with older Protestant notions; it is thus that Chinamen judge of us, and that all of us now living will be judged by our descendants.

Old notions of «taboo» may still survive here; but even so we may well prefer this sense of appropriate distance between God and man to the all too common representations of chumminess which are characteristic of popular religion in our own days.

One of the insights I find psychologically most completely on target in Christian theology is the old Augustinian - Calvinist notion of original sin.

We have in recent years witnessed a number of new theoretical schemes — or attempts to revive old schemes in which collective, behavioral, observable variables predominate: ecological theories, economistic models, market metaphors, notions of moral order and moral economy, and cybernetic and behaviorist approaches, to name a few.

Australia has a rich history in food and agriculture and now has an opportunity to transform from the old notion of being Asia's food bowl into a more realistic and growth - oriented goal to be the delicatessen of high quality products that meet the needs of billions of informed and discerning customers both here and abroad.

In an interview with Sport Bild [per the Metro], Watzke essentially scoffed at the notion that the 26 - year - old scoring machine was poised to leave and called the rumours of his departure «B - S.»

The notion of former Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch playing safety in the NFL might seem far - fetched to some but not to his old high school coach.

The 26 year old Ivory Coast international has taken to life in the Premier League swimmingly since his # 3.5 m move from FC Twente just over two years ago and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is thought to be looking for a fee at least four times that outlay if he is to entertain the notion of selling the tough tackler, and that's a fee that Arsenal are apparently willing to pay.

That certainly puts to rest the old notion that MLS was a «retirement league» for players in the twilight of their careers.

When Moose my oldest was born, I was strict about wooden toys NOT made in China... then, his first birthday party happened and my notions went by the wayside.

It's too bad that the old - fashioned notion of summer as endless free time — to climb trees, chase fireflies, build a fort in the woods, maybe set up a lemonade stand — has fallen by the wayside.

Younger kids are usually interested in knowing about babies and pregnancy and may form wrong notions about the same, which may even last when they turn a bit older.