If, as the evidence strongly suggests, the two most empirically verifiable aspects of our nature are original sin and the world's
oldest belief system of «you shall be as....
Not exact matches
As a very
old man, one who has worked at developing some kind
of understanding
of who we are, what we are, why we are here, and where we are going, I can tell you that no one has definitive answers, but without some underlying
system of belief about these questions you will not grow
old gracefully.
Christianity is the «new kid on the block» as far as
belief systems go, so almost anything we use to remember Christ has probably been used by
older religions first, including the days
of the week.
i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his
beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made
belief system that is only a few thousand years
old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will
of some kind
of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.
Each awakening has occurred during a period
of profound cultural disorientation, when the whole cultural
system was jarred by disjunctions between
old beliefs and new realities, past norms and present experience, dying patterns and emerging patterns
of behavior.
My
belief system comes from reading the
Old Testament since youth and subsequent confirmations
of it from both secular and Christian educations in different countries.
The
belief systems that gave us Ishtar, Habakuk, Isis, Osiris, Zeus, Hera, Frigga, Thor, Jupiter, Mars, Vishnu, Shiva, Elohim, Yaweh, Allah, AND God (just to name a SCANT few over the course
of Human history - but, then again, if you're the kind
of Xtian that believes the Earth is only 6000 years
old, then you won't have much
of a favorable view
of what the remainder
of us refer to AS «history»).
Cox says the new two - day APD training for officers includes a remedial on implicit bias: how unconscious attitudes and
beliefs can affect the everyday judgment and decision - making
of police officers, who will now learn how to cast those
old measures
of character aside and use their discretion to divert low - level offenders from the criminal justice
system into coordinated, managed, health - based services.
A lot
of the work in the «NEW Age Movement» has to do with rewiring our
belief systems, learning to let go
of the
old agreements that unfortunately have been reinforced over time and now are so hard to get rid
of.
If we don't examine and resolve these
old belief systems from the past, we unconsciously create partnerships that carry the same types
of conflict we experienced as children.
It's a very strong motivation and a very
old ancestral tradition, so I just loved the construct between these vibrating characters opposed to this eternal
system of beliefs.»
Best known for his transcendently theatrical visual magic with the British troupe Complicite, McBurney has said that audiences can expect a muscular, primal take on the story
of a son whose faith in his father — and his entire
belief system — is shattered when he learns dear
old Dad's wrenching secret.
The Missionary Era started around 1820 and their religious
beliefs quickly overcame the
old system of kapu.
It shows the basics about the Aboriginal culture: their way
of life, their connection to Nature, their
beliefs, their stories... It is an excellent start to learn about one
of the world's
oldest living cultures and open our mind to an entirely different
system of society.
In Swain, the Court reviewed the «very
old credentials»
of the peremptory challenge
system, and noted the «long and widely held
belief that peremptory challenge is a necessary part
of trial by jury.»
Conditioned in infantile in others
beliefs, in a constantly changing society suddenly our
old belief system may no longer work for us bringing with it feelings
of anxiety, stress and depression.
More specifically, 204 mother and 204 fathers
of adolescents (13 — 17 years
old) filled self - report questionnaires about family
system maladjustment (Family Assessment Measure - III), self - perception
of parental role (Self - Perception
of Parental Role), parents»
beliefs and attitudes toward the family (Attitudinal Familism Scale), and parents» cultural values (Cultural Values Survey).