Sentences with phrase «on civilization would»

We said the base game was more solid than its predecessor was at launch, and that anyone looking for a fresh take on Civilization would have fun with this version.

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Or, as the paper put it: «If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?»

I wrote my thesis on the philosophy of history with the central argument that Industrial Civilization would collapse and either be replaced by a new emergent socio - economic revolution an order of magnitude higher than industrialization and agriculture combined, or we would go back to the stone age or extinct.

Since he's only on work release and technically not a free man, he would've been shackled at the legs and hands for the 5 hour bus ride back to civilization.

He has also been vocal about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence — even describing AI as «the greatest risk we face as a civilization» while engaging in a war of words with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over their disagreement on the subject.

Not surprisingly, «Lord Business» later moved on to more advanced, empire - building strategy video games, such as Civilization, where he would «lose himself for hours on end.»

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

However, if you look at what the core technology of Ethereum is bringing to the table, Ethereum itself and the decentralized applications that are being built on top of it, have the opportunity of completely dismantling all of the exchanges in which we may be listing products on in the first place... crypto out - competes [fiat] in usefulness and in every facet important to a civilization moving away from analog into digital.»

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

China, Fukuyama judges, has a strong central state bureaucracy — indeed, it was the first civilization to have one, some 2,000 years before the West — and leaders who, if not democratically accountable, have managed to stay focused on the basic needs of its citizens.

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..

Every major civilization in history has recognized hemp as # 1 on its list of important plants.

I will say that it's very interesting though that civilizations that had zero contact with each other and on opposite continents found the desire to worship «god (s)» in similar fashions.

But it confirms what I've been thinking for a while: Resting on the Sabbath and honoring your father and your mother are the twin pillars of a civilization that recognizes the true dignity or....

You're right, but wouldn't it be more beneficial if people focused on helping each other and the advancement of our civilizations as apposed to reading folklore's and choosing to believe that only their religion goes to heaven.

Our entire civilization is founded on our historical understanding and writings of God and the relationship we have with Him.

I also find it somewhat hilarious that an entire civilizations lived on the South American continent during this time and Jesus had no way of ever knowing they were even there....

On the face of it, this simple fact would appear to confirm the common tale of Western progress from medieval religious barbarism to modern, more secular and therefore less violent, civilization.

It is believed that the Mayas upset the balance between humans and nature, although the fall of their civilization probably corresponded to «a network of interaction in which any difficulty could have had repercussions on the whole» (Fonseca Zamora, 505).

if you have the good fortune to meet a TRUE Christian (there are a few out there, believe it or not), i think you'd be impressed and at the very least, give you pause to reflect on how Christian values, as opposed to beliefs, are essential to the maintenance and excellence of civilization!

Interest in the Third World is not always free from motives based on antagonism towards civilization which has its source in conservative culture critique.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

There would be no Western Civilization nor any authentic Christianity on Earth were it not for the Church.

In upholding beauty, we prepare the way of a renaissance when civilization will center its reflexion, far from the explicit principles and degraded values of history, on this living virtue upon which is founded the common dignity of the world and man, and which we have to define now in the face of a world that insults it.

We would rather go to pieces on the basis of honesty than to patch up a civilization on the basis of fiction or wishful thinking.

From that time on, the city, the nation and even a whole civilization have manifested themselves as particular forms of tribalism, and each has to some degree retained the loyalties and sense of social identity that constitute tribalism.

The latest outrage by Muslims has nothing to do with the anti-Islam film but rather the unrest and attacks on US Embassies is a culmination of the rising tensions and deep - rooted hatred amongst civilizations in a divided world (Matthew 12:25,26).

The question is therefore: Is the moment in time at which this absolute historical religion makes existentially real demands on men the same for all, or has the beginning of this moment itself a history and thus is not the same in time for all men, all civilizations and periods of history.

There is still no immediate prospect of the Chinese building an arcology, but they have an exhibit of his work currently in Beijing and the group coming to our conference on ecological civilization plans to visit Arcosanti.

The present book, subtitled «How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization,» is a thesaurus of quotations from people on the variegated left who, whether they mean it or are just playing radical games, have declared war on our country, Western civilization, and cCivilization,» is a thesaurus of quotations from people on the variegated left who, whether they mean it or are just playing radical games, have declared war on our country, Western civilization, and ccivilization, and common sense.

It would not be unreasonable to see the Bible's changing perspective on God as due to the historical context... with God's most ruthless actions taking place in the distant path when, perhaps, natural disasters had greater impact on civilization.

If we accept the OT represents God's nature... then we must accept that He is the kind of God who will commit genocide of entire civilizations, slaughter innocent children for the sin of their parents, kill thousands of His own chosen people simply because they complained He was killing too many of them, would literally wipe out every man woman and innocent child on the face of the earth save one family and then later regret it.

For Stark, refusing to acknowledge the influence of Christianity on Western civilization suggests an advanced stage of wrong - headedness: «What I find so astonishing is that the people who are willing to blame Christianity for having «destroyed» civilization for 2,000 years are unwilling to see that it had any effects on another level.

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

Many folks have died on the accords from governing servitudes due varying religious iconoclasts of aristocratic secularists in many eras of civilizations.

Here's Mitt actually defending his stand on marriage: «I believe that marriage has been defined the same way for literally thousands of years by virtually every civilization in history and that marriage is by its definition a relationship between a man and woman and if two people of the....

For practical purposes, the individual sociologist, who has special intents in mind, may have to concentrate on a problem or problems of a given period of the history of civilization and religion, in a specific area or group.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

agree for the most part, But there have to be negative consequences for horrific crimes or else the thin veneer on reality that we call civilization will crumble into anarchy where the aggressive rip apart the passive just for the hell of it.

The star over Bethlehem was almost certainly a «Supernova» that destroyed thousands, if not millions of local star systems, and any and all innocent life forms that had evolved on them, including any civilizations that worshiped God.

Based on my experience Religion is more towards introduction to the ultimate source and Spirituality is the individual pursuit towards the ultimate and this is applicable to all civilizations and has nothing to do with Buddha or Jesus.

That is, it arises precisely from what has been most characteristic and creative about modern civilization: its dynamically accumulating knowledge and technology, its expanding industrial system and its emphasis on egalitarian consumerism.

Basically, we have a bunch of parasites that benefit on the moral structure created by Christendom, who now pretend to destroy it, and civilization with it.

I have read somewhere on the wall of a house and it says, «if undressing is the civilization then animals are the most civilized person in the face of earth»

I have always been drawn to Alasdair MacIntyre's prediction that we need «a new, doubtless very different Saint Benedict» that enables the great Christian tradition to be passed on, preserving the seeds for a new civilization to emerge after the moral poverty of today's liberalism leads us into dark, chaotic valleys.

If the two men was on the Noah's boat with two animals of every kind... civilization wouldn't be here.

If it is the case that civilizations are, in their roots, dependent on the quality of religion, and if it is the case that America, by the cunning hand of Providence, has been thrust into the leadership of a global civilization, then we should attend to the question of whether the religion that guides us is genuinely universal.

Based on anecdotes about Britain and his own travels, Hitchens extrapolates the premise that countries surrounded by oceans, mountains, or deserts «tend not to be partitioned or carted off into captivity» and that «[no] great civilization has grown and endured» without those assets.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.