Sentences with phrase «on irrational ones»

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But hey, if you want to keep harping on this, feel free, I just think it makes you look a bit irrational to spend so much time arguing with someone when he hasn't commented on it one way or the other.

Either one recognises the priority of reason, of creative Reason that is at the beginning of all things and is the principle of all things — the priority of reason is also the priority of freedom -, or one holds the priority of the irrational, inasmuch as everything that functions on our earth and in our lives would be only accidental, marginal, an irrational result — reason would be a product of irrationality.

Looking on the bright side, there is one positive aspect to the reality that so many people fall prey to religious myths: it is helpful to remember that so many people are irrational.

========== Atheists are on this board all day every day with one basic message: «people that believe in the God of Abraham are stupid» (the nice version is «people that believe in God are engaging in holding rational and irrational beliefs simultaneously, but we wont call them «stupid»)», and you never see this kind of outpouring of incensed righteous indignation from Christians.

He's not the one trying to force irrational beliefs on society.

It has long been held that sexual virtue requires chastity and marriage, that the reproductive flourishing of human beings is best accomplished by spouses committed to one another and to their children, and that actions which frustrate this flourishing — adultery, abandonment, and so on — are for that reason both irrational and immoral.

One of the biggest hassles for the homeless on the road as well as those on city streets is struggling with an inequitable, irrational welfare system.

Thus, on an ancestral chain model, no one could literally be faulted at time t2, later than t1, for holding to an irrational belief at t1.

@CSmith, I would have thought that by definition theists were the irrational ones in the sense that their beliefs are not based on reason and evidence, but on faith.

I am on one hand shocked and yet not so shocked at the utterly infantile, ridiculous, illogical, and irrational claims so many of you unbelievers here make.

hehe this china phone doesn't put my thoughts well bro... its obviously coqs error there was no need of such a challenge coz it wasn't in a dangerous area he was so far out I was mood down when I saw that tackle thought there we go again fuc coz in midfield we were bossing the game I think the manager needs to shout at him... what is becoming alarming and I will blame the coaching stuff we r really getting silly redcards I.e chelsea gem mertesecker okay he was beaten but should've let costa one on one we had higher chances of coming back when 11 today out of the blues an irrational challenge thisnhas to be sorted its becoming alarming

We put on a good unbeaten run, have anomalous games like this one on the rare occasion, and then the hapless Wenger reverts to type, starts making irrational decisions, doesn't listen to advice when things start going wrong, and then things get progressively worse, as other teams put their foot on the accelerator, and our wheels come off.

«Today the reasons given for circumcision have been updated to play on contemporary fears and anxieties; but one day they, too, will be considered irrational.

Often communication can help re-direct your little one's irrational feelings by shedding some light on why he is feeling them in the first place.

Once you attempt to found a moral system on individual will alone, then ultimately there is no reason why a rational / moral will should be preferable to an irrational / destructive one - and often the latter is more exciting.

They have produced not one scrap of evidence to justify their removal and have made the decision on the basis of their own irrational prejudices.

As we know, extreme discomfort makes humans do irrational things like confessing crimes they never committed, eating an entire pint of cookie dough ice cream at 4 am on a Tuesday, and throwing down $ 40 on one scarf just because it's «chilly» outside.

«I do think we need to do a better job in communicating a balanced view of interracial dating (the good, the bad, the ugly) without piling on irrational paranoia about that one time, somebody's uncle's cousin's sister's son - in - law thought he heard his neighbor's white husband call their black puppy the n - word.»

In an age where religious belief is dismissed as always being irrational, idiotic or rooted in hatred, it is refreshing to see a depiction of religious belief (be it Christian, Jewish or otherwise) which recognises the good intentions of the people upholding those beliefs and the positive impact which they can have on one's character and works.

I'm not one of these critics who have an irrational hatred for all things Jerry Bruckheimer, I actually love most of his movies (except the Transformer series) and recently watched Armageddon again on Blu - ray and still love that movie — it makes me cry every time, yeah I'm a Sap.

Everyone has an irrational love for a goofy movie - this one (pulling a dreadful 40 percent on rottentomatoes.com) is mine.

Nonetheless, one of the irrational exceptions on rational economic theory which is observable and systematic is that human beings are inherently overconfident about their capability, knowledge and future predictions (Economist, 2010).

The other argument against vouchers is on church / state grounds — a concern that the current Supreme Court doesn't share, and one that I've always found utterly irrational.

The reader will struggle to find an island of thought in the decision's sea of bilge, but there is one on the subject of people with disabilities: It is irrational and unconstitutional, Moukawsher declaimed from the bench, to continue to provide an eduction for many of them.

But the judge, a former one - term legislator assigned to handle complex litigation, went on to conclude that how the aid is distributed is so irrational as to be unconstitutional — a conclusion Malloy said Tuesday that he supports.

Hey gang, due to my irrational loathing of all things Naruto, I called in the cavalry on this one and asked a fellow manga blogger to cover Naruto vol.

While it is not one of my rational reasons for wanting to be published, there is a little irrational core that wants to put a copy of my book on the shelf in my library.

The choice of the money manager is between normal returns on the strength of fundamental financials on one hand and abnormal temporary returns relying on a highly irrational market.

The example was used to show how irrational some clients can be; even when your returns are in the top 1 % of all investment managers out there, some people can still find something to complain about (as an aside, that is why the truly successful mutual fund managers quickly exit the public domain once they have made «enough», and then they tend to go super private by either managing their own money or investing privately on behalf of some particular clients that they know to be rational — when you're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars, you don't need to deal with people that don't truly believe that good value investing often means underperforming the S&P 500 at least one out of every three years).

But as of now, there is no such exception, and assuming one, on the grounds that that is how it ought to work, is simply irrational.

I've comment on another one of your comments, but now that I've seen more of your comments, all which a based on your personal experience and bias it's quite comical to see you call someone else's comment emotional and irrational unless you are specifically commenting on party of the comment «uncastrated dogs father lots and lots of pups» because the rest of the comment is quite the opposite, they are way too many factors at play too suggest that neutering causes behavior problems

Considered to be one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Miró created a unique and personal language which draws on memory, fantasy, and the irrational.

The contrast with the newspaper's black - and - white columns of words invites meditation on alternate versions of reality: one sober, the other exuberantly irrational.»

Although his imagery seems to allude to some form of cultural commentary, the relation between abstraction as an irrational process on the one hand and the manifestation of the overlapping poured shapes on the other asserts a calculated agreement to disagree with the language of painting and its representation.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The sexism inherent in many early responses to her work was virulent: A critic wrote in 1960, «The goddess Ate, patroness of reckless blindness and mad impulse, may be responsible for the work of Helen Frankenthaler,» going on to describe the artist and her work (and treating them as one and the same) as «irrational,» «hysterical,» «romantic, hypersensitive, sulky,» and «an example of thin, nervous romanticism.»

The idea of there being scientists on the one hand, opposed by irrational sceptics on the other has been established so concretely that few editors, peer - reviewers or journalists even bother to ask questions about the content of the consensus, much less about how it is contradicted by the substance of climate sceptics» arguments.

If the two of you feel that one another's positions on these recurring problems are irrational, unreasonable, unnecessarily inflexible, or completely incomprehensible, you are likely to feel betrayed, disrespected, hurt, isolated, or generally detached from each other.

One of the sure ways to drive your spouse away and to destroy your marriage is to show irrational jealousy or to spy on your spouse.

Anxiety is an emotional disorder involving the experience of fear and danger that is either irrational and / or disproportionate to the perceived threat and has a negative impact on one or more areas of children's normal functioning and / or psychosocial development (e.g., Fonseca and Perrin, 2011).

Absurdly integral to this discussion, it must be noted that the Competition Bureau and the Tribunal hold the position that: the one on one sharing of the «disputed data» by telephone or email (even with one's own client's) is basically the same as openly exposing said data on the internet, and use this irrational and desperate reasoning to justify their part of their argument for obliging TREB to give away the «disputed data».