Sentences with phrase «on people and nature»

«Successful actions like these are critical to mitigating the devastating impacts of climate change on people and nature.»

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If that is the case, some people will need an «open procedure,» Brightman told INSIDER, depending on their level of scarring and the nature of their disease.

If you're not a structured person by nature, or if you don't actively structure your day, try making a to do list every morning and put time limits on when you will be working on each task.

As she writes for MIT Technology Review, because of the always - on, helpful nature of AI, people tend to perceive assistants as loyal and trusted companions, engaging in lengthy conversations and sharing personal details.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

It's a powerful lamp to shine light on the inhumane nature of a 9 - to - 5 work environment that requires people to sit in a gray box between the hours they clock in and out.

People like the ability to control the public nature of their LinkedIn profile and can be counted on to migrate in large numbers if the feature is ever withdrawn.

But, by their very nature, the best tech ideas lead to incredible efficiencies, and if those efficiencies touch on people's jobs, it will take those jobs away.

As a function of the collaborative nature of the Startup Grind Service, and based on the permissions and settings you choose, the use of such features enables the sharing of Content with people you want to collaborate with.

I was recently working on a project where we were doing aggressive emails list building, things like exactly what you're talking about, where we have buyers» guides and things of that nature, and we ended up with, «Well, do we put these people in MailChimp or do we put them in WooCommerce?»

The «set it and forget it» nature of 401 (k) contributions, which come out of your paycheck automatically, might make the 401 (k) an automatically superior tax shelter for people who aren't good about making regular retirement contributions on their own.

The type of work a person performs and the nature of the industry can have a tremendous impact on their risk of becoming disabled.

For instance, we are doing a lot of work with companies on energy and environmental innovation at MaRS, while at the same time looking at changing the nature of work to be more people - focused.

By confronting theory with empirical facts, this book for practitioners, researchers and advanced students provides a fresh, new, and often surprising perspective on topics as diverse as optimal trading, price impact, the fragile nature of liquidity, and even the reasons why people trade at all.

Jefferson said some critical things about religion and human nature - that were spot on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group of people to the point that he wanted them gone.

Surely he is aware that millions of people have relied on that same method throughout history, and through it have come to diametrically and often violently opposed conclusions about the identity, nature, and desires of the being they claim to be perceiving.

How sad to claim to be a chaplain and not be able to tell a dying patient anything about the specifics on the other side of the veil; what will happen to a person who has died, what they will be doing, what is the exact nature of God and those who depart from this life.

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

All that, plus they want to hide fact that all the premises of their religion around the divinity of Christ and the supposed benevolent nature of their rather horrid BOMITS and so on have zero support in evidence, and their bizarro ceremonies and smokescreens don't fool people quite as well as they did in pre-internet times.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith in God does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the truth of God, trusting fully in Him, and acting responsively to His love which endures for us despite our undeserving nature.

The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and nature, the purpose and destiny of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

The first expression of gnosticism hid in the spiritual nature of the human person and focused on meditation and sacrifice.

As one high school girl put it, after she had found this life style in a growth group led by her minister, «I'm really turned on to nature, books, music, and most all, people!

This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.

There is a very good section on beauty — appreciating beauty (in nature, in music, in people's kindnesses) and encouraging it in oneself.

Through my own pastoral experiences I have come to see that neo-orthodoxy — with all its emphasis on realism in theology, on the kerygma of the Bible, on the sinfulness of personal and corporate life, on the radical nature of the new life, and so forth — is hesitant and weak in calling persons to a positive faith.

But insofar as liberal freedom is atomistic and precludes the claim of others on the property that is my person, the state tasked with securing this liberty will exist to protect me from God's commandments, the demands of other persons, so - called intermediary institutions, and, ultimately, even nature itself.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

«The Church of England has a very clear statement on the nature of when people who have been divorced who have a previously partner still living can get married and we went through that.»

As cities grow, more and more people know nature only in tiny yards and gardens, which are luxuries on which their lives do not depend.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

In my usage the emphasis is on the causal relation between the inner being of the person and the nature of the outer act.

In the Old Testament, when God looks like He is behaving in ways that do not match the nature and character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, this is not because God is being deceptive, but because God is taking the sins of His people upon Himself just as Jesus did on the cross.

More prevalent and more insidious is the fact that just war discourse deceives sincere people by the very nature of its claim to base moral discernment upon the facts of the case and on universally accessible rational principles.

To say, on the contrary, that the Spirit is the personification of the love between the Father and the Son is possibly to confuse the terms person and nature.

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.

Lower court judges and the justices of the Supreme Court have «failed to offer a «principled or predictable alternative» to «strict separation» because they — like the American people — do not agree among themselves on the nature of the problem or how to resolve it.

The indigenous people's closeness to and care for nature can help counteract the attack of the multinational logging companies on the forests of their countries as in Latin America.

Hartshorne answers Brightman's invitation to cut his criticism to pieces both in the correspondence, and in the 1960 essay on Brightman.42 In the essay, Hartshorne attempts to show the incoherence of Brightman's final statement of the nature of the self in Person and Reality.

Religion is Nature's Sick Joke on Mankind and now we know that people who pretend to be religious are spewing nothing but empty rhetoric!

(People could well differ on what this would allow us to say about God, with some opting, for example, for Whitehead's primordial nature of God while rejecting the consequent, with others considering even the primordial nature too speculative and speaking only of «creative interchange» or «creative passage,» and with still others considering the consequent nature of God the most empirically grounded feature of Whitehead's doctrine.)

In Christian history, reflection on Jesus of Nazareth led to a distinction between nature and person.

Baker reports about the response to one of his six - day preaching tour: «The men of four villages wished at once to cut off their top - knots, and asked for baptism forthwith... I said that faith and patience were the life of Christ's people, and that a profession of this nature could not be put on and off like clothing: they had better wait;... But they said, «You must destroy our devil - places, and teach us to pray to our Father, as you call Him, in Heaven, or some beginning must be made.»

I'm sorry if I went on at quite a length at this, but I hope I impressed that this is a serious and deep issue in the understanding of the nature of God, some might not be in any position to accept it as true, but it is not to be rejected out of hand as a silly or tricky little thing that people are foolish for falling into believing.

«Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people.

And even today, despite the complex nature of his preaching, he has a powerful impact on people.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Man perverts anything he gets his hands on, because man's nature is corrupt And Satan knows if he can impersonate God's people, that many won» \ t come to Christ because they don't see Christ in His followers.