Sentences with phrase «on the delusion of»

Morality is relative to a value system, but religious values are based on the delusion of an imaginary god.

I disrespect those that are based on the delusion of an imaginary god.

The problem comes when people think they do, and then try to influence others based on that delusion of knowing.

Therefore... any confusion is on your delusion of thinking you'll get a AAA game for free at launch.

Anand Giridharadas, the author of a forthcoming book on the delusions of Silicon Valley's tech elites, pours scorn on the idea that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg could possibly be a potential successor to Trump.

Not exact matches

Yes, but its status quo is too wedded to corruption, easy credit, coal and delusions of global grandeur to make the kind of commitment needed to develop clean energy on the scale China needs to continue industrializing.

Like so many frauds, Sam Israel's big con — a decade - long deception that cost investors millions and ended with the hedge funder on the lam as one of America's Most Wanted — began with a small act of self - delusion.

On the organizational level, positive delusion can be a morale boost for your team, as it provides momentum, which is also great source of productivity.

«Instead of doing it to protect gun owners» rights, they appeared to be part of the [non-existent, right - wing paranoid delusion of an] assault on gun owners» rights,» he said.

«Hitler was not insane or deranged, or suffering from drug - induced delusions,» he writes, «or laboring under the effects of some chronic disease such as syphilis, or acting in an unresolved hypnotic trance: on the contrary, he was sane according to any reasonable definition of the term, and fully responsible for his actions.»

Dispelling Myths # 5 and # 6: «Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowdfunding» by NCFA Canada on August 18, 2013

If you want to buy this book click here: The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

If they later educate themselves out of their insane delusions, then fine, but WE — the SANE ones, shouldn't rationalize WHY they're stupid — we should just acknowledge they are stupid and move on.

Delusions get people crazy and then they might kill or not depending on what sort of things they are thinking about.

But you hold on to you delusions of nefarious conspiracy and complicity.

Sorry, you believe that the majority of western civilization is built on a delusion or that somehow in the last 200 years people suddenly grew special reasoning skills never known to man before.

These people are are large block of voters and make decisions that affect us all based on these delusions.

Is that why they go to great lengths to force their delusions on the rest of society?

The suggestion that life in gilded cage is better or worse than the life of the owner who changes the paper on the bottom and puts food in the dish is a godless delusion.

Religious people pushing their delusions and blind certainty of reality on others.

If you accept that ignorance is bliss for us religious believers, why do you get off on robbing us of our happy delusions?

But thank God we are here 2000 years later, on the other side of centuries of horrific manifestations of our own delusions and unrepentant quest for power.

issue here is they believe it their moral right to enforce their delusions on the rest of the world.

That purported experts on mental illness should enable the acting - out of a cultural delusion is egregious enough.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

Once you fully let go of that delusion and see us for what we are, just another specie vying for survival and dominance based on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death, suffering, and destruction on other people, there is less cause for cynicism.

Religion is a mental illness and those that insist on perpetuating the fantasies, delusions and lies hold those of us, that see it for what it is, hostage.

No, only the dimwits with an agenda to force their delusion on the sane part of society do.

Your beliefs are important to others because many of your cult's members want to impose their views on others through the legislative process and the more extreme members would like to create a theocracy based on your delusions.

Dawkins said: «I'm thrilled to see The God Delusion come to life on stage for the first time and for the message of the book to be given a new lease of life in this exciting way, it's going to be a treat for audiences.»

That makes a difference to me, just as not living my life on drugs or under the influence of some other delusions.

Dr. Peter Boghossian, professor of philosophy at Portland State University, in a great talk on faith - based epistemology: «I disagree with granting religious delusion as an exemption, and I want to mention there's a budding young scholar here at Portland State University, Renee Barnett [sp?]

You communicate on the level of a 6th grader with delusions of grandeur.

When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.

two other people arguing will need to work that out not you so if you stay out of it it usually works out... god is psychological security for those who need it... nothing wrong with that but reality will soon come calling... usually on a death bed when people for the first time really see they are alone... or you can beleieve a delusion... whatever makes you feel better.

Those of us who are not sucked into the delusion of religion evaluate it on empirical evidence, not emotional evidence.

The other is based on self delusion, suspension of disbelief, wishful thinking ingratiating kowtowing to a mythical deity.

Thus the God takes pleasure in arraying the lily in a garb more glorious than that of Solomon; but if there could be any thought of an understanding here, would it not be a sorry delusion of the lily's, if when it looked upon its fine raiment it thought that it was on account of the raiment that the God loved it?

Au contraire, Keith, I think that Reality is bravely tackling a problem (religious delusion) head on, where many of the inflicted (the religious) dwell.

It is a suitable acclamation for a remarkably good book on faith and science, which comes to publication providentially ahead of Richard Dawkins's autumn offering, The God Delusion.

And should one run the risk of losing faith by examining its true foundations, he is certain to be chilled by the dictum, in Hebrews 6:4 - 6, that «It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they fall away, to renew them again...» Those who originated a religion based on deception and delusion clearly knew that if the conditioning broke down or wore off, it could not work again.

If you are wrong and jesus is false, then the amount of your life wasted on a delusion would be truly sad.

@End, True, I wouldn't claim to know that religion won't be classified as a mental illness on those grounds, but it would be so inconsistent were that to happen that, barring political agendas, I would imagine that the field would reel from such an obvious bias against one particular type of delusion while ignoring so many others.

«Faith is a device of self - delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up.

But Hell is not a creation, just a result — not a result of creative will, but of human choices, based on the delusion that we can do better than God.

ah geez, so true, at bible school we were so brainwashed to believe they were on another plain that you soon felt like there was a gap between your connection to reality and the delusion of superspirituality

Fortunately, it is exactly that insistence on delusion and denial, and this refusal to accept or adapt to the realities of the modern world, that is causing organized religion in the US to crumble more and more rapidly.

Some are just more prone to delusion and mental illness because they are mentally to weak to handle the reality of life on earth is all you got, nothing more.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Christians are some of the most kind hearted people I meet on a consistant basis, a lot of them come from good homes and really choose to do good, but with their delusions and conviction in hallucination, they terrify me that they have real decision making power in the US...