Sentences with phrase «on the head of a pin»

Which side would you weigh in on (or are we arguing about angels dancing on the head of a pin)?

How about «how many angels fit on the head of a pin»?

Remember how many angels can sit on the head of a pin.

A modern claim equivalent to the medieval question of how many angels on the head of a pin, and equally meaningless.

The inmates are holding a debate, and the angels are watching from their perches on the heads of pins.

The bickering, name calling, and argumentation on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin does not draw people to Christ.

Throwing past «data» at one another trying to extrapolate some truth about the future is just arguing about the number of fairies on the head of a pin (since it's Easter, I'm feeling a little Catholic today).

In a 1959 speech, physicist Richard Feynman wondered whether crafty researchers would one day find a way to write an encyclopedia on the head of a pin.

Really, we could be arguing about angels on the head of the pin for hours here...

Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate Apr 30 Our mitigation community, from academics to NGOs, are now little more than well - meaning angels inventing elaborate new dances to perform on the head of a pin.

How long can you expect to dance on the head of a pin without getting called a prick?

That was written in a time when it was true, before Christians argued over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, whether to use grape juiceor wine in the communion class, and whether women should wear doilies on their head when they pray, and a myriad of other stupid destructive timewasting ideologies designed to keep us running around with 1 foot nailed to the floor.

Yebbut data can be argued over in the same way as angels on the head of a pin.

I would personally like to see pixies dancing on the head of pin, but that won't happen either.

Add the Judas question to the list with «how many angels dance on the head of a pin» or the hilarious «can God create a boulder He can't lift».

They're far too busy with helping others, caring for others, providing food and comfort for others, and serving others to spend time worrying about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

I've been told, «I won't go there simply because it's like your telling me, «Let's suppose a billion angels could dance on the head of a pin, just hypothetically speaking.»

As long as we're already talking fiction, could you do your next article about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

I'm unconvinced that any of you know how many angels dance on the head of a pin and really, I don't care.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

And again, this whole discussion largely devolves into «how many angels are dancing on the head of a pin».

I'd prefer not to read your blather, Russ, since all of it is pretty much about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

On a side note, I love to laugh out loud at this issue when Xtians argue over how many angels dance on the head of a pin.

Every time there was some ridiculous little quibble over theology or doctrine (like how many angels could dance on the head of a pin), there'd be a schism, and 2 different groups would go their separate ways, each one convinced it had a lock on God's absolute truth and that their opponents with heathen heretic apostate sinners doomed (DOOMED, I tell you!)

It seems to me that evangelical tradition has often become a bondage to a sort of lip - service Scripture principle even while debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

People who waste time arguing about it are like arguing with those asserting angels dance on the head of a pin.

even that debate about the angels on the head of a pin had some merit (though actually I think it was the point of a needle).

We may not sit around endlessly discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but we do spend our lives on religious and supposedly Biblical discussions and investigations of similar import.