We saw lots of birds, and there were
other creatures as well.
Keep
other creatures as separate as physically possible, so that infection is not passed along.
A wonderful wooden toy for imaginative play, this beautifully rustic wooden cave makes a great addition to castle play, and the cave can also be used as a home for all sorts of animals or
other creatures as your child sees fit!
These communities will be not human only but will include
other creatures as well.
They are with
other creatures as well.
His duty is to so direct his own affairs and so to have regard for
all other creatures as to develop a future in which there is peace not only between man and man but between man and animal and between man and the whole delicate system of relations that makes the earth a cradle of life.
We are led to see the world as good, men and women as good and
other creatures as good because this is how the Creator saw them.
Second, it needs to see human life as profoundly interrelated with all other forms of life, refusing the traditional absolute separation of human beings from
other creatures as well as of God from the world.
Not exact matches
PsyBlog quotes Peter K. Jonason, one of the researchers who documented the correlation, to explain the phenomenon: «Those who scored highly on the Dark Triad traits [narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy] are, like many
other predators such
as lions and scorpions,
creatures of the night.
Our 7.3 billion numbers wreak havoc on the rest of the natural world
as we cause extinction rates of
other creatures at over 100 daily and hundreds of thousands by mid century.
Can Vice's success be duplicated by
others, or is it somehow
as rare
as a mythical
creature with a horn on its head?
In Proverbs, the hard - working ant is praised
as an example of a
creature working diligently with
others toward a common purpose.
However, The difference between myself and those who profess to be God's chosen is that I don't delude myself with the anthropocentric nonsense that humans are masters of all
other creatures on this planet (
as well
as all creation), we are merely and momentarily at the top of the food chain.
There is,
as I see it, a paradigm shift taking place in contemporary Roman Catholic theology away from the classical worldview of Thomas Aquinas and
other scholastic thinkers in which the philosophy of Aristotle plays such an important role to a more interpersonal approach to the God - world relationship in which God is thought to be constantly interacting with
creatures in the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.
It is
as a
creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only
other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.
But why should sense even count, i mean you people believe that you are special and get to life forever compared to all the
other creatures on this planet — such arrogance and pride —
as the old saying goes, this will be your downfall!
The people who still believe in these
other creatures and gods all rely upon the exact same faith that you cite
as proof, correct?
Claiming god (s) exist is exactly the same
as claiming Pink Unicorns exist, or the Easter Bunny, or Santa, or any
other mythical
creature.
Not eating meat is about having a heart for yourself,
as an embodied
creature, and so having a heart for
others.
I can futher give
other religious teachings that say that we are not judges (ok, Judge Judy is), but we stand
as imperfect
creatures who do not have the right to judge nor condem our fellow man (and woman) if their beliefs do not align themselves with ours.
It's almost
as literal an incarnation of a mental «knee jerk reaction» to thoughts and feelings no
other living
creature on this planet has.
As Chesterton observed, «Creatures so close to each other as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.&raqu
As Chesterton observed, «
Creatures so close to each
other as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.&raqu
as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each
other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.»
She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes
as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for
other creatures and the earth.
Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws
as heavily
as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward
creatures of
other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity
as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.
Not a
creature with no responsibilities and no tasks, like the
other animals, but one put on earth
as in a lovely garden, to care for it.
On the
other hand, it is obvious that normal life in a healthy ecosystem includes a great deal of suffering
as well
as a great deal of enjoyment on the part of the
creatures that make it up.
For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to
other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of
creatures we are, namely,
creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (
as well
as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
And every
other creature that started
as a baby.
Love,
as reuniting of the separated, heals the wounds of our psyches, whether self - or
other - inflicted, enabling us to accept and to love ourselves
as creatures of God.
In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas does not mean to say that natural law is shared by all animals including human beings» the natural law,
as the «participation of the eternal law in the rational
creature,» pertains only to human beings (I - II, 91.2)» but that natural law includes natural inclinations shared by
other animals, «such
as sexual intercourse, education of offspring, and so forth.»
Just
as each one of us wants happiness and fears pain, just
as each one of us wants to live and not to die, so do all
other creatures (quoted in Chapple, 226).
«1 Many of us who live in urban, industrial settings forget that we are members of a larger community of life, that we share with
other creatures a common evolutionary heritage, that we depend on them for our sustenance, and that the earth is their home
as well
as our own.
In
other words, an enduring
creature would be confronted willynilly with the fact of its past redemption and compelled to accept it, to integrate it
as part of its present determinateness in the same way
as it must appropriate any
other fact in its actual world....
He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day,
as did some
others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the
creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.
It does indeed seem evident that, at least in evolution
as it is seen in life on earth, homo sapiens have evolved capacities for sentience unparalleled by
other creatures.
It is based on the conception of humanity
as homo performans, that is,
creatures who define themselves to themselves and
others through verbal and gestural, individual and communal, ritual and aesthetic acts.
Some speak of human beings
as essentially economic animals,
others define them in terms of their sexual impulses, still
others say that they are religious
creatures.
One clear positive element in the stem - cell debate for me was hearing the top researchers in biomedical science reinforce The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 343: «Man is the summit of the Creator's work,
as the inspired account expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from that of
other creatures»).
Many can now understand such judgements
as that of Loren Eiseley, who did not speak of human difference from
other creatures in the glowing terms of the Enlightenment: how we are «rational,» capable of «free will», and so on.
«God» can function
as a rallying cry of one religious community against
others or
as a call to be concerned for all communities and all
creatures.
Accordingly, we may make the theological statement that God wants us to enjoy ourselves, to enjoy one another, to increase the enjoyment of
other people — all
other people — and of the
other creatures with whom we share this planet
as well.
He alone is directly related to all
other creatures, both
as an influence on them and
as influenced by them.
I'm a muslim and i respect and love moses and jesus (peace be upon them) and
as a muslim respect and recognize all the prophets that came before islam, what i want to say is, Islam has come to stay and it will stay, and all the
others will embrace islam finally, its better for them to stop criticizing Islam, better criticisize muslims, because some have gone fanatic, but majority is acting the real role.and i can predict that after embracing islam these critical jews and christians would act more precisely on the rules of Islam.God doesn't depend on arab muslims or indian or Pakistani or african muslims to worship Him all the human beings and
creatures are His property and He may chose some
others to worship Him more well.So we muslims should not be in any illusion.
From Israel we have learned to see man
as a finite
creature whose purpose in life is to serve God by the way he lives his life, cares for his fellows, treats all
other forms of life and uses the world.
Finally, in the fourth place there is the question of ontology, of just what kind of world it is in which gift without return and the death of the
other linked to my own death gives rise to subjectivity and ensures that
as subjective beings we are first and foremost ethical
creatures — even before we are erotic
creatures or curious
creatures.
No concrete, actual event, moreover, can be understood
as either wholly the work of God or the work of man (or of any
other creature).
Elsewhere, having argued that analogical concepts are «not purely formal in the same sense
as the
other categorial terms,» he hastens to add, «And yet there is a strange sense in which the analogical concepts apply literally to deity, and analogically to
creatures» (1962, 141; cf. 1970a, 155f.).
On the
other hand, if this man was human
as I am, if he was a limited, feeling, fallible
creature like myself, and he was able to live in this way and love in this way and give of himself in this way — then so can I. And his teachings are then relevant, for they come from someone who shared my predicament.
It is,
as the Jewish and Christian traditions have always insisted, concerned with «right relations,» relations with God, neighbor and self, but now the context has broadened to include what has dropped out of the picture in the past few hundred years — the oppressed neighbors, the
other creatures and the earth that supports us all.
There are differences between human beings and
other creatures, just
as there are differences among various species of
other creatures.