Sentences with phrase «other human failing»

But in the best way, this is a tough movie to shake, and while it believes in the kindness of strangers, «Lean on Pete» never forgets every other human failing, impulse and circumstance.

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Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.
In a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.»
@Johnny «How can something for which we are objectively adapted to be wrong, if it fails to negatively affect our interactions with other humans
It fails to recognize that other living beings have value apart from their usefulness to human beings and that they are loved by God for their own sakes.
Those who rejoice in Niebuhr's fulminations against Stalinism, or Russian betrayals of human dignity, usually hear him with only one ear, and fail to listen with equal seriousness to his insistent reminder that the sins we see so clearly in others are likely to be the sins we most subtly replicate in ourselves.
I would like to repeat, the brain is just like any other organ and just as capable of failing as a human heart, a kidney or a lung.
He offered a forceful «Christian» view of man, comparing this view with others that fail to take into account all the facts of human existence — Greek classical views in the ancient world, and naturalism in the modern world.
To make such a leap of logic is to commit the other glaring error often made by proponents of animal rights and environmental ethics: they fail to see that the rights endowed to animals are not identical with the rights of human beings.
To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.
If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.
... blah, blah, blah.I'm not suggesting the questions, as stated, shld never be asked, but I do have a problem with them becoming «non-negotiable, or in other words, when human constructed traditions become dogma, theology fails to be a pursuit of truth.
Theology written by and for such individuals fails to deal with the problem of how what they are called to be could become possible for other human beings.
This is why any moralistic substitution of human good and evil, and on the other hand, any legalistic or ceremonial view of the demands of God, fails to do justice to the full seriousness of sin.
If their sources failed, groups of people would have to seize their food by force from other groups of human beings or else risk starving to death.
First, the medical profession has failed dismally to communicate to any other discipline what it does know about human behavior.
Dalgleish's failing as a human being... is that he is very careful to avoid commitment; detecting is in a sense an ideal job for him, because although he is constantly interfering with other people, finding things out about them and coming into their lives in a very dramatic way, he must remain detached — he'd be an unsatisfactory policeman otherwise.
It is not true that liturgical worship entirely fails to speak to the strictly conscious levels of human experience; it does indeed speak to these, but it has richer connotations and implications; and it is these which do most of the «work» in liturgical as distinguished from didactic or other types of Christian worship.
The loveliness of the Christian gospel is that, while all these other ways of being human will finally fail us, there is another way of being a human being [that will not fail] that is shown us in Christ Jesus.»
In other words, they have failed to relate human sexuality, in its genital expression, to process and sociality, which is the way God works in the world.
Third, the preacher had failed to associate what he was saying with this man's point of concern or, in fact, with any other human situation.
For while no human being was ever truly an authority for another, or ever helped anyone by posing as such, or was ever able to take his client with him in truth, there is another sort of success that may by such methods be won; for it has never yet been known to fail that one fool, when he goes astray, takes several others with him.
In thus blaming others and failing to recognize the guilt of every human being, Jesus Christ Superstar repeats the theological mistake of Christian anti-Semitism.
If «human - beings» fail to help each other, «together we doom, we doom», withh self - anihilate + global warming, «the Apocalypse, the Judgement day».
You've failed to realize that humans themselves taught themselves to relate that hurting others, will result in their own hurts.
I don't think God is guilty of the sin of failing to prevent humans from committing evil against each other.
Speaking to the BBC on Friday, Ms Deen had said: «When democracy is failing you have to resort to any means necessary as long as it is peaceful and does not harm other human beings.
But a consumer advocacy campaign seeking the rule change failed when Department of Health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell denied the request, saying Medicaid could cover some qualifying low - income women and that others could sign up during the regular enrollment period.
And it may be unique to humans: Other studies have failed to spot overimitation among chimpanzees and orangutans.
As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.
He and other skyflyers based their spectacular stunts on studies of the science of flight, although in Sohn's case it was technology that failed him: His career as a human bat ended in 1937 after a double chute malfunction in France.
But pretty soon he is detailing its failings: we are overconfident in our mind - reading abilities; we use our own mind as a template for others, yet confabulate wildly to make sense of ourselves; by stereotyping people we overemphasise differences; we are woefully poor at reading body language; and we constantly misapply our mind - reading talents, dehumanising others while imbuing inanimate objects with human traits.
We hope that by using human cells in a physiological environment we can help to direct resources toward the most promising new drug candidates and determine that other new drug candidates will fail, faster.»
«I knew of an experimental technique that had not yet been done in humans, and I had a patient with no other options who was failing rapidly,» says William O'Neill, M.D., medical director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital.
Separate reports by other researchers on failed human trials of drugs that fought plaque would seem to corroborate this.
A furious debate ensued: the fossil discoverers classify the meter - tall hominin as part of a separate species that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago; others maintain it was a modern human who had microcephaly, in which the brain fails to reach normal size.
«It is now clear that common risk variants fail to explain the vast majority of genetic heritability for any human disease,» they wrote in an essay, arguing that many of the hundreds of GWAS findings to date «stem from factors other than a true association with disease risk.»
Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.
The same technique — injecting pluripotent stem cells into early embryos — failed with other combinations: The scientists couldn't create rat - pig chimeras, and although they produced human - cow chimeric embryos, they did not transfer them into cows to develop into fetuses.
The reasons include human history, western culture, conflicts of interest at the government and other levels, humans who love good news about bad habits whether that news is true or not, and a failed media who cares more about sensationalism and making money than spreading the truth..
Without loving relationships, humans fail to flourish, even if all of their other basic needs are met.
I can say unequivocally that where every single other attempt at addressing my adrenal problems by dozens of very respectable doctors failed, Dr. Lam's protocol and guidance have taken me from nearly complete incapacity to being able to function as a semi-normal human being.
Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a A lot of women write to us begging to understand why their relationships always fail... why guys treat them badly... why they always get hurt... why they can
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Every slip - up that Dwight makes, failing to cover his tracks, acting in a way that places others in danger, and basically diagramming a way for the killer's family to find him, comes from a very human moment.
Red has a strength of mind and soul that others seem to lack, yet he is also human, as apt to fail as any other person in the prison, but his common sense keeps his bacon out of the fire.
By plumbing the depths of human failings in a literal - minded fashion, one after the other (obsession, then greed, and finally guilt), Anderson ignores the possibility that genre is sharpest when wielded as metaphor for the same.
The report surveyed over 300 New York City public school teachers and found that they concluded that punitive approaches toward children, such as aggressive policing, suspensions and other reactive strategies, actually undermine the human right to education by failing to address the causes of conflict and criminalizing students.
A puppy isolated early in life from other puppies and humans will not only fail to establish satisfying social contact with conspecifics or enjoy companionship with people later in life (such puppies are extremely fearful of any social contact), they will also exhibit widespread behavioral and cognitive disabilities as well.
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