Sentences with phrase «other reasons for life»

Because there is no evidence for the existence of God or for an after - life, humanists live their lives as atheists, and find other reasons for living good lives.

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Another reason for the increased interest in para-athletes are the inspiring, well - publicized stories of American veterans, wounded in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and living with amputations and other physical impairments, who have pursued sports to rehabilitate their lives.

Indeed, the fact that Fluid Life has designed its offices to keep everyone thinking big is just one reason the firm — along with 44 others — joined the ranks of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the first time this year.

Selasi was born in England, grew up in the United States, and has lived and felt emotional connections to a number of other places, for various reasons.

That's no longer the case, for two reasons: hardware has become commoditized, with high - volume, low - margin producers racing each other to the bottom; and features are increasingly coming from upgradeable software, which extends the life of devices.

As someone who makes his living teaching others how to utilize LinkedIn for sales and marketing, I love this deal for many reasons.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

In my post on that, I divided Fermi thinkers into two camps — those who think there's no other highly intelligent life out there at all because of some Great Filter, and those who believe there must be plenty of intelligent life and that we don't see signs of any for some other reason.

The other reason for the move was to be closer to Chief Executive Michael Joseph, who lives in Newport Beach.

For some reason they don't realize it's training to live the life I want by enabling myself to choose deliberately what I want to do, not just to follow paths others lay out for me, which I call the rat race, or surrender to whatever shiny thing appears in my vision, which I call blowing in the breeFor some reason they don't realize it's training to live the life I want by enabling myself to choose deliberately what I want to do, not just to follow paths others lay out for me, which I call the rat race, or surrender to whatever shiny thing appears in my vision, which I call blowing in the breefor me, which I call the rat race, or surrender to whatever shiny thing appears in my vision, which I call blowing in the breeze.

I knew what it was like then, and I know what it's like now to feel the shame and vulnerability and the scars of a poor kid and what it was like to look over the train tracks and see others who have more and realize that for whatever reason our station in life was not like theirs,» Schultz told partners.

Perhaps P is true for another reason other than G. Additionally, you claims about life have purpose is fallacious, i.e. argument from incredulity or common sense.

Regardless of one's views on providence, the Feast of Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude, if for no other reason than that life is a good to be celebrated and embraced.

I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.

And why do those that for some reason do want to force others to live their lives according to what they read in some book?

I am open to the possibility of their being an omnipotent super being (if for no other reason than because I can't prove there isn't one) however, if one were to present him or herself to me I think I'd have a hard time respecting this omnipotent being that has had the power to prevent wars, protect the innocent, and create a better life for all, but chooses not to.

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

from a purely humanistic perspective, hitler deprived others of their rights and their lives for political reasons.

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

President Paul Kagame said his country had «a reason to celebrate the normal moments of life, that are easy for others to take for granted.»

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

But, if you feel there is never a wrong reason for becoming a christian, even if an individual does it for no other reason than playing it safe, never believed in god, will go their whole never never truly bielving, does the minimum (paying lip service), and to really point a cherry on top, doesn't live anything close to a «christian lifestyle outside of the few hours on Sundays (just a rotten to the core person, thief, liar, cheater... rappist, murderer...) Is there STILL no wrong reason for becoming religeous?

The concentration of income at the top is a key reason that the United States, for all its economic achievements, has more poverty and lower life expectancy than any other major advanced nation.

Other than not wanting to be the publicist for my own life, here are three reasons why I keep signing off on Fridays:

Precisely because, among other reasons, they concluded that that which they had hoped and struggled for all their lives» repairing the breach of the sixteenth century» was simply not in the cards.

These laws were satisfying to those who for religious or other reasons believed that marriage is a union or a contract for life that can not be dissolved except in the most exceptional circumstances.

I never heard Richard speak of that skull or its terse motto, but he seemed more than others to live his life with its kind of awareness» and maybe, for that reason, as a happier man, with a more exquisitely lively sense of humor.

Religious faith, like every other part of our cognitive lives, always looks for reasons, and reasons come from many sources.

Just don't look down on others who seem to not be able to live up to such standards (for whatever reason).

One of the primary reasons we have separation of church and state in the U.S. is because of the inherent Christian need to dirty up the lives of others with trying to prepare them for some alleged next life.

That if that's their calling of the Lord than should be on salary but a moderate salary not a salary that makes them rich but of a modest lifestyle sure if they have a family living in a home that meets their needs and these millionaire status like cars where your above the people Jesus lived a very conservative life for a reason so that he was not a distraction too his assignment of preach the Gospel being a good example and staying away from any appearance of filthy lucre as we see displayed today as he he who preaches the Gospel if they have no other charge from the Lord than they should live of the Gospel

Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??

-- both to life and thought is in fact a very proper plea, if for no other reason than that it claims for itself such relevance; but to establish some concept of «relevance» as the criterion of Christian belief is a sad mistake.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

The «pro-life» ideology might also include being a vegetarian, not so much to spare the lives of animals as for other health - and conservation - related reasons.

Woman has no other function in human life but to mother a child, a greatest service, man can not do without, reason for a children to carry their fathers name.

It's has been prove again the reason why we have all these war's is the reason of belive... stop reading the Bible and just be happy for what you have instead judging who other live their life....

Many more seek advanced degrees, as Trueman says in his second post, for «other reasons,» some relating to other aspects of church life and some with more secular intent, like the pursuit of an academic career.

Admittedly, in the area of religious faith and morals we have been rather slower to discard the old in favour of the new, for this is the aspect of human life in which conservatism has always been most strongly entrenched, for the very good reason that man looks to this area of life more than any other for his stability and security.

Stan is confused because he thinks Wallis is a stalking horse for James Dobson, the National Right to Life Committee and all the other pro-life signatories of «Come Let us Reason Together,» while I am confused because I have this crazy idea that Wallis, while «personally opposed» to abortion does not want to legally impose.

In truth, however, there were other reasons» apart from the desire for transplantable organs» to rethink the criteria for determining death, since one needed to decide whether a respirator was simply oxygenating a corpse or sustaining a living human being.

Atheism offers nothing to me, it never has and never will, it doesn't make me feel good or comfort me, it's not there for me when I'm sick or ill, it won't intervene in my times of need or protect me from hate, it doesn't care if I fail or succeed, it won't wipe the tears from my eyes, it does nothing when I have no where to run, it won't give me wise words or advice, it has no teaches for me to learn, it can't show me what's bad or nice, it's never inspired or excited anyone, it won't help me fulfill all my goals, it won't tell me to stop when I'm having fun, it's never saved one single soul, it doesn't take credit for everything I achieve, it won't make me get down on bended knee, it doesn't demand that I have to believe, it won't torture me for eternity, it won't teach me to hate or despise others, it won't tell me what's right or wrong, it can't tell nobody not to be lovers, it's told no one they don't belong, it won't make you think life is worth living, it has nothing to offer me, that's true, but the reason Atheism offers me nothing is because I've never asked it to, Atheism offers nothing because it doesn't need to, Religion promises everything because you want it to, You don't need a Religion or to have faith, You just want it because you need to feel safe, I want to feel reality and nothing more, Atheism offers me everything that Religion has stolen before.

It is important to remember when Jesus is teaching about adultery in Matthew chapter 19 that what he is saying is that if someone divorces for any reason other than adultery that the offending party has only two choices reconcile with their spouse or remain single and live as a widow the rest of their days.

Reasons given by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).

If you noticed, we also need water to live and you'll find that most places are built near or on water sources for that reason, yet when it rains really hard or for other natural occuring events, floods happen.

What is the reason for the great number of Han people living in other countries?

In that year, the bishops of East and West gathered at the Second Council of Nicaea: a meeting which, apart from its importance for other reasons, is remembered as the last occasion on which Christian faith, as a lived reality recognized throughout the then - known world, found expression in a universally representative gathering.

It competes with many other male visions of the good life, and for that reason alone is prone to come in cycles.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

This is an important qualification for a number of reasons, most obviously that if one of the justifications for engagement in interreligious polemics is that it is heuristically valuable (as are its analogues in other dimensions of the intellectual life), then obviously revision, alteration, and abandonment of passionately held religious views must be a possibility.