We must treat
others in a human way (even when they may not return the favour) and in a divine way as well.
Not exact matches
Or, as Christine Bader describes
in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing
human rights
in some
ways while compromising them
in others.»
Adding, «[VR] connects
humans to
other humans in a profound
way I've never before seen
in any
other form of media, and it can change people's perception of each
other.»
Assuming
others will say no
in this
way makes rejection - averse
humans less likely to ask
in the first place.
These tools are most useful for traders because they allow us to look at price activity
in an objective
way (without the
human error that is associated with
other types of forecasts).
The social networks simply provides a medium for brands and marketers to communicate
in unique and personal
ways with
other human beings.
As for the
way we hear God
other than reading the bible, it is
in our mind with a clarity not matched by any
human person on earth.
The utilitarian belief that «
human goods can be measured against each
other by means of some quantitative scale is the belief that
human goods can be assessed
in a
way analogous to that by which commodities have a monetary value.
We're
in love with one
other person... we are connected to them
in deep
ways that only
humans (not
humans and tools or animals) can be.
Second: The Creation tale is simply a
way for early
humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian...
In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
In Contrast to those stuck
in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in «the old
ways» regarding faith (not believing
in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and
other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step
in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in the billionyear long recipe
in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
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.
He is vengeful because
humans are vengeful and
humans created god
in their own image — Not the
other way around.
The fact that these «myths» appeared
in other cultures, centuries before Christianity tell me that there is a basic need
in humans to be comforted
in this
way.
By caritas, the Pope means a distinctive form of the love that
humans experience — not eros, nor amor, nor affection, nor commitment
in choice (dilectio), nor friendship, nor all those
other forms of love that
humans know and cherish, each
in its own
way.
In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole
In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good things
in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole
in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the
human person) goes a long
way to putting the passions
in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole
in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed
way down into a virtual black hole).
In other words, IF God wanted it that
way, and IF God designed the
human race... he really screwed up the numbers, didn't he?
In Systems of Survival (reviewed in First Things, December 1993), Jacobs maintains that human beings have basically only two ways of making a living, one concerned with acquiring or protecting territories, and the other with trading or producing for trad
In Systems of Survival (reviewed
in First Things, December 1993), Jacobs maintains that human beings have basically only two ways of making a living, one concerned with acquiring or protecting territories, and the other with trading or producing for trad
in First Things, December 1993), Jacobs maintains that
human beings have basically only two
ways of making a living, one concerned with acquiring or protecting territories, and the
other with trading or producing for trade.
Not only that, we are told that we should not question anything
in the Bible but to just take on faith that everything written by these
other human beings is totally the
way that everything works.
There is no
other way,
in fact, for us to exist as true community... the ultimate community being the whole
human race.
And thus it has been ever since: All of us must «come down to the level adopted by God himself
in his Incarnation — the level of poverty, crib, flight...» Yet
in lowering ourselves to the lowliness that God himself assumes
in taking on a
human nature, we remain who we are: Some are intellectually gifted and rich
in the world's goods;
others are impoverished
in various
ways.
Yes, granting dignity and treating
others as
human beings is a great gift, one that
in many
ways, science and technology has taken away from us.
I do not believe people would act that
way as we have a long history of
humans working together
in social groups for survival relying on each
other and taking care of sick and injured and protecting the weaker child bearing females
in the group.
I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving God and mankind — sometimes
in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent
ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each
other and God
in love peace justice and
human dignity.
The expansion of
humans from Africa affected the distribution of genetic variation
in two
other ways.
Your parishioners,
in other words, are
human and have
human responses, but there is no
way of getting such facts on a computer printout.
Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the
human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique quality of
human embryos»
in the
way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle of creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our
human brains are given to us by God... to better the life of
other human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»
An economics for community will be one
in which
human beings support themselves
in a sustainable and enjoyable
way while allowing much of the natural world to remain natural both for the sake of future generations and for the sake of the
other species with which we should share the planet.
We are
human beings, and we relate to one another better when we stop expecting the
other person to behave
in a prescribed, programmed
way but instead talk openly with one another about our actual desires, preferences, hopes, and expectations.
I have faith
in the
human ability to grasp meaning out of chaos, to forge determination
in the
way of nihilism, to love, to hope, and to give a damn about the feelings of
others.
We are estranged
in four
ways: from ourselves, from
other human beings, from nature and from God.
It means making sense out of the relations that
human beings and
other living things have toward the overall patterns of nature
in ways that give us some sense of their proper relations to one another, to ourselves, and to the whole» (Toulmin, 272).
There have been some streams of Judaism and Christianity which believed that prior to the event described
in Genesis 3:21,
humans did not have «skin» the
way we see it today, but existed
in some
other form.
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.
The highest cause may be (1)
in every sense or aspect «uncaused,»
in no sense or aspect the effect of anything else; or it may be (2)
in some aspects uncaused, and
in others causally influenced, but its manner of both acting and receiving influences may be the highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its whole being may not
in every sense be perfect, because the influences as coming from
other causes, say
human beings, may be less admirable than they might be; or the supreme cause may be (3)
in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent of
other powers, hence
in no
way wholly exempt from the imperfections of the latter...
This theology takes seriously the
ways in which
human beings relate to each
other through various sign - acts.
The new disciples, whether with Jewish or Gentile backgrounds, found
in the Christian community not only a transforming experience of divine grace but a sustaining experience of
human fellowship, and,
in whatever
other ways this fellowship functioned, it was bound to express itself
in corporate worship.
By one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the Word; by the
other, they were fantasms that had existed only
in the
human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better
way of seeing.
There Statius explains to Dante the generation of the embryo, and how the embryo passes through various stages before it can be considered a rational
human: «This active power,» reads Robert M. Durling's translation, «having become a soul like that of a plant, but different
in so far as it is still under
way, while the
other is already
in port,»
I believe that this is indeed true, but only if the counselor actually sees the
other person as fully
human and not
in some
way a lesser or «not OK» person because of the difference.
It's just a
way that our
human minds measures how physical reality behaves (some of us, like Hawking, do this better than
others, but either
way, it's just all
in our heads, or if we write it down, it becomes an abstraction on paper.
me personally i don't care either
way; they deserve the same treatment as any
other human in america, just a flashback what if the majority had won out during the whole segregation / voting rights of minorities?
It is realized
in what makes our everyday life specifically
human:
in the patience that can wait,
in the sense of humour which does not take things too seriously,
in being prepared to let
others be first,
in the courage which always seeks for a
way out of the difficulties.
The
way of distinction, therefore, puts a positive valuation on the time - space continuum and, though it sees divine redemption as the remaking of history into something new, it can not conceive of divine -
human interaction
in other than historical terms which preserve the qualitative difference between God and man.
For Kierkegaard, humor is an important avenue for
human growth, precisely because it is able to communicate something of the
human condition that can not be communicated adequately
in other ways.
Amid our self - structuring dependent origination, which
in Zen is the very nature of the true self, we ought to respect as much as possible the capacities of
others, both nonhuman and
human, to originate dependently
in their own self - structuring
ways.
Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials
in building; consume locally grown foods; engage
in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as
human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and
other on - site modes of producing energy; and
in various
ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.
Only a God who
in some
way transcends the world, who has special care for the downtrodden, who calls
humans (if among the oppressors) to practice justice, and who calls
humans (if among the oppressed) to demand their rights — only this God can or will say no to oppression and invite
others to do as well.
Jenkins, on the
other hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «creation spirituality» movement, which one
way or another allow
humans to share with God
in the evolution of the world to a glorious transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.
Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that
human beings are social all the
way down, resistance to a literal participation
in the being of a person by
others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.
One
way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not
in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or
other traditions, but as the gradual erosion,
in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the
human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.