Sentences with phrase «over being a good human being»

It's because we're raising them in a culture of entitlement, one that values acquiring stuff over developing our unique gifts to contribute to the world, and even over being a good human being.

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These infringements don't go over well, as humans are biologically programmed to feel threatened when approached too closely.
Buffett wrote, «Bill Ruane - a truly wonderful human being and a man whom I identified 60 years ago as almost certain to deliver superior investment returns over the long haul - said it well: «In investment management, the progression is from the innovators to the imitators to the swarming incompetents.»
As Sy explains, the President - elect's picks for various cabinet posts — apart from his selection of Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services — could well have a significant effect on Americans» health and well - being over the next several years.
A few commentators over at the Lawfare blog, however, took it a step further by suggesting that not only will robots be able to identify hostile targets over innocents, they'll actually do it better than humans.
The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.
According to a recent study at MIT, humans stated that they would be inclined to have a robot boss over a human boss since the robots improve the efficiency of the team and lead to better overall productivity.
The answer, at least for the near future, is likely to be the same as it in nearly all of the current debates over robots versus humans — a hybrid situation where the machines make the humans better.
To his surprise, they talk on the phone for over an hour, and Fralic not only walks away with a comprehensive download on the industry, but a thesis on networking he's adhered to ever since: The best way to be highly influential is to be human to everyone you meet.
«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»
She has also appeared on the most broadly viewed television shows including CBS 60 Minutes with Charlie Rose, the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Good Morning Britain, and has been a keynote speaker, panel member, Her beauty, incredible human likeness, expressiveness, and wit has charmed people the world over.
Intermittent fasting over a certain period of time is a feature of great religions all over the world and it is well known that nutritional habits, sleeping patterns and meal frequency have profound effects on maintaining human health.
The National Association for Business Resources has over 20 years of experience conducting Best and Brightest Company competitions and has identified numerous best Human Resources practices that provide benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standaBest and Brightest Company competitions and has identified numerous best Human Resources practices that provide benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standabest Human Resources practices that provide benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standards.
And given God existing billions of years, which includes over all human history, that God interacting with others and them not being in the bible, they're the same, liars, lunatics, or dreaming... just so you can reject God and feel good about that choice.
Usually our good fortunes, such as our physique, wealth, education, intelligence over others, etc. will cloud our minds and create arrogance in us, which is an ugly human characteristic.
... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.
If gods WERE REAL and were any good they would have created humans first instead of all the life that came before... including the dinosaurs that came before and lasted for over 300,000,000 years and are still here today but now we cll them biWERE REAL and were any good they would have created humans first instead of all the life that came before... including the dinosaurs that came before and lasted for over 300,000,000 years and are still here today but now we cll them biwere any good they would have created humans first instead of all the life that came before... including the dinosaurs that came before and lasted for over 300,000,000 years and are still here today but now we cll them birds.
in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.
Our first hopeful objectives as humans is to decide that Good id better than Evil and that we want to be part of one over the other (while humanity is making strides in this regard through the help of God, we're still not there yet).
They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.
power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.
everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine
Maybe even the most ardent right wing religious zealots can read this story and finally let it seep into their brains that there is no Jesus, there is no Lord watching over you and protecting you, and there is no devil... there is only human nature and some of it is good and some of it is bad.
Between 1945 and the late 1980s, the United States militarily intervened more than 200 times into the internal, sovereign affairs of well over 100 «third world» countries, causing directly or indirectly the murders of 20 - 25 million human beings and the maimings of at least that many».
The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.
There are over 7 billion humans on the planet» — I was working within the parameters which you established in your OP» Well, that is how it sometimes feels to be an atheist who does not believe in gods... in a large part of the USA today.»
A good city clearly is part of an ecological order — it is a means by which humans live over an extended period in the natural landscape.
Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!
More than half of Americans think the earth and human descendants are well over 10,000 years old.
Moreover, Luther's own lived experience made it clear to him over and over again that even good theology is imperfect, a human attempt to describe and interpret what God reveals to and through faith in the daily living of it.
Her crowning achievement, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, is paradigmatic of the «Post-Whiteheadian» philosophizing this volume celebrates, and it is most appropriate that her spirit, as well as her title, hover over these explorations of «Philosophy After Whitehead.»
Without God, without the one whose death on the cross challenges all our good feelings, who stands beyond and over against our human anxieties, all we have left is sentiment, a saccharine residue of theism in demise.
Make the human being's sensitiveness a little greater, carry him a little farther over the misery - threshold, and the good quality of the successful moments themselves when they occur is spoiled and vitiated.
His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.
The sole object and justification of this indifference to human ends — of the emphasis on «Right» over the «Good» — is nevertheless premised on the embrace of the liberal human as a self - fashioning individual and self - expressive consumer.
They can't see the basic human psychology in stories about a being (or beings) who have power over good and evil, who has the ability to give ot take life, to forgive or to condemn, to create heaven or hell.
Everything in the «good» books has been analysed over and over many times by plenty of very intelligent, insightful humans.
Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.
And, even though the rich man by human ingenuity should at last succeed in being able to trick the sun into shining more invitingly upon his palace than over the poor man's hut, man will never be able to trick the Good and eternity in this fashion.
You believe that once you are a god of your own world, you with your heavenly wife will create spirit children that will then fill the earthly bodies of human on your own particular planet that you rule over... meaning that you are already (in certain terms) better than the God that created this planet.
Good food worked over for hours, family, community, happy people full of BBQ — this is human flourishing.
In Chapters 5 and 6 we considered the electronic church preachers who have adopted a «Christ of culture» response which uses the techniques of the world of the technological era, a world of means that values technique («whatever works is good») over human values.
Until we figure out that the only real truth out there is that we are all equally human and treat each other as we would want to be treated as a fellow human being, we will continue to stupidly hate and kill over myths and stories and eventually utterly destroy ourselves over who has the better imaginary friend.
In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!
Humans crave order and power over their environment and their fellow creatures and what better way than to threaten them with unprovable stories and then kill them when the don't acquiesce — because YOU are right an god is on YOUR side.
Human life was created to preside over this world, to tend it, to love it, to enhance it as a good steward.
Now, the period of an electron is well under a millionth of a second, the human pulse is roughly one per second, and a single rotation of a galaxy takes well over a million years.
Jesus Christ, is and it will be forever more the unique object lesson of living, the human being not ever, although we may be Christians we don't leave of to sin, for the very her writing she says Aerquémonos confiadamente at the throne of your handsomeness in order to reach forgiving in order to the perpetual help, in as much as not tenemos one God which not it can feel pity for of we, rather one which fué tempting all over, but without sin, according to the letter at the age of Hebrews, and the apostle John she says, whether various hubiere sin, solicitor tenemos in order to with the parent to Jesus Christ the that's right, not ever not any human being it will be the best object lesson not other than The Christ Jesus, nor Buddah bo Mahoma nor none, we don't follow to humanity rather at a God which fué tempting all over but without sin, not ever we owe put her scope in the humanity not other than in the.
Clearly, the negative reality over which the Nicene ecclesiology sets the confession of the church's «catholicity» is the tendency of all human communities, including religious as well as national, racial, sexual and other communities, to build protective walls against «the outsider,» and so to become parochial, provincial, chauvinistic, narrow.
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
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