Sentences with phrase «primitive men»

The level of hairiness of the Neanderthals was unknown so, «as the primitive men ofAustraliahave several Neanderthaloid characters, including heavy brow ridges, it was decided to follow their hirsute type.»

Throughout Melanesia primitive men await a black Messiah who will bring them a largess of «cargo» (European goods).

That, however, only proves that the books were written by primitive men seeking to give order to a world they hadn't fully understood yet.

= > sorry, but 52 % of the scientists that are not into life sciences (biology researchers etc) believe in a supernatural force are you suggesting they are primitive men?

Besides I've read your «rulebook» and found it to be a poorly constructed mishmash of superstitious nonsense written by ignorant primitive men.

LinCA «Your god was invented to provide answers to questions that primitive men couldn't answer.»

You said, «sorry, but 52 % of the scientists that are not into life sciences (biology researchers etc) believe in a supernatural force are you suggesting they are primitive men?»

For primitive men, and for the fairly sophisticated Jew and Gentile of the times described in our Scriptures, there was power in «the name.»

• The Bible we have is provably incorrect and is obviously the work of primitive men rather than God.

It was written by primitive men who were flagrant s.e.xists.

The passages in the bible were written by ignorant, bigoted, primitive men and there is nothing whatsoever divine in any of it.

There are several other similar instances of absolute rubbish that this «God» purportedly «spoke», along with a bunch of other rules and laws and rituals that are obviously only from the minds of primitive men.

It is, however, relevant to comment that just as for most primitive men, environment spoke to Israel through its religious leaders.

To whatever extent in primitive men or young children dominant occasions of experience are determined more by new stimuli received through the body than by continuity with past dominant occasions, the requisite identity through time is lacking.

and they are all ancient myths, invented my primitive men... and here we are in the 21st century without a single scrap of proff of any deity, demon, or heaven or hell, and so many still believe the BS

I don't base my life on something primitive men wrote 2,000 years ago!

Because primitive men fear thunder and lightning, certain kinds of animals, and dead things, they may ascribe supernatural powers to them.

and if you admit that some of the bible was written by primitive men and not your god, then the whole book is flawed.

Those things were conceived by backward primitive men who didn't know any better.

Or did some 1st century evangelists make up a character who fit and fulfilled the fantasy story of those primitive men.

Almost all that was original and beautiful or serviceable in the intellectual and spiritual life of primitive man inevitably died as soon as it was born.»

Ham, using primitive man's writings to prove his case.

It certainly isn't according to some book written a mere 1500 years ago by primitive man to control the masses.

It was just primitive man's attempt to explain existence and to find comfort in the face of their mortality.

Your bible was written by primitive man.

The primitive man who believed in a higher power might have greater survival capabilities.

A new Rousseau, like all copies only a pale version of the old, he preaches the gospel of the new primitive man who, naturally on a higher level, must return to prehistoric tribal existence in the «global village».

Let us have done with the stupidity which makes a stumbling - block of the endless eras of expectancy imposed on us by the Messiah; the fearful, anonymous labours of primitive man, the beauty fashioned through its age - long history by ancient Egypt, the anxious expectancies of Israel, the patient distilling of the attar of oriental mysticism, the endless refining of wisdom by the Greeks: all these were needed before the Flower could blossom on the rod of Jesse and of all humanity.

It was primitive mans way of coping with a lack of knowledge.

How sad that you deny real evidence for a 2000 year old book that has never been updated and can be proven to be false on numerous things... a book written by primitive man to fool the gullible out of money and make them live in fear.

In ancient times, primitive man asked himself does that flash of light followed by a loud rumbling noise in the sky offer proof of god.

The bible is nothing more than primitive man's stories during the time they didn't understand nature, wanted to make themselves feel more special than others and many times needed to create excuses for their failures.

Primitive man did not think in terms of history.

The former, Eliade calls «man of the archaic cultures», «man of traditional civilizations», «primitive man», «man of premodern socities» etc..

Throw all tradition and ancient writings out, and as you say embrace unbelief in them, rationalize them as purely conceptual or figurative rather than literal, we find what primitive man found, the need to give thanks.

When Buber speaks in I and Thou of I - Thou as preceding I - It in the primitive man and the child, he is speaking of the genesis of these relations.

For the primitive man no such distinction existed, for everything to him was personal.

That which constituted civilized man in his distinction from primitive man did not, in itself, bring with it freedom and individuality.

Nevertheless, we can understand its continuity and discontinuity with the ancient civilizations that preceded it as fully analogous with the continuity and discontinuity of these civilizations with primitive man.

For primitive man there could hardly be another question.

This means that primitive man does not feel «isolated» in the Cosmos, that he is «open'to the World which symbolically is «familiar» to him.101

Primitive man understood himself as constituted by his participation in a larger whole, rather than conceiving of the whole as composed of individual men who are the final agents of action, decision, and real individuality.

Indeed for primitive man, rationality played a minor role.

In primitive man, however, this individuality was located in the unconscious, and although it must be emphasized when we compare human experience with that of animals, it was not what we think of as individuality today.

I have been speaking as if primitive man, civilized man, and axial man each constituted a single type, recognizing that they shaded off into each other; but we must also recognize that the variations among groups and individuals belonging to each are very great.

Although the term «myth» applies strictly to only some portions of this primitive symbolic activity, I shall speak of the whole as mythical and characterize primitive man's existence as mythical existence.

Just as in primitive man intelligent interpretation of signals continued alongside the more comprehensive reflective consciousness, so now the rational consciousness came into being alongside the mythical consciousness, but without overthrowing its inclusive dominance.

My common humanity with Jesus does not guarantee that I can understand what it was like to be Jesus any more than a primitive man's co-humanity with Einstein — to return to that example — guarantees that he can understand what it is like to think Einstein's thoughts.

Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.

Primitive man conceived of objects as dynamic.