Sentences with phrase «really old question»

Picking up a really old question, but will attempt an answer as I faced a similar issue in my Swift Diesel.

This is a really old question and my downing [dealing] with it is hardly the first time that anybody has wondered about it and; no less than Aristotle wondered what it meant to be alive.

Not exact matches

If you're not afraid of facing the really difficult — and really meaningful — questions over your holiday break, professor Jeffrey Pfeffer suggests this title: «It's an old book that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974.

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Ever since Amazon opened its first physical bookstore in late 2015, there's been a question burning through industry circles: This retail initiative can't really be about selling good old - fashioned books.

As they used to say on the old «Laugh - In» TV show from the 1960s, here is a «pot - pourri» of e-mails from people wrestling with some really tough questions:

Charles: Right, I think that's a huge demographic question that I haven't seen any really good statistics on because of course most of the boomers are still in their late 50s or 60s, early 70s and they're not yet to the point where the older generation like the boomer parents, the so - called silent generation, which has sold their houses or given them to their offspring, their adult children.

My money is on the camel, and not only because I am fond of both camels and outlandish metaphors; but it is a very old question what Jesus really said had a better chance of passing through a needle's eye than a rich man had of entering God's Kingdom.

It's not just life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?

This has been encouraged by our knowledge of the different sources of the Bible, by the development of form criticism and its insights and speculations into the early stages of the formation of the Gospels, by questions about the «original» intent of passages before they were set in their present literary context, by questions of «what really happened», and by the attempt to unravel diverse strands of tradition in both Old and New Testaments.

Jacobsen packs a tremendous amount of theology and age - old questions in there, I particularly benefitted from the discussions about what really happened on the Cross, as it presents an alternative to the oft - memorized penal substituionary (Google doesn't think that is a word apparently...) atonement theories.

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

The new self of each moment partly includes the old experiences through memory, although Hartshorne does not exclude as inappropriate some talk of an old self with new experiences, provided it is clearly understood that the old self is contained within the new experiences and not the converse.4 Furthermore, he reasons that, if human experiences were the properties of an identical ego instead of the ego's being the property of the experiences, then to know an individual ego would mean to know all its future; and, therefore, we could not really know the individual in question until his death.5

They see it as a slap in the face for some reason (I'm not against them, though, just the idea that somehow a 2000 - year old Middle Eastern carpenter «died for me» (they never have a good answer as to what that really means)-RRB- and question why they spent so much money on my Catholic education.

But Gunkel's approach to these questions is really alien both to the old Testament and to the New.

On a Potluck Hangout we had last night, «I Think I'm An Atheist»... we've made this one public so that you can watch it... a couple of our participants said that they were about 16 years old when they really began asking questions and were met with resistance.

The question asks whether Christ is really present, or whether he is present as a sign or figure, as he was (in St Thomas» view) in the Old Testament sacrifices.

James, my oldest — I guess he really is his father's son, because he asked the same first question I did.

It has already been reported that Gunners officials have already questioned whether to offer Chamberlain another deal, with the 23 year old failing to really improve since signing five years ago.

United have not won the Premier League since Sir Alex Ferguson's final season in 2012/13 and many will question if Mourinho is really the right man for the job at Old Trafford after an unconvincing first two years in charge.

The fact that someone would question the top - 10 ranking of a now - gimpy 31 - year - old guard, who's been hobbled by two bad knees... who posted the lowest scoring average of his career since his rookie year... who posted his lowest free - throw shooting percentage of his entire career... who really struggled in the playoffs... isn't that crazy, really.

Questions have been asked about the 29 - year - old's struggles and whether he really fits into this side, and Mourinho made something of an admission about his signing in his press conference on Friday.

This is the kind of article that highlights exactly what is wrong with this club as a whole... so the question you're asking is what option would be less shitty... after the firestorm surrounding Wenger's contract last season, which somehow led to his highly questionable re-upping for 2 more years, things needed to dramatically change or the inevitable same old, same old was bound to occur... as of right now the bare minimum has occurred... we knew about Sead long before Wenger's renewal so that can't be considered a part of the «new world order»... so the only real changes are Lehman coming into the coaching staff, which could be positive but he's always been a Wenger lackey so the jury is still out, and the acquisition of Lacazette, who I really like as a player but I question the reasoning behind his signing

A good number if the old questions have been answered this season really.

While question marks remain over how good the 16 - year - old really is, there's no denying that Bertolacci has struggled to make any real impact since his arrival two years ago.

The 49 - year old was asked about it in his weekly question and answer column for the Daily Mail and he had some really good things to say about the World Cup winning German, especially his qualities as a leader.

I guess that's a stupid question really, what with Arsenal playing the same old??

The 28 - year - old will now be hoping he can hurt Arsenal quickly this weekend and instantly make Wenger question if it was really the right choice to let him go.

So i do appreciate some of these players are great, we should ask a question, how would they have coped playing the game with the old leather balls, and playing on surfaces which they would find impossible to play the modern passing game, very unfair to compare i know but you have to look at who has really had the greatest impact on the game and for the good of the game!!!

«I've been here since I was about 7 or 8 years old so there was never any questions about me signing really.

«No one really asks the right question, which is «how do we live in a culture where a 9 - year - old can be executed?»

Mom's question: My son is ll months old and is experiencing really hard dry bowel movements and extreme constipation.

I think that gives the midwives the luxury of having extra time to spend on normal concerns that women have in pregnancy about the correct diet, help with exercise, questions about travel, questions about integrating older siblings into the arrival of a new baby, many kinds of normal things that we really just have the luxury of getting into in a deeper way than physicians may, who are dealing with more medical complications.

I hate to answer a question with a question, but it really depends on how often you plan to be washing, and how old your baby is.

Question: We've been trying the side - lying position (my baby is just over 2 weeks old)- he tries really hard and then gets frustrated.

«I haven't really thought about that,» he said when the question was posed at a press conference at the Old Town Bar near Union Square called to celebrate the 10 - year anniversary of laws barring smoking in bars and restaurants.

And Senator Klein says there are still a lot of «ifs» in DeBlasio's plan, and he questioned whether it's really feasible to have pre-K for over 50,000 four year olds up and running by September.

Perhaps with a little more time (and a little more science) we'll eventually figure out that age old question — are you really smarter than an octopus?

In the Old School New Body Review, we'll try to answer some of the most common questions about the product — is it a scam and does it really work?

I have a 2 and a 4 year old and thank goodness they are healthy but i really question the multivitamins because they have flouride (which is a poison according to my toothpaste tube) and also because i recently read that a lot of synthetic vitamins contain petroleum, and other byproducts that actually can cause cancer.

I know i am really late in joining this blog - and not sure if anyone will be reading comments for this old post but to answer the question - I am a newbie so I do anything i can to make the sewing process ted bit easier.

Goodman and Walsh spoke to CNN separately about the online dating project and the age - old question, can men and women really just be friends?

So, you want to know the answer to the age - old question: Does size really matter?

Answers to Questions from People Who Know at Ask Experience I see more of a benefit for a female, but for me, or any other male, at 39 + (Will be 39 in July) there really isn't a point to start a family at say, 46 years old (39 plus three years of dating, plus maybe 2 years of being engaged, plus 2 years of being married without children.).

Let's face it, there are only so many ogre jokes one can really do, and when you have a docile ogre like Shrek, who has lost all of his ability to appear menacing, even trotting out an old ogre joke is out of the question.

If you've ever seen «The Room,» a 2003 feature that's been called one of the worst films of the 21st century, you probably had some burning questions about its leading man, such as: How old is that guy, really?

Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as identity, voice, creative output, and that age old question of what it really means to sell out.

And so in answer to the age - old question that haunts every remake — «Was this really necessary?»

Questioning the likelihood of this 50 - year - old's diagnosis, Omalu decides to take a more in - depth look at what was really driving Webster to addiction and self - harming.

Karyn Kusama's The Invitation is a variation on the «dinner party from hell» film, with the age - old question: is our protagonist paranoid, or are they really out to get -LSB-...]