Scientists aim to describe a single «tree of life» that reflects the evolutionary
relationships of living things.
Living systems: Utilizes natural sciences to solve problems related to the characteristics and structure of living things (molecular and macro systems), living processes, and the interactions and
relationships of living things to each other and their environment.
Not exact matches
At the moment, the ability to watch
live sports seems to be one
of the few
things that keeps large numbers
of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this
relationship is rock solid.
It's an important
thing for people to understand because I think, especially today, a lot
of people — we don't want to be a boring person, like we really want to be interesting people and have interesting
lives but the problem is that, that conflicts with what makes a
relationship good in a lot
of cases.
Like many
things in
life, you want to do the hard work
of building
relationships before you need help.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out
of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability
of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5
things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop
of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful
relationships [30:15] The importance
of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the
relationships that changed Ray's
life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting
of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth
of the top 1 %
of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
After all, you joined up with this whole Kingdom
of God
thing because
of this
relationship you could have with the
life - giving Creator
of the universe.
The shift in our understanding
of sex from a sacramental and
life - changing encounter to the
thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all
of our
relationships shallower and made each
of us less capable
of the profound gift
of self on which marriage is founded.
I have evidence in my levels
of serenity, happiness and improved
relationships with other people that this is a positive
thing for me in my
life.
Awareness is not tethered to the physical but
relationship with the physical There is no such
thing as non existence physically or conceptually Agency
of time and space must be outside our subset
of existence and predate singularity Our known world is configured to be appear concentric Probability
of intelligent
life in only 14 billion years is one out
of ten to the power
of 127 assuming one universe.
Part
of the shocking revelation that Jesus brought us is that God doesn't just want us to go to a happy, peaceful place, but that he's inviting us to enter into a familial
relationship with Him and as His children we will
live with Him, do
things with Him and and work with Him (and consequentially each other, forming a body that is One).
How an individual responds to difficult circumstances depends on many
things within him — his philosophy
of life; his
relationships; coping abilities he has developed previously; other stresses and satisfactions; religious and emotional resources.
The nice
thing about online forums like this one is that they let us know that we are not alone and they give us the chance to work through some
of our new ideas without jeopardizing those «real
life»
relationships that are too fragile to handle brutal honesty.
When
things were rough in one
relationship, I was able to still engage in the rest
of life by simply putting it into the proper box in my mind and leaving it there until it was time to address it.
Though some
of these examples
of things that become do refer to what happens within the internal
life of one actual entity, still others refer to
relationships between objectified actual entities at transition.
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature
of things» which has existed since the beginning
of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order
of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history
of more profoundly humane patterns
of life» can be a part
of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind
of priority as its first clear manifestation.
What is happening here, for the first time in two thousand years, for the first time since the apostle Paul pondered the continuing «mystery»
of Living Judaism, for the first time since the Church condemned Marcion as a heretic in the second century, for the first time since so many
things in our tortuously entangled
relationship, is that believing Jews and Christians are encountering one another on a footing
of civil equality in a shared exploration
of the way through history
of the God
of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus.
The proof that the growing co-extension
of our soul and the world, through the consciousness
of our
relationship with all
things, is not simply a matter
of logic or idealisation, but is part
of an organic process, the natural outcome
of the impulse which caused the germination
of life and the growth
of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution
of the moral value
of our actions (that is to say, by the modification
of what is most
living within us).
Calling both
relationships the same
thing renders the differences between the two types
of relationships meaningless including an opposite sex couple's ability to create new
life.
i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance
of getting back together again regardless
of how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on
living my
life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my
life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to church with and put God first and share
things with my self and my daughter as a loving
relationship would be....
The love which is revealed in Christ is a love which seeks the fulfillment
of all
things in such a
relationship to one another that what flows from the
life of each enriches the
life of all, and each participant in the whole
life finds his own good realized through the giving
of self to the
life of the whole.
----- So I answer her and you, knower
of all
things, guru
of my
life experiences, the man with the crystal ball, ---- wait a minute; are you telling me as I describe my
relationship with God that I haven't had an actual experience, as I describe to Lynn with God?
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil
thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless
of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need
of any partners but we the creation is in need
of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws
of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the
life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one
of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law
of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws
of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical
relationship outside
of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence
of breaking the law
of the land but we do not see the punishment
of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures
of hereafter....
It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other
things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation
of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses
of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable
relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the
life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.
In order to
live in these thriving
relationships it is vital that we are willing to
live with discomfort; exercise intentional decision making about how to spend time, energy, money, and relational capacity; seek to understand «the other» and myself; communicate a lot (mostly asking questions) in a posture
of humility; willingness to experience unfamiliar
things, and give up some non-essentials that get in the way.
It means that Jesus elevates the
relationship between a man and a woman in the order
of creation, making it into a flesh and blood
living symbol
of His love for His Church, «a sign
of a sacred
thing.»
Anyone who believes that sex only belongs in
life - long monogamous
relationships (gay or straight) is conservative in the grand scheme
of things.
Looking at our universe, we observe the stable laws
of physics, the scientifically measurable and predictable qualities
of matter, the ordered
relationships of organisms to their environment and the process we call «evolution» by which
living things develop.
We are trying to do this sort
of thing in the neighborhood we recently moved into, and hopefully, as we get to know our neighbors, we can build
relationships with them that will allow us to help them (and be helped) through the messiness and stinkiness
of life.
For the
relationship to the
Living God which is religion is not contained primarily in these other
things, but in an ontological
relationship, i.e. something that derives from the very nature
of your being, to God, as the One lain hold
of in a personal, loving ful lment which lls out both our intellect, and our capacity for loving alike.
No settling down, no stability, no return to the normal
relationships of life can be allowed, or the whole
thing will crumble.
What if most
of the problems in our
relationships with other people — the way we «see» and are «seen» by them, the way we interpret their
lives, actions, and / or attitudes (and inversely the way others interpret our own), the way we treat and respond to others (as well as the ways they treat and respond to us)-- every single
thing that each and every one
of us do that damages our
relationships with one another * stems * from an inherent misunderstanding
of the nature and the goodness
of the God in whose image we ourselves were created.
We
live under the «dispensation
of grace,» when people are judged according to their personal
relationship with Jesus Christ, but between now and the «dispensation
of the millennial kingdom,»
things are going to get ugly.
Quite a few
of us have stable
relationships, raise healthy well - educated children, are free from addiction, vote, volunteer and donate to support causes that help make this society work,
live in harmony with people who are different from us — I could go on, but you may get the idea that most
of us do
things most people would call good and have neither the inclination nor the time to do abominable
things.
Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a
relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages
of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless
of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who
of us is worthy.It is by grace that we
live and yes bad
things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all
things do work for Good if we love him..
Life involves
relationships to
things, to institutions, to the needs
of people.
In describing and accounting for the
lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his
relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance
of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy
of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise
of what has been called the New Right out
of the ashes
of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election
of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was,
of all
things, a Democrat; the rise
of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching
of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war
of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate
relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
The
things that define my
life, my body, my
relationships, the historical events and changes will be the opportunities I have for being reminded at some unique and particular times
of an aspect
of existence that I may call «sacred.»
Or, the Christian
thing may be construed as an entire ethos, a total way
of life complete with the necessary institutional framework, traditional structures
of relationships among persons, values, norms, and so forth.
Ty, the difference is that you're talking about a personal
relationship with one other real
life person; in that context there is cooperation and understanding, but not condemnation
of the other person simply for the
things about them the other person doesn't like.
Jesus shows her that the very
thing she had been searching for in her extramarital
relationships was contained in Him, the author
of Life.
It also explains why so many mistakenly think God is impressed with our level
of certainty over our beliefs, when in fact the only
thing that means anything to God is how faithful his people are in trusting his character and in
living in
relationship with him, regardless
of whatever level
of certainty they have, or don't have.
Now, it's easy to think the start
of a new
relationship might be a time when you'd need solid friendships in which you can talk about how
things are going in your love
life.
Thus many
things are communicated to us concerning
life of the master and his intimate
relationship with his disciples.
When people are dealing with deep depression, the anxieties
of life, ruined
relationships, lost jobs, the death
of a child or spouse, or ongoing health problems, the last
thing they need is the idea that God hates them.
Then, as I began making blog friends, it felt weird that I didn't know any
of them in «real
life» and so we have digital
relationships and do
things like share pictures
of food we ate alone by ourselves.
And by that I don't mean my next
life - long
relationship (even strawberries can not trump the awesomeness
of my husband), I mean the dish that lets the berries sing through every bite, a joyous chorus
of praise and adoration for all
things wonderful in
life.
What if I told you there was one
thing that you can do, right now in this exact moment, that will help to improve your
relationships, increase your opportunities and quality
of life, strengthen your health, and completely transform your
life for the better?
As a now supposedly older and wiser Sarandon says, «The one
thing that's been really clear to me is that you have to think
of your own
life and your
relationship and everything as a
living organism.
I believe that the time investment I make in my children's
lives while they are young will pay off tremendously as they grow older, and that by doing all
of these
things, I am creating a solid foundation on which to build a lifelong
relationship.