It's not
the same point you are making, but I see it a little differently - to me the demon represents evil and chaos and pain and lies that attack our hearts and minds.
One of the points I am trying to make on this blog is
the same point you are making, that the day of the week doesn't matter, nor does the size of the group or the type of building.
The same point was made in Process and Reality, where Whitehead noted that there are no distinct boundaries in the continuum of nature, and thus no distinct boundaries between living organisms and inorganic entities; whatever differences there are is a matter of degree.
(
The same point is made in other terms by Hayek, in his defense of the common law.)
The same point is made when Pope's «The Rape of the Lock» is shown to embody a «total situation,» not choosing between convention and economic or biological necessity, but recognizing both the seriousness and the triviality of the rape.
Much
the same point is made by the authors of the new BJSM editorial and in Back in the Game, where Kutcher and Gerstner argue that suicide rates among former National Football League players, can be and have been affected by messaging in the media — a phenomenon called the «suicide contagion» — and note how, in its coverage of the suicide of players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, the media has consistently ignored all seven of the recommendations of the Centers of Disease Control on how to avoid spreading that contagion, including not presenting simplistic explanations for suicide, not engaging in repetitive, ongoing, or excessive reporting of suicide, and not sensationalizing suicide.
I agree with some of
the same points you are making and the debate part.
These same points were made in a 2008 study by Eric A. Hanushek, Dean T. Jamison, Eliot A. Jamison and Ludger Woessmann published in Education Next.
The same point was made in a lapidary phrase by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters decision: «the child is not the mere creature of the State.»
The same point was made by Robert Primack, «No Substitute for Critical Thinking: A Response to Wynne,» Educational Leadership, December 1985 / January 1986, p. 12.
That's exactly my point — the same point you're making — we can never know what fiction will last and what fiction will remain.
Particularly when I explained to Joe l (here on WUWT) two months before the papers publication exactly
the same points I am making here.
Catching up with Andrew Rawnsley's «award winning» column yesterday, Guido could not help think he had read
the same points being made, with all the same examples and the same anecdotes, somewhere before.
It brought to mind 2 quotes which pretty much make
the same points you are making:
Not exact matches
Wikileaks, in a brief statement Friday on Twitter,
made the
same point: «Discovery
is going to
be amazing fun,» said the anti-secrecy group, which has
been accused of acting as a cutout for the Kremlin.
For the past 50 years he
's made a
point of maintaining the
same morning routine.
The
same could
be said for Welter herself — her resumé
is impeccable, full of the relevant experience, to the
point where a coaching job at the sport's highest level
made perfect sense.
According to Jamie Perry, vice president of brand and product development for Jet Blue, the airline
made the short film a comedy because you can't preach to people but you can
be irreverent and humorous to get the
same point across.
The
point, Buffett repeats in all his appearances in China,
is that by quitting Stanford and trying to
make a go of it in music, he
was doing the
same thing his father did.
For instance, on his blog Baseline Scenario, University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak
makes many of the
same points as Quittner — the Zuckerberg - Chan donation isn't really a donation at all but a newly formed LLC that will have significant tax benefits for the couple, who will retain almost complete control over their money.
As with the police example Dave mentions, an arrest
is an arrest — but picking up jaywalkers isn't the
same as busting the ringleader of a gang (exaggerating the
point in order to
make it).
Law professor Eugene Volokh, who blogs about free speech issues at the Washington Post, has
made the
same point in the past to argue that Google's (GOOG) choice of search results
are a form of free speech.
It
makes it more likely that folks will follow through, and if it does get to the
point that the plan isn't acted on, everyone
's on the
same page.»
As Rolling Stone writer Tim Dickinson
pointed out in a tweet - storm on Tuesday, his 6.5 million followers
make him about the
same size as the CBS evening news (although obviously those numbers aren't directly comparable).
Halvorson
points out that the «Goal Looms Larger Effect» — the mechanism that
makes imminent goals feel all - consuming, like when you
're finishing a race or closing a sale,
is the
same effect that helps people hit deadlines.
When it comes to taking digital pictures, much of the recent focus has
been on smartphones — how they now take better pictures than many
point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it
's now vital to
be able to Instagram a shot of your dinner and
make a phone call with the
same device).
Fake follower counts
are based on
Points North scanning followers of influencers to sort out such things as accounts
making comments in languages that don't
make sense for the content or the influencer, or accounts
making the exact
same comments across multiple influencers and posts.
And that
's the
point, really: that increased demand for the Canadian dollar affects other industries precisely because it
makes the REAL price of Canadian goods higher relative to the
same goods produced in other countries, not just nominal price.
Forget the specifics, for a paragraph, because this
is a notable development: while these hearings usually devolve into partisan cliches with the
same talking
points — Democrats want regulations, and Republicans don't — yesterday Senators from both sides of the aisle expressed unease with Facebook's handling of private data; obviously Democrats tried to tie the issue to the last election, but that
made the Republicans» shared concern all - the - more striking.
You do not have to use the
same exact words in the messages, but the voice used across the different channels, and the
point you
are making should
be identical.
Not only
was the Competition Bureau not entitled to project what the operator of a VOW may or may not seek to charge in a commission sense, the Competition Bureau ignored that full - blown VOW's
were not just office sites in terms of the scale of their business, (others continue to
make this
same mistake) and that consequently before a VOW might even reach the
point of «economies of scale», the additional costs associated with running a full - blown VOW would need to
be satisfied.
You can not reject scientific reasoning (evolution, big bang, whatever you find annoying) and then attempt to use that
same method of reasoning (logical reasoning, that
is) to
make any
point.
But the
point isn't to
make everyone the
same.
@Vic, And that
's all very nice (and according to the rules that «God» supposedly
made compeltely possible as this universe does not allow one thing to
be two things or two things to occupy the
same space, but that
's not really teh
point here), but you didn't answer my question.
It
's to the
point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so
is being hateful when, in reality, they
are only fulfilling that very
same Bible observation
made by Jesus.
Of course, if Israel
were the only country in the world where we send either 1) direct aid and / or 2) provide a military presence and which had free universal health care and / or free or low cost secondary education, you might actually
be making a
point about there
being something unique in the US / Israeli relationship, as opposed to, the $ 100s of billions we
're sending around the world to hundreds of other countries which provide the
same benefits.
Well, it goes back to the
same question: Since both sides and their fans all generally pray to the
same God for victory,
is making an obvious
point of thanking God for favoring your team because of your better performance just rubbing it in, thus const.ituting poor sportsmanship?
yawn... of course we all have subjective biases... i
'm honest about mine... and really, what
is the
point of having the
samed tired debates here... you already have your opinion
made up, won't truly listen and will hear anything i say through that lens
Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our
being created male and female, but shouldn't they
be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the
point of saying, «We believe the tradition
made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the
same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even
make our argument for inclusion»?
The
same point can
be made in terms more familiar to the Whiteheadian tradition.
Churches
are made up of people — all of them broken... I imagine that you will encounter the
same people in your anti-institution that you would find at church... What
's the
point?
Jorge Nobo seems to
be making much the
same point in the following passage from Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extention and Solidarity: «the state of the universe from which C [a given actual occasion] springs — i.e., the state of the universe which gives birth to C —
is both outside and inside C.
So I
was not
making any speculations, I
was pointing out that if what you say
is true, then anyone and everyone would
be coming to the
same conclusion about the
same creator, instead you get 41,000 different flavors of one brand along with tens of thousand of other brands.
It seems to me that the statement many have
made that we all worship the
same God
is not really on
point for the issue.
(PK, 385 emphasis original) Fr Holloway
makes the
same point as follows: «Environment may favour or may destroy the life mechanism... but an intrinsic modification of pattern - of -
being from the invisible cell to the primates
is something quite beyond that.»
Fr Holloway
makes the
same point: «Scientific Positivism has no criterion of intellectual and moral values, because these
are not subject to experimental analysis and verification.»
But the
same point can
be made in terms of economic and political systems.
MyMainMan, one other
point I'd like to
make: If you
're going to support Sagan's claim that athiests must presume to have much more knowledge than the rest of us, then the exact
same must apply to Theists (those who believe in God).
Obviously it
is much more difficult for us to imagine the first appearance of reflective thought at some
point in the history of a phylum or race
made up of different individuals than at some
point in the series of states
making up the life of one and the
same embryo.