Do we represent a wisdom tradition for the modern age — with something important to
say about human suffering and human flourishing — or are we orthopedic surgeons of the psyche?
Which is totally understandable, by the way — the implications of climate science and what
they say about human beings in general and Americans in particular are pretty frightening.
If so, What does
this say about human nature.
In a story about robots fighting one another, Nier: Automata had more to
say about the human condition than anything else I played, watched, or read in 2017.
«Rainbow Time» has some complex things to
say about human sexuality, not just via Shonzi but also via Todd, who has some kinks of his own that he's ashamed of, and even Lindsay, who thinks of herself as sex - positive but is creeped out by the baseness of male lust.
And whether or not you sauntered back into the daylight thinking those films had had anything meaningful to
say about the human capacity for violence, you had to admit it was hard to shake their crude, violent images out of your head.
It's possible that it has something interesting to
say about human nature.
What does it ultimately
say about the human condition?
Philosophers have a lot to
say about the human experiences you're interested in — emotions, memories, mental life.
«We had been pestered by clinicians saying, «What does the mouse
say about human hair growth?»»
Agouti viable yellow mice might have something to
say about the human obesity epidemic.
Three psychiatrists describe what new scientific research has to
say about human love.
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible does and doesn't
say about human origins By Peter Enns.
Enns does not fail in his intention to describe what the Bible does and doesn't
say about human origins.
How, one might ask, can quantum mechanics have anything to
say about the human mind?
We criticize this combination a lot, both for what it says and for what it fails to
say about the human predicament.
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't
Say About Human Origins by Peter Enns (see my review)
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't
Say About Human Origins by Peter Enns — This book came along and just the right time for me.
What then can a Christian
say about human nature?
Once again a task is required from Christian teachers and preachers, both in what they have to
say about human life in general and in what they have to say about Jesus in particular.
Theology has become, since the Enlightenment, what humans say about God and even what humans
say about humans speaking of God.
Ah, so much is
said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.
One of the difficulties in much that has been written or
said about human sexuality is that it has been altogether too much based upon what Mr. Woollard calls a «secular kind of pragmatism.»
His comments do force readers to look closely and to ask if more is
said about human resistance to God's will in Genesis than is typically assumed.
Everything
said about human beings must cohere with this view of their participation in the world and, with all the world, in God.
Dr. Lu recognized CIMS» efforts since the MFCI was created: «You remind me of what Dr. (Martin Luther) King
said about human progress.
The same should be
said about human toothbrushes since some of them will not work well for your dog's teeth and especially gums.
Many cat food brands are manufactured in a factory with ingredients that are less than natural (in fact, the same could be
said about our human food!)
There is very little negative to be
said about Human Revolution, just the enemy AI flopping a bit at times, and I certainly doubt that we will find another release to this year that will top what Eidos Montreal has put together here.
This one may be a big, fat panderfest, or, if we're lucky, it may have something insightful to
say about humans» special relationships with felines and canines.
Now I frankly don't care about how or why people have affairs, and neither does the law since the introduction of the no - fault Divorce Act in 1985, but the sheer number of people involved in just this one hook - up website is extraordinary, and I question what the hack
says about the human capacity for monogamy.
Not exact matches
Alex Miller, the global head of content at VICE Media,
said in a statement that its readers «care deeply
about freedom of speech and
human rights» and that's why the company decided to launch the campaign for Rasool's release.
At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs
about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the
Human Rights Campaign
said.
«If you think
about it, the automotive
human - machine interface is kind of predestined for voice,»
says Gartner research director Werner Goertz.
In the post
about her year at Uber, Susan Fowler
said the company's
human resources department ignored her complaints because her boss was a high performer.
«The
human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,»
says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who
says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just
about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.
Even more important, don't give in to the natural
human desire to know exactly what's being
said about you, or to try to please everyone so they'll only have good things to
say.
«Technology may let us talk together, and share information together, and analyze a few things together, but I wouldn't worry
about going away from
human decisions,» he
said.
His worry is actually
about human testing in the field, but, he
says, he's already talking to WHO
about how those studies would be done.
«I think it's real tough for anybody to go out and start a business in a world he knows nothing
about,»
says Tom Golisano, the founder and CEO of Paychex Inc., an $ 870 - million payroll - processing and
human - resource - services company based in Rochester, N.Y. «My advice to Mike would be to find a job in a dynamic industry and then to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities within that industry.
Christian rights lawyer Zhang Peihong, who has represented Christian activists in China,
said he had not expected Tillerson to make a big deal
about human rights.
That soldiers of all the armies kept fighting in the horrible trenches, often with a vigor that post-moderns find incomprehensible and more than a little distressing,
says something
about the
human animal that needs discussion.
But while everyone talks
about ImageNet's success, «we hardly talk
about the failures,» she
said, underscoring the hard work researchers have building powerful computers that can «see» like
humans.
Acting Health and
Human Services (HHS) Secretary Eric Hargan hasn't
said anything
about open enrollment at all on his Twitter account during the signup period, which began on November 1.
A 2011 World Health Organization review, however, did not find that analogue insulins had any advantage over
human insulins, and at
about twice the cost, the WHO
said they're not worth the price.
And, while I've heard from those clients many incredible stories
about how they turned their dreams into businesses, never have I heard anyone
say that he or she couldn't wait to deal with accounting,
human resources, risk management and taxes.
Humans consume only 18 trillion of them, he
says, which means that we're converting those calories down by
about a factor of three.
And a year is not soon,»
says Emily Godbey, an associate professor at Iowa State University who studies and writes
about how
humans respond to disasters.
«You've got statistics, accounting, management science, operational research, but you're not talking
about humans,»
says Burke.
It's fascinating to learn
about the hugely varied ways in which people respond to a universal
human experience,»
says Morton.