Midday Fix: Snakes from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum - WGN - TV - October 23, 2015 Steve Sullivan highlights some of the slithery critters visitors will
see at the Nature Museum event Supper with the Snakes.
Her work, along with that of her friend Jenny Kendler and other artists, can currently be
seen at the Nature Museum as part of the «Rare Nature» exhibit (open through October 19).
Her work Through The Ice, Darkly can currently be
seen at the Nature Museum as part of Weather to Climate: Our Changing World (open through October 23).
Vandals hacked 15 cottonwood trees with a chain
saw at a nature area within Burnham Park on Chicago's South Side, Park District officials said Wednesday.
Not exact matches
But every one of us can try to find opportunities to wonder
at the majesty of
nature or art in our everyday lives, expanding our horizons and helping us
see past our petty individual challenges and constraints.
Look, I am not by
nature a bear, but when you start
seeing the broader press mention the Dow
at 25,000 — as we
saw Thursday — sit up and take notice.
Oh, and there are a handful of
nature videos — the sort of demo reels you might
see playing in loops
at Best Buy.
All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs)-- are
seeing their fortunes put
at risk from the very
nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself.
However, the cap - weighted
nature of the index has hidden some of the decimation we're
seeing at the bottom.
At present we do not see much likelihood of a QE3 program, at least not in the same nature as the previous quantitative easing program
At present we do not
see much likelihood of a QE3 program,
at least not in the same nature as the previous quantitative easing program
at least not in the same
nature as the previous quantitative easing programs.
The reason we
see the bewildering variety of species we do in the world is because
nature's been
at the evolution game for BILLIONS OF YEARS.
And while science may not have as yet explained all the unexplained things in our universe, it has to begin to be
seen as,
at the very least, having explained enough that we can reasonably dismiss most, if not all, beliefs of this
nature.
I would attend staff meetings where there would be massive outpourings of prayer, where lunch breaks would be accompanied by discussions of the
nature of the Trinity, and where,
at any given moment, I could walk into a coworker's office to
see them bowed over an open Bible, meditating on the Bread of Life.
Then we will
see that our actual existence is, from the viewpoint of the inherited ontology of
nature and grace, «mixed» from its origin and
at every step, «a pilgrimage in which the miracle of divine love... is the most ordinary of events.»
If it makes you feel better to think of it as mother
nature or the laws of physics, or whatever other way you prefer to look
at it, what you're
seeing is the evidence of God's work.
Some look
at nature and
see the art and recognize the artist.
When you form your children's imaginations, you are training them to
see more than just what is there — to look
at the world,
nature, people, and even daily life with the same eyes of the heart that God gives us to
see His redemptive work in eternity.
in context that GOD created... He can cause it to happen in HIS way... laws of
nature did not exist until there was something for it to influence... the writers of the Bible did not believe in flat earth or the sun revolving around the earth... seems to me you cant
see figures of speech, but only false stuff... so why don't you tell the weather man
at your local TV station to stop saying surinse and sunset eh?
Lem me
see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for
at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the
nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.
Yet every discussion, precise enough to enable us to
see the mechanisms
at work, vests the derivation of initial aim solely in the primordial
nature.
He is negating the first by denying the very possibility of «signs»; The Kingdom is not of such a
nature that a sign visible in terms of the totality of world events or the externals of history or the cosmos will mark its presence; God is not to be
seen at work in the clash of heavenly bodies or of earthly armies.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope (Romasn 8:20) I bet the universe groans very loudly «
Nature, with its melancholy charm, resembles a bride who,
at the very moment when she was fully attired for marriage,
saw the bridegroom die.
«Even
at the age of eight,» he recalls, «I
saw that development was damaging
nature.»
The process of repeated ascent and descent is required in order to arrive
at a truly organic conception of
nature, in which the principle of universal connectedness is
seen to arise from within each of the particular orders of experience, rather than be imposed from above by philosophical fiat.
Jeremy — I agree with what you're saying about the flawed
nature of atonement theology, but could you explain how you
see the mechanism
at work with how Jesus» death cleansed our sins or defeated death and Satan if not for a price being paid?
But, you look
at the world,
nature, the human body and you
see ACCIDENT?
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope (Romasn 8:20) I bet very loudly «
Nature, with its melancholy charm, resembles a bride who,
at the very moment when she was fully attired for marriage,
saw the bridegroom die.
My main point is, when you test to
see if prayer works, there are ways to randomize it so bias is out of the equation (Usually double - blind tests work nicely) and then before you even begin you outline that a prayer that works means the person is healed instantly, or to make it slightly more «fair» and conform to laws of
nature more, a person who has prayers heals
at an abnormally high rate.
One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to
see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with
nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found
at all.
Nature seen at a distance appears to be malleable and in motion; but seek to lay hands on it, to deflect by force even the least of Life's directions, and you will encounter nothing but absolute rigidity, an unshakably stubborn refusal to depart from the pre-ordained path.
On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent
nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as
at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (
see RB 278 - 284).
For my part, when I look
at the way events unfold in the world, I do not
see any evidence there of the kind of divine activity called for by the Whiteheadian notion of God's consequent
nature weaving itself across his primordial
nature and then returning the «superjective» vision back to the world in an operative, effective manner through the shaping of subjective aims.
Only a blind man can not
see we are
at end times, third world countries with nuclear arms, a finacial system that is about to collapse, global disasters becoming more prominate, Godlessness that would try to redefine
nature, men marrying men, women marrying women, mothers killing their babies rather than loving their babies and those who would mock the only one who could save them, JESUS, all that will hear prepare to stand before him let him be your savior rather than your judge, just a little while not much time is left before this world learns his wrath.
All the ugliness
seen in the OT does not fit with the Jesus I
see of the Gospels, so that I hold
at arms length until I have been in relationship with others long enough for my inner self to show me how it does fit with the all loving
nature of Jesus Christ.
But we shall not really «
see» the Kingdom of God in these everyday miracles of
nature and human life unless we look and look again, and not only look, but mark the spot
at which the vision came to us, that we may know where it will repay us to make further explorations.164
«But,
at the same time, we have also
seen evidence of some of the worst aspects of human
nature, in that there are people - men, women and children - in this country who are going hungry, and yes, there are some people who attempt to abuse any system that is put in place, be that from the state or voluntary bodies.
Then you truly do not understand the true
nature of God... He
saw that none of us would be good enough to attain heaven (except little children who die
at an early age) so He sent the only One who had never sinned, who even though he sweated blood and asked if there was any other way, but ultimately said,» not my will but Yours,» paid our way into Heaven.
The principles of human action, like the processes of
nature, fall within a universal order established by the Creator, to be recognized
at any level by those who have eyes to
see and ears to hear.
The opposite of estrangement and alienation is
at - onement, which is a oneness with self, with one's neighbors, with
nature and with God (
see also Chapter 6).
If this theory «IS» Jesus for you, but a Jew
sees it as a not - yet - come Messiah or a Wiccan
sees it as Gaia /
nature or an atheist
sees it as something else, aren't you
at the very same place you started (without the theory)?
By
nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public
at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that
sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.
It should be easier to believe that
at this point Whitehead was not thinking of events in
nature as having subjectivity or experience, when we
see how many thinkers today affirm the intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all things without taking this step.
That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the
Nature of the Human»), where it
at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet
seen.
I will only recall that, by virtue of its convergent
nature, hominization is scarcely conceivable (
seen from the point
at which we find ourselves) except as terminating, whatever road it follows, in a point of collective reflection where Mankind, having achieved within and around itself, technically and intellectually, the greatest possible coherence, will find itself raised to a higher critical point — one of instability, tension, inter-penetration and metamorphosis — coinciding, it would seem, with what for us are the phenomenal limits of the world.
Since the
nature and function of literature as I
saw it was to acquaint us with the «felt» experience of life, to enlarge our sympathies and, quicken our sensibilities, and since the primary commandment of Christianity was to be disciples of Jesus Christ who had loved God and human beings totally, then the appropriate juncture between Christian faith and literature came
at the point of living out our faithfulness.
Man becomes a metaphysician because he is seeking to realize his own
nature as a person; he is seeking to overcome the depersonalizing that
nature forces on him by interpreting the mystery
at the center of all existence; (
See Jan T. Ramsey, ed., Prospect for Metaphysics (New York: Philosophical Library, 1961; London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1961), pp. 191, 204.)
We have
seen that Paul's understanding of the realities of the human situation apart from Christ could be expressed only in mythological terms, and the suggestion has been made that, in the
nature of the case, this must be true, not for him only, but also for us, if our understanding is
at all adequate or profound.
When one
sees the wonders of our earth, the beauty of its
nature and the complexety of humanity how else should you feel,... but
at awe...
They tell us that they have arrived
at an unshakable conviction, not based on inference but on immediate experience, that God is a spirit with whom the human spirit can hold intercourse; that in him meet all that they can imagine of goodness, truth, and beauty that they can
see his footprints everywhere in
nature, and feel his presence within them as the very life of their life, so that in proportion as they come to themselves they come to him.
They do not know that
at this very moment scientific thinkers have abandoned that older mechanical picture of
nature and have come to
see, even to insist, that science does not exhaustively describe the whole range of experience nor everything in the world of
nature.