Sentences with phrase «sense of the world as»

I try to make sense of the world as I see it, and as it is presented to me, and try to account for as many of the variables as I can.

What the Jew as Jew apparently has, and what the Christian has lost if he ever had it, is a sense of the world as creation and only creation, and thereby untouched by the announcement or gospel of total vision or total liberation.

The sense of the world as a unified whole is not constituted by a separate physical feeling in addition to the causal and transmuted feelings whose data are either single actual entities or a nexus of individuals.

My incapacity to make sense of the world as the creation of a personally caring Creator because of the magnitude of sin and suffering is, to extend the metaphor a long - festering sore that simply will not heal.

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But The Irish Times editorialized in favor of attending, saying, «no matter how gratifying to our sense of moral superiority, a boycott will be seen as a lost opportunity for face time with the world's most important leader.»

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

Those circumstances include a sense that fund managers have to «adapt or die» when it comes to the digital world as well as the growing complexity of business in general and the impact of artificial intelligence in particular.

But as a psychologist, I am deeply worried about the rapidly escalating levels of anger in our world — what's particularly disturbing is our increasing sense of entitlement to express it in aggressive or hurtful ways.

When you attend a meeting in VR, you are able to share the same sense of place with multiple others, interact naturally with 3D objects and speak one - on - one with others as you would in the real world.»

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

As the world tries to make sense of the U.K.'s historic vote, three sectors could be especially hard hit.

As word spread Wednesday morning of Travis Kalanick's sudden departure from the helm at troubled ride - hailing startup Uber, Silicon Valley pundits, investors and analysts all tried in different ways to make sense of one of the most startling developments to come out of the tech world in recent years.

As one of the world's leading experts on the connection between happiness and technology, Amy Blankson unveils five strategies that successful individuals use to find a sense of balance between technology, productivity, and wellbeing in the Digital Age.

These he accomplished despite his growing sense that larger forces — the riptide of tribal feeling in a world that should have already shed its atavism; the resilience of small men who rule large countries in ways contrary to their own best interests; the persistence of fear as a governing human emotion — frequently conspire against the best of America's intentions.

As the world watched Facebook hauled before the court of public opinion over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the sense of...

When asked if Syrah was a takeover target at its current share price, Mr Slifirski said: «Anytime you see a company with a world class resource in terms of scale, quality and position on the cost curve, which is exposed to a disruptive technology and has an open share register, it makes absolute sense as a takeover target.»

As we work with banks around the world to connect with each other for cross-border transactions, part of that work is helping them craft rule sets that make sense in...

They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

No such proof can ever be absolute (e.g., there is no 100 % proof that we exist, the world is flat, or the solar system is helio - centric... but there is such tremendous weight of evidence as perceived by our 5 senses and logic these are accepted as fact and truth).

In his later interview on the occasion of the Jefferson Lecture, he speaks of modern man as deranged, the literal sense of that term most appropriate to the Cartesian dislocation of intellect that has effected our displacement from the proper range of our being in the world.

Studying the humanities offers students «mental empowerment» so that they can go forward in life armed with «a sense of social responsibility» and «intellectual and practical skills that span all areas of study, such as communication, analytical and problem - solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills in real - world settings.»

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.

I could care less if someone worshiped a shoe in a jar as long as they have the sense to keep their beliefs out of the law and when viewing how the law will apply to the US Citizens that they do not only look at it from their perspective as there are many out there that have dissimilar beliefs and do not always view the world from the same perspective.

The enduring objects which populate our common sense world — trees, dogs, children, and books — are interpreted as societies or nexuses of occasions.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

It is in one sense natural that church leaders such as Kirill would wish to promote a Russian World that transcends the political boundaries of present - day Russia.

Power is probably the worst kind of pride, it engenders a sense of entitlement and views people and the world's animals, plants, and resources as expendable.

And just as out of the small house of Nazareth came a child who grew into a man who was the salvation of the world, so out of this domesticity, grounded in the pre-eminence of the values of the spirit, came the fidelity to a sense of covenant with God in justice and freedom.

But here's what doesn't make as much sense: Hudson Hongo at i09 has teased out the implications of a shared world between the Avengers and Arrested Development into an insane loop of shared worlds that ultimately ties the world of Adam West's 1960s Batman TV series, a DC property, into the Marvel universe.

There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»

Thomas Paine's assertion in Common Sense that «we have it in our power to begin the world over again» represents secularized apocalyptic thought in the form of a revolutionary overthrow of monarchy, which was demonized as anti-Christ.

He saw himself as operating in the same way that any scientist would operate insofar as he asked the conditions that made sense of the phenomena he observed in the world.

But there is a background, and the background more often than not is the world in the best sense of the word, the world as made, approved, loved, sustained and finally redeemable by God.

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

Lord Jesus, you who are as gentle as the human hear as fiery as the forces of nature, as intimate as life itself you in whom I can melt away and with whom I must have mastery and freedom: I love you as a world, as the world which has captivated my heart; — and it is you, now realize, that my brother - men, even those who do not believe, sense and seek throughout the magic immensities of the cosmos.

As we have observed, the player holds in tension a variety of polarities — a new world and the older one, a sense of both freedom and community, a spontaneity that has order.

Descriptions such as this one convey a dream - like quality, an Eden quality, entirely appropriate to such an innocent world; the reader gains a sense of what such a world must feel like, not what it means.

Holding to evolution as the origin of the world and all that is therein makes good philosophical sense if and only if you reject the idea of a God... or even of gods.

Says McKnight, «We evangelicals (as a whole) are not really «evangelical» in the sense of the apostolic gospel, but instead we are soterians... We (mistakenly) equate the word gospel with the world salvation.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

To Jesus the world is not evil, but men are evil; and not in the sense that the human race as such is evil because of its lower nature.

The ancients, too, vaguely sensed these difficulties, and always imagined the spirit or soul as having some body or form, even though, of necessity, it had to be of a ghostly or ethereal «substance», and pictured a spirit or soul world in which the soul found community.

Although there is much cruelty in the treatment of animals in the Indian subcontinent, as elsewhere in the world, all the Indian religions teach a sense of oneness with nature and a reverence for life.

A philosopher notes three areas in which linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

The first danger is that, with its strong appeal to the sense of the dramatic and the romantic, the radical response may attract individuals who see the world in black and white, who may then see themselves as «holier than thou» because they make do without new furniture or red meat or homogenized peanut butter.

Just as the primary meaning of human action does not refer to a public, historical act, the primary meaning of God's action does not refer to any act in history.23 However, since the relation of the world to God is analogous to that of the body to the self, then in the secondary sense of God's action, every event is to an extent an act of God.

In his book The Neoconservatives (1979), Peter Steinfels described those on our side of the barricades as «counterintellectuals,» people who move in the intellectual world but who do not share that world's dominant sense of alienation and estrangement from the ideas, values, and institutions of the middle - American majority.

Indeed, he might well claim the realization of Francis Cornish as his personal testimony: «Somehow I've drifted into a world where religion, but not orthodoxy, is the fountain of everything that makes sense» (p. 378).