Sentences with phrase «so mere humans»

Not exact matches

A discouraging thought for job seekers: Sometimes competition for a position is so fierce that an HR person — mere human, after all — can not possibly eyeball them all.

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

Or else why would they react so negatively to what a tiny «minority» of mere mortal humans has to say.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

However, a human being, Lucas noted, can recognize his own consistency» at least at times» and so must be more than a mere computer.

Hartshorne connects the ideas of relative and absolute in the act of knowing: «Unrestricted or literal relativity; so far from being the mere de facto character of our inferior human knowledge, is rather the precise ideal of knowledge in its most absolute meaning» (DR 10).

3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

And in doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential quality that pervades all of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product of its abstracting as though it were reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by human sensory projection.

We seek to subdue and master the world so that it can serve our needs and desires, thus treating «other living beings as mere objects subjected to arbitrary human domination.»

If religion gives people so much «confidence» and «conviction,» why do they go into such hysterics whenever some «mere human» expresses a doubt?

Not sin, for it is thought of as a universal human attribute; nor forgiveness, for it is conceived as a mere event in the world of external objects, on which man by his very theories and proofs exercises judgment, asserting that divine forgiveness can and must be thus and so.

Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the whole moral law of marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).

lack of seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance.

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

But it makes good logical sense to say that as elements of human knowledge, the so - called apriori truths are mere hypotheses about the universal conditions of existence.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

Deep - seated and inveterate, sinfulness was now regarded as so essentially a part of human nature that no mere forgiveness of transgressions could salve its evil or volitional amendment undo its harm.

Jeremy is Brian sugegsting that you to try not to follow in the footsetps of our Lord and Master, The Living Word of God who in the Garden of Gethsemane modeled broken humanity and humility when he made himself so vulnearble he asked three mere humans to pray for him (the same three who were about to deny him)

Don't blame the Lord because unlike us mere humans he is so touchy he won't be able to understand your humanity?

• How LeBron James exists among mere basketball humans, while doing things like blocking an Andre Iguodala transition layup out of nowhere and doing so at what felt like 57 feet above sea level

It would be human nature for Vermaelen or Gallas to become complacent with no real worry of being replaced, so Campbell's mere presence on the substitutes» bench could be beneficial.

Power operates through the normalizing gaze of the prison guard: it is not a mere external restraint on our conduct but has a productive role in shaping our inner world and identity to make us obedient and manageable.Under this picture, human freedom is threatened not so much by the crushing boot of 1984's Big Brother, but the passive intoxication of a Brave New World.

Knowing that human intelligence isn't so special after all could provoke a much different emotional response than finding mere microbes «like pond scum in space,» Shostak says.

Left on the craft to experience 23 years without human contact while his companions experience mere minutes on the surface of the planet, his reappearance is one of the film's most resonant moments — the more so for being so quiet and so delicately played by Gyasi.

The affirmation of the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, as expressed in most international human rights instruments (3), is often a mere rhetorical affirmation that conceals the fact that the satisfaction of civil and political rights prevails over the so - called second - generation rights.

The mere fact that so many humans live on the planet, and, under Capitalism, which is very efficient at exploiting everything, denotes that change will occur.

Besides the (sketchy at best) fact that we contribute a mere 15 ppm CO2 into the atmosphere, we know that the earth IS getting much warmer and an increasingly faster rate, so even if it is only 15ppm attributed to human activity it is still having adverse effects on our planet and can not be ignored.

It simply isn't conceivable that a mere 55 % of human emissions, (after deducting the so called airborne fraction) offsets the entire absorption changes caused globally and naturally by warmer ocean surfaces.

Although the mere fact that the impugned legislation takes into account the claimant's traits or circumstances will not necessarily be sufficient to defeat a s. 15 (1) claim, it will generally be more difficult to establish discrimination to the extent that the law takes into account the claimant's actual situation in a manner that respects his or her value as a human being or member of Canadian society, and less difficult to do so where the law fails to take into account the claimant's actual situation.

Somewhere in that life insurance policy must be something written so small and obscurely that it can never be found by a mere human that excludes my family from being paid no matter how I die.

That's not surprising since humans have had a million or so years to learn the intimacies of vocal communication, while written communication has been around a mere 5,000 or 6,000 years.