Not exact matches
«The advancements we are making are great, but we still have a long
way to go» before creating robots like those featured
in Hollywood movies that can
speak, think, walk, and move like
humans.
Socially
speaking, it is much more efficient and sophisticated
in the long run to understand the intricacies of
human behavior than to demand one's
way.
So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse
in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing
in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «
human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to
in some
way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart
in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit)
speak for themselves.
Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can
speak into that culture
in a unique, life - giving
way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow
human beings or our planet.
But God has been
speaking in secular
ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world
in which they live; he is at work
in the areas of
human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.
If God desires to
speak to
human beings, he must do so
in such a
way that he can be understood.
Whether Buber
speaks of the establishment of community or religious redemption, his goal is «the goal of the ages,» and the
way to that goal is through the fulfillment and redemption of individual
human beings
in direct and upright relation with one another.
Yes, liberalism today refuses to license the conviction that
human beings have a natural end, and to
speak in this
way puts one
in violation of the canons of public reason.
The second principle for a sexual ethic is that we have to
speak of sex, as of every aspect of
human life,
in a double
way, from the standpoint of essential created goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.
One possibility is that we are simply using this current language to
speak of the importance of the church's developing its doctrine of nature more fully and
in ways appropriate to our new understanding of the relation between
human beings and the natural world.
To
speak of sexual undertakings
in the
way implied by the traditional marriage rites of the churches is to deny people access to a basic
human good from the start and for reasons that are difficult if not impossible for modern people to grasp.
Strictly
speaking, the Bible has authority only when interpreted
in the church by
human agents whose authority to do so is
in some
way recognized.
But the word can be
spoken and heard
in the authentic experience of reconciliation, and it stands
in the language of the Gospel as the Word of God clothing itself
in human speech and opening the
way for the language of redemption to be
spoken between God and man.
But on the other hand, when
in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that
in a
way it may be all right, humanly
speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware
in what an infinitely deeper sense a
human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness
in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.
For all the lectures on
human rights and democracy coming out of Manila, the brutal fact of Philippine life is that millions of its people are forced to leave their families to do dirty work elsewhere because they have no
way to feed their families — this
in a strategically located land with an educated, English -
speaking workforce and bursting with natural resources.
The transcendent dignity of the
human person
in communion with the Creator is still capable of
speaking to our depths — the more so to the extent that the fantastical mythology of «H +» is exposed as fraudulent and cleared out of the
way, allowing us to notice that we have depths to
speak to.
Why then should we insist on
speaking of the
human mission of «completing, through our work the work finished on the sixth day, as if God had created nature
in such a
way as to leave to humanity the margin, the risk, and the honor of this artifice?
This can also be expressed another
way: the God who
speaks to humanity is «God with humanity,» Immanuel, and then God
in a
human being.
by the
way,
in either the book of Jasher or Jubilees, it says that animals
spoke the same dialect and could communicate with
humans.
In a more basic
way I side with the entire current of thought that makes
spoken language the basis of
human specificity, and here again I relate language and word.
Sergo, if you come on my porch and start
speaking in this
way, here's my response: «You need to see that ALL OF THIS BOLOGNA scriptures are manufactured by
humans because we are completely insecure about what happens to us when we die.
That is not the
way in which God
speaks and acts
in human history.
Yet the only
way to rescue aversio a deo from mythology is to show that it corresponds to a real experience
in human life — that
in fact it is equivalent to the» Verfallenheit» of which the existentialists
speak.
When applied to God
in human discourse, they are simply anthropomorphic representations of him, necessary
in order that man have a
way of thinking and
speaking about the deity.
When I
speak of faith, I
speak of faith
in a better
way of being
human and relating, etc..
Chalcedon, reinforced by Constantinople III, recognises
in Christ incarnate a true
human mind and will —
human forms of consciousness, if we must
speak that
way — distinct from the Divine Mind and Will.
Sometimes it's been writing letters to government about
human trafficking,
speaking up
in a dozen small
ways.
I think that neither Meland nor Loomer would have
spoken this
way, and that the difference lies
in whatever it was that made «Wieman first an idealist, who could believe that
human possibility is explained by an absolute potentiality.12
The natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles known not from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason, principles regarded as a basis for all
human conduct: to
speak in this
way of «the humanisation of sexuality» is simply the understanding of the natural law
in particular
human circumstances: there is no movement away from natural law - say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are stillwithin its ambit.
There are great differences among these three
spokes - persons for social possibility and pathology, but they all focus on the fact that societies have
ways in which to articulate and distort certain kinds of truth that make
human life possible Or problematic.
Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to
speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the
way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of
human personhood and peoplehood
in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity
in the larger society.
My experience was that
in ways little short of amazing, a theme or text would emerge from the lectionary readings and
speak to the
human condition at the moment.
Fine as far as it goes, but why not go all the
way and
speak in a forthright, substantive
way about «the
human being»?
This vision of Catholicism as the spiritual core of
human civilization remains incontrovertible, theologically
speaking, because the grace of Christ heals and elevates
human nature
in a unique and perfect
way.
Is this any more than a rather romantic
way of pointing to the traditional difficulty of
speaking about the holy God
in human terms?
To maintain that the essential qualities of love are merely anthropomorphic
ways of
speaking about God questions whether God's love is truly love
in any
human understanding of the word.
In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestation
In a general sense, one can
speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the
way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient
way of organizing
human life (iii) the
ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestation
in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.
We have quoted the Scots theologian Chalmers who
spoke of «the expulsive power of a new affection» as a means of purifying and ennobling
human existence; and the historian of French spirituality, Henri Bremond, has written about the
way in which prayer, at its best, is «a purification of the self.»
Sad for Christians who think it is their place to
speak down to people and
speak to them
in a
way that is completely unlike Jesus would; but also sad that the Bible gets twisted so much
in order to justify our selfishness as a
human race.
It matters to God; hence it is meaningful to
speak of the
way in which, once we have come to the end of our life
in this world, something abides — and that something is of enormous importance and gives dignity to our humanity, both for you and me as particular persons and also for
human society
in its total reality — a society of which each of us is a member, by virtue of our belonging together
in what an Old Testament text beautifully calls «a bundle of life».
This does not mean, however, that they are permitted to isolate themselves from the ongoing
human quest for mystery or from the many and various symbolic traditions that
speak of mystery
in other
ways.
«There is real and genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced of a truth, or of what he holds to be a truth, and when he at the same time recognizes the right of those who deny this truth to exist, and to contradict him, and to
speak their own mind, not because they are free from truth but because they seek truth
in their own
way, and because he respects
in them
human nature and
human dignity and those very resources and living springs of the intellect and of conscience which make them potentially capable of attaining the truth he loves, if someday they happen to see it.
The divine blessing of procreation («Be fruitful and multiply») is
spoken to the
human male and female
in Genesis 1:28, and Adam's rapturous little poem naming woman and man
in Genesis 2:23 (which I take to be the
way Genesis 2 affirms that creation is «very good») clearly aims at sexual union, as the man is to leave father and mother and cleave to his woman, becoming one flesh with her (Gen. 2:24).
God
spoke to
human beings
in a
way that they could understand and the sacred authors used terms common at the time.
The only
way to reach a
human is to confuse the hell out of the telephone robots, by
speaking very quickly and saying words
in a random order.
Lt. Rawlings who
spoke in an address to mark the 37th anniversary of the June 4 1979 uprising on Saturday, said, «the corruption of the environment is the quickest
way to degrade our
human self - worth, and a government or local authority that would butcher trees or watch the degrading of its environment can not expect people to behave responsibly
in other facets of their life.»
On the other hand, being part of the Council of Europe is also a
way for Russia to occasionnaly point at other (western) european countries failures about
Human Rights and embarass them, or to keep an eye on how Russian (or Russian
speaking) minorities are dealt with
in (eastern) Europe.
Ken's nasal drone is part of his brand, and not always
in a good
way, but he is one of the very few politicians who
speaks like a
human being, whether he's
in campaign mode or not.
In a double - barreled discovery, Brady and co-investigator Louis Cohen found that gut bacteria and human cells, though different in many ways, speak what is basically the same chemical language, based on molecules called ligand
In a double - barreled discovery, Brady and co-investigator Louis Cohen found that gut bacteria and
human cells, though different
in many ways, speak what is basically the same chemical language, based on molecules called ligand
in many
ways,
speak what is basically the same chemical language, based on molecules called ligands.
Put simply: Every single time you feel like food, your ghrelin (produced the same
way in both rats and
humans) is
speaking to you; it's causing you to feel hungry.