Human beings build themselves up by
tearing other human beings down.
Not exact matches
Every advance in
human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has
been torn by one side from the teeth of the
other.
«This
is the witness that the church has to give to the world, that all the
other mandates
are not there to divide people and
tear them apart but to deal with them as whole people before God the Creator, Reconciler and Redeemer — that reality in all its manifold aspects
is ultimately one in God who became
human, Jesus Christ.»
In
human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such
other groups who depend on them to eke out a living... They would also
be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).
Some would say that it
's the hormones,
others would say it
is just natural
human emotion, but whatever the reason, those
tears of joy
are also
tears of love and they show just how much your child means to you.
Monkeys typically find
other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment
was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When
humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which
is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group
was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.
Authentic public love necessarily demands conflict,
tears, and hurt, because our transition to freedom and to more
human ways of
being requires that we call ourselves out in order to call
others in.
I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it
's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than
tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every
other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our
human potential as oxygen
is for continued function of the brain.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — While we have watched as tearful
humans in Oklahoma
are connected with the pets
torn from their homes by the recent FE5 tornado there
were other dogs at risk of not finding homes at all.
Although US President Trump has
torn up the nation's promise to contain global warming, and invoked coal as a key part of his energy strategy,
other studies have pointed out that coal
is a bad bargain: the US would gain far more in
human health, lives saved and return on investment if it put the money into renewables such as solar power.
Among
other things,
human tears potentially could
be tested for viral RNA or antibodies, which would offer a less painful way to diagnose Zika infection than drawing blood.