Sentences with phrase «thing about being human»

Probably the most unsettling thing about being human is living with things over which you seem to have no power, like sickness, natural disasters and even other people's attitudes.

The thing about being human is that no matter how noble and honorable your philosophy, you will always find that some of the people who share that outlook are total dumbshits who will makeyou rethink whether you want to be associated with them.

The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.

Not exact matches

The only thing the U.S. has gotten to Mars's surface is a robot, and no humans have been to the moon — which is about 1 / 170th the distance away — since 1972.

This is exactly the kind of thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are going to displace human workers.

One of the most remarkable facts about the human body — indeed, about the great mass of living things — is that nearly every cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.

The most remarkable thing about neural nets is that no human being has programmed a computer to perform any of the stunts described above.

«The human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.

Even more important, don't give in to the natural human desire to know exactly what's being said about you, or to try to please everyone so they'll only have good things to say.

The awesome thing about this platform is that it doesn't just detect and alert problems, it also diagnoses what needs to be done to fix them, and impressively, actively implements the necessary solutions without human intervention.

«What's scary about this,» says Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair in Global Human Security at the University of Guelph, «is that these underlying structural things are going to be what make these food systems more fragile.»

I want to embody all the best things about human beings.

One of the most intriguing things about human behavior is that most of us think that we can hide our thoughts from others — but nothing could be further from the truth.

«I was reading about things that were of concern to me, the environment, hunger, animals, human rights.

In my experience in this industry the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.

The unique thing about AR versus [virtual reality, or VR] is that AR enhances the things that we do as human beings out in the real physical world.

We WANT to believe we're logical human beings making decisions about others based off of their past actions and other things «more important» than looks.

«Two things have always been true about human beings.

The great thing about Binary Option Robots, is that they can make profit in situations in which human beings are not quick enough to take advantage.

The first thing to know about Bitcoin is that it has no direct correlation to «value for work» — at least, not human work.

«One thing that excites me about building a company is the human experience of making something out of nothing together,» our co-founder and CEO Walter recently wrote in a company email.

From Chapter 15, «The Human Factor» (Page 157): ``... we'd try to make one thing clear: We were not offering any promises or even predictions about the returns our clients might achieve.

And they're justified in doing so with opinions about things that don't change much, like human nature.

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

One more thing CA... I contribute every day to your country... Whenever I shop at Subway or WalMart or Target... some of that money goes directly back to your country... so suck it up and learn to stay on topic... this isn't about who lives where, this about some religitard dictating basic human rights!!!

We are but mammals on a planet and there is not a thing we can do about it as the human was here on earth long before our Religion or the story of Jesus or Muhamid.

Jefferson said some critical things about religion and human nature - that were spot on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group of people to the point that he wanted them gone.

One thing I do know or have thought about is Humans can live for a short period of time.

I don't accept anybody else's subjective experiences because I have some idea about how easily the human brain can fool itself into experiencing things that aren't real.

I'm not dogmatic about Judas» final fate, that one was up to God — but consider the possibility that God doesn't judge things in the same manner that we humans do.

As a human being, and particularly as a Christian, I assume you agree with me that human beings are fallible, and that we can be wrong even about things which we deeply and passionately believe to be true.

Marjane's personal struggles — be they with boys, authority, prejudice or misogyny — are so deeply human, so spectacularly told that you can't help but be caught up in her narrative, and in getting to know her, you discover things about yourself you never dreamed.

And the thing about humans, is that no matter how well intentioned they may be, they still deal with flaws.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

The interesting thing about moral relativism is that it in no way actually predicts real human behavior.

You know, when I think about «empire» — Roman or Egyptian or Chinese or Russian or American — and consider both accomplishments and damage inflicted (human and otherwise), and then think about what Christianity might have to say on the subject, the first thing that comes to mind is «to whom much has been given, from him much will be required.»

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

School taught me how many wives Henry VIII had, helped me glean information about Australia's mining industry and even taught me the French word for «station», but nobody told me anything about the one thing you never believe will happen when you're young but happens to every human on the planet.

The human animal has simply evolved to be able to figure things out about the external world and there has been a selective advantage for our species to show love and generally be good.

We find that what we can not do through human efforts, can be done by Christ, if we're humble enough to accept it (Remember, the — I believe allegorical — story of the «The Fall» in Genesis was about mankind wanting to do things on its own and be «like God»).

We can be very defensive about the stupidest of things while ignoring the real issues of the world (I.e. Human suffering).

But sometimes we earthlings can not get much further in our thinking about such things as love, fidelity, commitment and caring than to summon forth the image of some mama somewhere who will always be for us the concrete human experience of such divine ideas.

(continued from 6/1/09) As little inclined as is Charles Taylor to connect the pre-ontological with the metaphysical, religious «experience» with cognitive assertions, he can not finally avoid making certain claims about the way things are, or at least the way human things are: We all see....

JON: All of these things that we're talking about are human institutions, and there's a really great differencebetween Christendom and the Church.

The idea that we are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but instead spiritual beings on a human journey, and we can sense and know all kinds of things about God through Jesus.

The thing about human nature is, that it doesn't change.

you are a poor excuse for a human being, stealing a name on an anonymous blog is about the most insane thing an ass hole could sink to.

My view is that when God called Abraham he knew he was going to work through flawed human beings to bring about redemption... and that the fault lines run forward then all the way to the cross, the most wicked thing humans ever did and the most loving thing God ever did.

It is about far greater things than mere human history.