Sentences with phrase «thing about the existence»

We can see the sense of this intuitively — for the most surprising thing about existence is that there is anything.

«The funny thing about this existence is that once firmly settled we occupy it with less guard than we know,» the B - Mors point out.

Yet none of that means a thing about the existence of climate change, its severity or its consequences.

Not exact matches

Invention is about bringing new things into existence and hoping that the dogs will eat the dog food.

I'd say rather than try to invent wish fulfillment with myth and fairy tales about the way we'd like things to be, why not just find our contentment in our present existence, make ours the best lives we can live and just enjoy the ride we have, rather than invent one to dream about.

Thomas thinks that it is the discipline of metaphysics that asks questions about the ultimate cause of existence of things, and, as he says, «not only does faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.

At 62, I have already lived most of my life and I don't quite care about heaven or Hell but I do care about the people with whom I share the earth, my fellow pilgrims, so yes, I would still stick with the Jesus thing as it helps me to remember to be humble, charitable and mindful in my daily walk so that I can contribute positively to the existence of others.

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

Steven, you're right, a god's existence would be empirically untestable, unless it manifested itself in our universe in some way and demonstrated that it can bend the natural laws etc.... But, what gets me, is that you're saying that it is a waste of time to think about things that are empirically untestable.

Without pretending to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined to be a vast collection of existences — things and substances of various compositions and kinds — each of which is what it is, and moves, changes, grows, or decays as it does by reason of its relation to other things: things existing in various ways by, and in some cases, at the expense of, or on, other things.

There's a few nice things said about early Christians helping their neighbors and giving the poor hope that the afterlife will bring them a better existence, which is positive in a sort of back - handed way... I suppose.

LBC radio presenter Darren Adam had a discussion with a caller on Monday about the existence of God in which he explained reasons for his unbelief, but said the offer of a ticket to paradise was «possibly the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me on this programme».

The only real impediment in disproving the existence of God is that the word is so poorly defined that we can't really be sure if we're talking about the same thing.

Now we are instructed and nourished by the striking affirmation about «the God in whom he [Abraham] believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.»

Atheism is actively denying the existence of God, which is not inborn, first you hear about this God and religion thing, and then you decide if you believe it or not, definitely NOT inborn.

The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this book about the pleasure of knowing the truth of things, in particular the delight of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects of existence, of realising that all sorts of «scraps of evidence» point to the fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account of our existence.

In this situation, since God's existence as cause of things is known, the objection that nothing further can be said or thought about God univocally might appear as a quibble.

Science and God can coexist... for those who choose to believe I can't begin to argue with you about the existence of God because you have closed your mind to Him... I won't argue why God allows bad things to happen... because you don't even want to see the good things...

God has given us much evidence of His existence: how about the intricacies of how the human body works - can you really believe that happened without a master plan; what about the beauty of nature - can we really think that that just happened; what about the testimony of millions throughout the ages including Scientists attempting to disprove God, that point to things beyond their comprehension or doing.

To take an incredibly complex thing and say it's too complex to have come about naturally... and that claim by supposing the existence of an even more complex thing (a god) is absurd.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

Lots of things to trip on in the bible, you'll either be a man and become self sufficient to make your way over the stumbling blocks, or you'll laugh about the challenge like it's a cartoon, sit idle, and toss away knowing the most incredible being in existence: God.

God is existence itself.More or less... Not counting the universe.What Steven Hawkings does not understand is that the universe expands against infinity which IS God.At one point the only thing to exist was existence itself.This lone existence / infinity has an intelligence.It created the universe and all things within.The universe expands against it.The universe does not expand against nothing as Steven Hawkings suggests.Think about it.It is the only way for God to not have a creator & where God resides.

At the time of a certain British air disaster caused by the wickedness of men, we heard a lot about God's permission of this sort of thing destroying people's faith in his existence at all.

I can walk about existence on my head; but the next thing I can not do, for I can not perform the miraculous, but can only be astonished by it.

But for our present purpose, it is enough to say that when we are thinking about the last things, our thought must include much more than human existence and human personality in its body - mind totality, even in its social relationships.

I can't prove God's existence just as much as scientist can't prove the big bang... there is evidence of both but to reach a conclusion takes faith... one side leaves hope and the other does not... maybe I'm agnostic too because I don't claim to know everything about why I'm here, I have to have faith... Honestly, I'm sick of the extremes on both sides... the conservative judgmental Christian, who never thought through things as to why the believe what they do (ie Dinosaurs, cavemen, evolution, etc.) and the intellectually arrogant atheist and humanists.

Whatever we perceive to be the truth about God, I think there is some things we all can agree on, believers and anyone who doesn't believe in the existence of God and that is that it is self evident that all are born equal and with dignity and it's best if everyone relate to each other as part of the human family.

Our subconscious understanding of the laws of physics and the natural laws He has set forth to allow our existence to come about can not be observed, and to say that He is flawed because we see disease is viewing things from a very limited point of view, that being a living human being with an aversion to disease and loss of health.

You are right about one thing though, the surveys you quote mean absolutely nothing as to the validity of any Deities existence.

That's the funny thing about religious people; unlike atheists, they conveniently forget about the existence of all other religions but their own

ok, ok, ok, i get it both sides think they are telling the truth there are no lyers here on this blogs only misinform people talking about two separate subjects yet thinking they are talking about the same thing the existence of god... one side believe the other doesn't what's wrong with that... sooner or later they'll changed their minds and one side will believe and the other won't so the arguement will forever be the same about two separate aguement on the same blog... but its definitely entertaining to read the comebacks... keep up the good work you all... its just as fun to read what the believer have to say as to what the nonebeliever have to say... after all it keeps all getting to know eachother better on what we believe right???

I hear people argue about things like the existence of God all the time but I rarely hear anything more compelling than «I'm right your wrong deal with it.»

Of course there is a further reason why I should approach the Bible with such a question, and that is because the Church's proclamation refers me to the Scriptures as the place where I shall hear things about my own existence which vitally concern me, a circumstance which on secularist presuppositions is merely accidental.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Sports exhibit a number of lifelike qualities of the sort that first prompted the naturalist, Darwin, to think deeply about the existence of all living things.

Both couples appear to subscribe to the belief that nothing can go wrong at home that they can't make it to hospital in time to fix, with one couple being particularly convinced about the existence of «the cascade of interventions» and the notion that bad things mostly happen as a product of OB interference.

In the introduction he reveals his bias towards wonder and his enthusiasm about understanding the world: «There isn't anything in existence — not a thing — that isn't amazing and interesting when you look into it.»

The government's new Immigration Bill is about two things: making it easier for the Home Office to forcibly remove and deport people, and creating a «really hostile environment» in the belief that people will leave the UK if their existence here is made impossible.

One more thing about Malcolm Smith: isn't this the same Malcolm Smith who threatened to redistrict the Republicans out of existence, or something to that effect back when the Democrats held the majority?

It seems we owe our existence to viruses, the least of semi-living forms, and about the only thing they have in common with any sort of theological prime mover is their omnipresence and invisibility.

If there is nothing special about our perspective, we are unlikely to be observing any given thing at the very beginning or the very end of its existence.

Doubts about the existence of cancer stem cells may have been washed away in 2012, but that has not made things much easier.

The population of our planet lives and uses contemporary technologies and gadget day by day but most of them didn't even know about the existence of such thing as dating service.

It can be said that it is a documentary about a dance studio in Chicago, and some of the things that occured in the course of that studio's existence are revealed.

Caviezel's expectedly strong work goes a long way towards keeping things tolerable even through Outlander's less - than - enthralling stretches, while the fantastic battle sequence that transpires at about the one - hour mark virtually justifies the movie's entire existence.

Dark Water is one of those movies where, even if you were to suspend your disbelief about the existence of supernatural events, it has an implausibility factor in the common things that mars the ability to properly enjoy it on its own simple terms.

Farrell is in fact too good at being ordinary — the long introduction that establishes Quaid's boring workaday existence is arguably the best thing about the whole thing.

From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating position women had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional worlds.

On the surface, let's be honest: if the worst thing about Monsters University is that its entire existence could possibly, but not definitively, be debated thanks to a offhand remark in its «sequel,» then we're all going to be very happy campers come June 21.