As cold, harsh and upsetting as the actual event is, loss is one of the most powerful and important
things humans go through.
Not exact matches
This is exactly the kind of
thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are
going to displace
human workers.
«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.
«Technology may let us talk together, and share information together, and analyze a few
things together, but I wouldn't worry about
going away from
human decisions,» he said.
On this year's list, robots are
going places no
human has ever been, «big data» is doing
things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).
«It's
human nature to want a laundry list of all the acceptable
things but it's
human nature that you're
going to forget something too.»
When
things go wrong, it is
human nature to want to find someone to blame.
«The parts of medical care to do more with interacting with the patients, making them comfortable, and communicating clearly with them are
going to turn out to be the
things that only
humans can do well.
«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 have a tough time in any near - term or any medium - term sort of scenario seeing that robots are just
going to do their own
thing and decide to shoot each other without any interaction [or]
human control.»
Yeah,
go back to your X-Box and let the real thinkers like DumbG there conjecture about all the
things no one can disprove, for to truly disprove anything you need complete knowledge of everything in the universe, and since no
human will ever achieve that, people like DumbG can tell as many unproven «truths» as they want.
So how do you
go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain
things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of
humans who wrote
things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».
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!!!
Could it have been god telling us how to protect ourselves from disease, germs, and bacteria?Couldn't you see a scientist from today's time,
going back to the bible days, and trying to explain, the
things we as the
human race didn't know till modern times?
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.
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably
gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking
thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every
human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.
In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good
things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the
human person)
goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole).
Brennan's pursuit of amending the Constitution through interpretation by unelected officials would cause him, among other
things, to vote repeatedly to strike away the legal protections that a world dead and
gone had traditionally afforded unborn
human beings.
Basically,
humans are
humans and if we don't have a set of rules to
go by we'll by nature corrupt & ruin
things.
[4] «cf. Meilaender, Gilbert, The Giving and Taking of Organs, First
Things, March 2008, where he emphasises that
humans are called to live their bodily life as a personal gift to others and that «presumed consent... does
go a long way toward treating persons as handy repositories of interchangeable parts to others.»
And by you saying he ruined your life, is very bad to say, he changed my life, I have lived through alot of this, all because I did ask, and I lived, I am getting through, and its thanks to God, he can get you through anything, all
things are possible with him, and that is true, my anxiety and depression have
gone down (I am still
human), and I just am an all around better person because of him, and you should get rid of your Facebook as well, and devote every hour minute anything you can towards God and Christ, turn the tube off, and just devote it to him, I promise you won't be sorry, good luck and God bless!!!
Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of
things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that
goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of
human ends.
On the Crusades — «not the proudest moment in Christian history but nor were they the childish caricature of modern Western guilt and certainly not that of contemporary Muslim paranoia» — he
goes into some detail to describe not only the background and the geopolitical state of
things, but also the realities of
human behaviour, both good and bad.
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.
Although I have my personal belief regarding these
things here, as long as I can not offer watertight Scriptural evidence for my confidence, I can only copy and paste some verses which could point to the fact that God meets every
human being twice or even three times during his lifetime in order to show him the way he should
go and to bring him to repentance.
But here is the
thing... just because we don't want to
go off the deep end and idolize nature or damage and destroy
human lives for the sake of nature, this does not mean that we can ignore the environmental needs of the world or just consume and destroy the natural resources of this plant in any way we want.
Things are looking up, and the credit
goes to the
human desire for betterment, not blind faith in muddied ancient dogmas.
«Drunkenness,» he says, «is a difficult
thing for
human beings; and as far as it is in my power, I should neither be willing to
go on drinking nor to advise another to do so, particularly if he still has a headache from yesterday's debauch.»
The fourth step
goes a bit further, to see «the trajectory eventuating in the creation of
human historical existence» not «as a metaphysical surd but rather as grounded in the ultimate nature of
things, in the ultimate mystery.»
Our problems don't
go away unless we get help from other
humans or take action for ourselves... there's no God in the sky that does a dam
thing about our prayers.
At most, you can find Genesis 9:1 - 6 as allowing eating of meat and not explicitly stating that it is OK to eat
human flesh (as long as you don't consider
humans as «moving» creatures), but as far as looking at the law in detail
goes; search the Law in detail and you will find many explicitly laid out
things that you «shall not eat» listing many different types of animals and circumstances but you will not find
humans listed among them.
: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of
things» (page 178) and
goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in
human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).
Later, when
humans went on their merry way and started «sinning» again this same god ra.ped the virgin wife of this guy named Joseph in order to recreate itself (why it couldn't do the dirt
thing again is anybody's guess).
We live in a world where many of the
things the Bible says — God made everything,
human beings are responsible for the world's problems, God chose Israel as his special people, sex is only meant for one man and one woman in marriage, Jesus is the only way to God, the wages of sin is death, God is
going to judge the earth one day, and so on — are profoundly unpopular.
The bible, a
human creation, attempts to explain our capacity for evil that
goes all the way back to the beginning of existence where we want what we can't have (the forbidden fruit) and jealousy (Cain and Abel)... which are the same
thing.
What I'm really
going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the
human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed
things up a tad).
What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of
human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of
human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to
go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of
things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.
Why do you talk about only what he didn't menage to do, or what was wrong in his pontificate?Yes, I agree there were many
things that could have been resolved in better way, but he was only a
human and as everybody could make mistakes.To me what is important in his pontificate is that he was a first pope who «opened «the church to people, who travelled a lot, met with people,
went to synagogue, did much to abolish communism.Sure, he wasn't ideal, but for me the best pope so far.
Then it began to
go sour: the targets came increasingly to dominate everything else, corners had to be cut, any spirit of service gave way to pressure to get profits: the
human side of
things seemed to vanish.
I just hope you are willing to admit that the
human condition is a flawed one, which means all groups are not
going to do everything right, but many will do good
things.
But the only
thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers:
Go off and write out of the very fullness of
human experience about the very fullness of
human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.
The problem is when people start taking
things that are fundamental to the Bible, like male / female duality and the preciousness of
human life established in Genesis 1, and saying, «Eh, these
things don't matter,» and then
go on to support causes that contradict these foundational values (e.g., gay marriage, abortion).
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil
thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we
human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing,
human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
I just wan na say weather what proof you have or evidence every religion book, scriptures, and testamony might know how the world will end but does nt know cause if everybody knew what day it was
going to happen they would do all the
things that people are doing following this man like quiting jobs and all that because in the bible under «THE CALL TO READINESS «it says God or jesus does nt want you to worry about when the world will end but the do want you to keep busy and continue to work hard JUST LIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the world so i do nt think noone should buy into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us
humans have been following his will and working hard!!!
Whether you believe more in
human values or heartfelt spiritual values, your comment does nothing that
goes to the heart of the debate — that helping one another
goes a lot farther than neglecting or paying for
things that bring pain and suffering to one another...
The sad fact of the matter is that no matter how many time we as a race of
human beings continue to act like it doesn't happen and like we don't expect these
thing to
go on.
No, to find a time when I could comfortably say, «This is a
thing with no
human rights,» I had to
go to the first part of the first trimester.
On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both
human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how
things actually and concretely
go in the world.
It is thus comfortable precisely because it has «
gone through many waters» which have not defeated and can not «drown it»; it is «terrible as an army with banners», not because like such an army it uses force, but because it is in itself the only really strong
thing in the whole world and in
human experience.
I think that's exactly the kind of
thing we should expect from
going deeper and realizing what types of
things are alive and well in our
human hearts.