Sentences with phrase «think in absolute»

While there is some merit in this, in general, it is incorrect to think in these absolute terms.

For now, ignore the correlation arguments that are meaningless because correlations aren't stable, and think in absolute terms.

But I think in my absolute heart of heart of hearts, although I did seriously consider killing Ron,» she couldn't have cast the killing curse.

Hard to comprehend how both the religious and the atheists think in absolutes when it is very clear that both know nothing.

I never talk or think in absolutes.

Along the same lines of being disloyal is the idea of never thinking in absolutes.

Couples who think in absolutes are less able to integrate the infidelity into the new substance of their marriage and likelier to get stuck in the past.

Not exact matches

There are going to be people that you think are just the absolute experts in something.

And the industry, you'd think, would shut the door in your face - but it's the absolute opposite.

«CMHC is making an absolute fortune right now, and I don't think it is fair,» says James Sears, co-owner of Toronto - based mortgage broker Trillium Mortgage, which has been in business since 1989.

In the end, I think we need to have absolute faith in our ability to deal with whatever is thrown at uIn the end, I think we need to have absolute faith in our ability to deal with whatever is thrown at uin our ability to deal with whatever is thrown at us.

3) Think in percentages over absolute dollars.

So I think for an average investor, it should be the absolute rule to hold around 5 to 10 % gold in your portfolio, like rule number one.

But it seems likely that the fierce intra-administration debates in the weeks leading up to it — which a White House aide described as «absolute chaos» — made it more likely that Trump would act impulsively without properly consulting his team or thinking through the details of the actual unveiling.

For example, an investor who fell victim to the dotcom bubble or 2008 financial crisis and sold their equity positions at the absolute worst time would feel anticipated regret if they were to think about re-investing in the stock market again.

I don't think you need to be an absolute expert at stock picking in order to start investing, but you should always know why you are investing in an individual stock.

The fact remains that you seem to think that including religious music is an absolute requirement in any music education, yet you say nothing as to which music should be included and which should be excluded.

I thought you didn't believe in absolutes.

To think that the creator, if there be one, of our billion gallaxy universe is or ever was interested in what happens on this third rock from our star in our corner of the Milky Way gallaxy is absolute nonsense.

I think if tf was honest and told me that he can't prove to me his God even though he may know the truth of it in his heart, then I could accept that, and he might also then see he shouldn't be trying so hard to put that cart before the horse regarding these absolute assertions on morality.

Since, apparently, the ISIS members who do such things as kidnap and behead noncombatants act with the conviction that it is what God wants them to do, it's relevant to ask of believers in general if absolute commitment to doing God's will as they think they know it is a feature of true belief in God.

I am reading your newest posts to your oldest.I have never been to bible school but I consider myself in the journey of education concerning the bible.more than any opinions that you have what concerns me most is how «brothers and sisters» through their comments responds to someone who thinks differently from what is perceived as absolutes (not sure if that's the right term) in scripture.I wonder did the apostle believe half the things that are seen as church doctirine today?how did the disciples who did not have the new testament or the ability to read follow Jesus?I appreciate your questioning.In my experience we are too quick to try and fix someone or use the scriptures as a control mechanism and to slow to practise empathy and love..

Again with the naivete, I thought if I visited my Dad in prison I'd be better, his repentance would soothe my problems away, but the the visit left me in absolute ruins.

The priest - penitent privilege recognizes the human need to disclose to a spiritual counselor, in total and absolute confidence, what are believed to be flawed acts or thoughts and to receive priestly consolation and guidance in return.

Having absolute faith is frowned upon and I think I've heard Jesus mentioned in a loving way less than 10 times in ten years.

When so many syntheses of thought have been shown to be too small a garment to fit a growing world of knowledge, when so many preconceptions have had to be revised in every field of knowledge, the modern man is in no sympathetic mood to listen to proofs for the existence of a personal God unless the very knowledge he has so recently acquired can be geared to the demonstration of such an Absolute.

Because Jesus sees man thus in a crisis of decision before God, it is understandable that in his thought the Jewish Messianic hope becomes the absolute certainty that in this hour the Kingdom of God is coming.

At it's core, this issue isn't about behavior as much as it is about absolute thinking (in all it's many manifestations).

The difficulty of establishing any absolute content for Christian faith has been widely recognized in modern Protestant thought.

We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought between the biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.

In the Preface to Process and Reality, after having stated that his philosophy is a recurrence to pre-Kantian modes of thought, Whitehead asks if his cosmology is not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis.

Time (March 10, 1975, p. 83) introduces its comment on the case with the striking words of the Westminster catechism — a document written in the amazing Cromwellian age of Protestant orthodoxy when moral absolutes were thought to be not only propositional but «in the nature of things.»

In other words, lifting a passage, or simply part of a verse as ABSOLUTE, on its own, without respect for history or at least giving thought to what the speaker was experiencing at the time they wrote / spoke it.

In other words... I think the understanding you present (they had absolute knowledge) is hogwash as well.

Perhaps, as one suggested way out, Cantorian or Dedekindian proofs are applicable to the problem after all, as indeed J. R. Lucas thinks they are applicable to making sense out of the «destiny» of infinitesimal instants in his absolute theory of time (TTS 29 - 34).

I think it was Augustus who's first title was First Citizen — implying that he was simply another citizen of Rome; but in reality he had almost absolute power (politically); and he wielded it.

So I think it is in error to try and apply the supposed goal of world wide and absolute peace onto the concept of religion, when no religion has set out to achieve that goal.

A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped by the time and place in which we live, by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of culture or time.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holinessabsolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holinessAbsolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

In truth, beyond all our experiences, ideas, conceptions, hopes and longings, there is one greater and stranger than any thoughts or imaginings we may have had about an Absolute, a Transcendent, a Wholly Other.

Practically the market has become an absolute reality, although some thinks it is not the case, at least, in theoretical terms.

One of the aspects of Buber's thought on God which is most difficult to understand is his characterization of God as an «Absolute Person,» as Being which becomes Person in order to know and be known, to love and be loved by man.

The problem for many believers is that they seem to stow absolute faith in their own beliefs while belittling anyone who thinks differently.

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.&raquIn the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.&raquin free - floating subjectivity.»

And your «unless you're open to the slightest possibility that you are indeed a space alien born a millisecond ago from another universe, then you are claiming something to be an absolute truth» I think the point was the likelihood — why do you not believe the space alien without proof yet believe in gods and angels without proof?

Hegel, who identified philosophy with dialectical thinking, also believed that philosophy is identical with religion insofar as both must negate the Given: «For religion equally with philosophy refuses to recognize in finitude a veritable being, or something ultimate and absolute, or non-posited, uncreated, and eternal» (Logic, Vol.

The problem for many atheist is that they seem to stow absolute faith in their own beliefs while belittling anyone who thinks differently.

It is interesting to contrast Whitehead's extreme objectifying and abstractive position reflected here and stated concisely in Science and the Modern World that «Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction» (SMW 21) with his later statement in Modes of Thought: «Hence the absolute generality of logic and mathematics vanish» (thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction» (SMW 21) with his later statement in Modes of Thought: «Hence the absolute generality of logic and mathematics vanish» (Thought: «Hence the absolute generality of logic and mathematics vanish» (MT 98).

One assumption Panikkar makes — one that reveals the Thomistic strain in his thought (he is a Roman Catholic priest, trained in Madrid and Rome)-- is that everyone has an experience of God (even the secularist, especially the secularist) and that everyone seeks God in the form of some absolute.

Beginning with a Nietzschean analysis of Greek thinking and literature which sees the distancing of the numinous as the center of the Greek experience, this book attempts to demonstrate that the higher expressions of religion in both East and West revolve about an absolute antithesis between religion and reality, wherein religion can only truly and finally realize itself by an absolute negation, dissolution or annihilation of reality itself.