Sentences with phrase «thinking vague thoughts»

All it would have taken was one little clause: «Employee agrees to dedicate from one - half to three - quarters of her teaching time discussing why sitting in one's room and thinking vague thoughts about God while watching a tape of Dawson's Creek is not an adequate alternative for attending Mass.» And I don't mind, really I don't.

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Thinking their son was one of the potential bombers (there are vague facial similarities), some people even started hurling invectives at the family's «Help us find Sunil Tripathi» Facebook page.

It can be easy to hide behind vague language, thinking the details will work themselves out as you go along, but if you don't have the answer now it's unlikely it'll suddenly come to you in the heat of the moment.

The more vague your ad is, the more people will apply, which, I think we can agree is bad for business.

Ask for more specifics throughout the conversation if you think what is being said is vague or could potentially get misconstrued.

The device learns your musical preferences and picks music it thinks you'll like when you give it a vague direction like, «Hey Siri, play party music.»

While most business buzzwords are simply annoying (like saying «utilize» rather than «use»), some are so fuzzy and vague that they automatically lead to confused thinking.

When you think about it, the idea of visibility can seem like a vague concept, so you have to have specific goals in mind when trying to increase your impact.

What constitutes a «career change» is a bit vague, but I like to think of it as taking a job in a new industry so that you can continue to develop your personal and professional skills.

«Think like an entrepreneur» sounds big, vague, and hard.

Though Nolan offered some vague thoughts on Alfred and Bruce Wayne's final encounter in Florence, he was slightly more specific on the mention of Robin's name at the end of the film.

The mayor - president of Lafayette thinks the local government needs a cryptocurrency, but is vague about what purpose it would serve.

He detests vague spin - doctor phrases like «studies say» and «scientists disagree,» and he refuses to advertise for Tesla, something most startup car companies wouldn't think twice about — because he sees advertising as manipulative and dishonest.

What this vague exhortation will mean in practice, observers think, is litigation.

I thought the way I put it i.e. «would look a lot more like...» was vague enough to allow for the possibility that the two profiles could be significantly different!

Whatever orthodox believers may think of Kenny's journey over these decades from classical theism to something vaguer, he is at least an equal - opportunity basher: For his aversion to absolutism can equally well be employed against the New Atheists, who affect an apodictic absolutism in their argumentation that makes them as impregnable to counterevidence as anything found in a creationist textbook.

In his attack on evolutionism in July of 2005, Cardinal Schönborn dismissed it as «vague» before, in First Things, thinking better of his assessment.

In a postscript, the lawyer relates a vague rumor that Bartleby once worked in the Dead Letter department of the post office: «When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me.

I think one reason God left it vague in Scripture is to increase our desire to tell others about Jesus.

Thanks for trying, Roger, but if Jesus (who is God) was not told by his Father (who is God) the exact date of his own return, I think we should be content with the vague word «generation» and assume it means our own.

In «Sharing A Vague Vision: Wieman's Early Response to Whitehead,» I examined four central strands in Wieman's thought which I believe can also illuminate his changing reaction to Whitehead's thought.

I too have bought quite a few Christian albums of late where I've initially thought, wow, there are some great tunes on here, only to realise they seem purposefully vague to the point that they make more references to setting suns and emotions than anything Godly.

That glimpse proves attractive, to be sure, but it is as blurred and vague as the thought is stark in the clarity of its structure and its main doctrines.

With this in mind, I began to search for a new way of translating theopneustos to more accurately reflect this, and since pneustos can be translated as «wind, breath, or spirit» thought of «wind of God» (very similar to what Jesus said in John 3:8), «God - spirited» (which was too vague for me, much like «inspiration»), or even «breath of God» or «God's breath.»

I've often thought that the Bible is deliberately vague on a lot of things.

But unlike conservatives, they go beyond some vague, theoretical wishful thought about a «second chance» or hope for the good heathen who somehow repents.

Since the Greeks (as indeed most of the ancient world though often in vague and undefined ways) were accustomed to think of death in terms of the survival of an immaterial soul, the Jewish emphasis on the resurrection of the fleshly body seemed not only unnecessary, but unspiritual and even repellent.

Thus aware of all, he stretches the canvas of his mind to include everyone and the pictures become vague and general and hence unable to evoke thought or meaning.

The effort was largely motivated by their desire to pry evangelicalism from the grip of the religious right, and the resulting document is quite generous in its definition of evangelical orthodoxy, thought it has been criticized for being too vague.

«One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet invention» (p. 479).

«In ecumenical thinking, therefore, the boundary line between church and world (and thus between salvation history and world history) was becoming progressively vague.

Third, the idea of consciousness includes that of unity, implying, in some rather vague sense, the fusion of the totality of the impressions, thoughts and feelings, which make up a person's conscious being, into a single whole.

Who would suspect from this statement that biologists of the stature of Ludwig von Bertalanffy had been writing: «I think the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in «hard» science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds»?

If we can respectfully acknowledge that a majority of todays» generation of believers are taught into the faith by their parents, we reluctantly must conclude that the theology base of * a lot * of these believers is not upon careful reflection and personal choice upon the fervent divulgence of the Scriptures, but rather a hodge - podge compilation of «feel good» thoughts that have no biblical or moral grounding other than vague references.

Preachers and theologians (especially Protestants) pride themselves on avoiding body - soul dualism, but pious talk at funerals is usually of the departed person surviving as a vague, benign spirit or as a thought in the memories of others.

I can only go by what you have written here which seemed to me to be a very vague and unfair indictment on victims who did not communicate in the way you think they should.

But that's all they are, vague hopes that I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about.

«They were in a generalized way Lutheran, which meant in some vague way that they thought they were Christian.

Emerson's essay declaring his idealism I had, I think, read, but long before; and I could not have given any but the vaguest account of what was in the book of Emerson's Essays that I read and was inspired by four or five years earlier.

The standard for the use of violence is quite vague don't ya think?

I've been wondering about this myself lately — or rather, had some vague unformed thought and wish I'd had the thought that you had that you've expressed so beautifully in this piece of art.

If we think of this subjective aim simply as a conceptual feeling, or even as analogous to an ordinary subjective aim embracing its whole career, we apt to think of it as some very general ideal, necessarily vague in order to be all - inclusive.

In the broadest sense it includes everything we know, or think we know, about the human past, whether based on faith, on vague general impressions, or on methodical investigation.

(It doesn't matter whether they have good reason to think this likely,) And there is no need for a criterion by which to determine the cases where God ought to intervene; it's enough to have a «more or less vague list of such cases.»

To think is to tie one's thoughts together in some implicit system, however vague or simple that might be.

If, as I stated to Christine above, I wanted to label any vague form of those as «god's voice» or «god's mind» or some such thing, I could see how I could do it — but after not doing it so for so long I would so quickly know that is what I am doing that I now think it would be impossible for me to «know god» as I use to.

In his religious thinking he has preserved a vague mental picture of an Aristotelian kind, while in his secular thinking about space exploration he never dreams of countering the Copernican revolution.

My thought on this now is, that when things are as vague as Christine makes them, and as Sabio points out, then the «communicative universalist» really can't be that «substantial» because that would be doctrine and putting God in a box, etc..

«How does exact thought apply to the fragmentary, vague continua of experience?»

In this vague field, more precisely, in these fields of experience, a highly organized, but as such scarcely reflected, not to mention questioned, thought mediates for common sense the image of an «exact world» which is certainly a symbolic world.