Sentences with phrase «time for a civilization»

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Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

«Actually Marx already predicted that there could be a kind of socialism which combined socialist principles with the achievements of Western capitalist civilizations but he didn't say how this kind of socialism would work since there was no evidence available during his lifetime,» Su Wei, a professor at a party school for ideological training in Chongqing, in southwestern China, told the Global Times.

The question is therefore: Is the moment in time at which this absolute historical religion makes existentially real demands on men the same for all, or has the beginning of this moment itself a history and thus is not the same in time for all men, all civilizations and periods of history.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

For these and many other reasons, it is understandable that the Church feels itself authorized and indeed obliged to have something to say in the name of Christ in the domains of history, civilization, economics, politics and international relations at the present time.

You have no pro-life credibility whatsoever if you're for ending abortion and poverty, but support sending young men and women to die overseas in order to spread Western civilization and Christianity (which utterly fails every time).

H. Richard Niebuhr taught us in The Kingdom of God in America that the triune themes of the sovereignty of God over the whole world, the reign of Christ in the heart and the expectation of a Coming Kingdom in and beyond time were all embedded in the term «kingdom of God,» and that these themes were decisive in the way Christian theology and ethics provided — with differing accents in different periods — a spiritual and moral rudder for American civilization, from its founding through the industrial era.

At least in the baseball game there is entertainment value... the church has lost it's entertainment value just under 6000 years ago except for the times they massacred or indoctrinated entire civilizations in the new world....

For the first time since Constantine, the canon of the Church is no longer identical to the dominant canon of Western Civilization.

An article by Ross L. Finney offered a dire prediction in early 1924: «Unless we shift our weight Western civilization will enjoy an illusive prosperity and greatness for a time, but will then stagger, stumble and eventually collapse» (January 24, 1924).

«For the first time in history,» writes Niebuhr, «the barbarisms which threaten civilization have been generated in the heart of a decadent civilization.

By approaching the question of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the determination of conscious experience, the enhancement of our aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement of civilization as such.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

If there's a conspiracy involved, it's over 3500 years old and better organized than any civilization for that time period to pull it off.

Even at the time, Pius IX was derided for being so retrograde as to say that the pope ought not, indeed could not, «reconcile himself to progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

He devoted much time as well to the social sciences, participating, for example, in an interdisciplinary seminar called «The Birth of Civilization», under the direction of the great anthropologist Robert Redfield.

Situations calling for the sacrifice of the martyr have not always been as obvious as in some other times and civilizations.

While the sixties were a time of exhilaration for the young, we should not forget that one of the tenets of the counterculture of that era was also the coming collapse of civilization.

That lack can be compensated for in the short run by authentic personal compassion, but over time it leads to a dispirited culture and an amoral civilization.

It is necessary to remember, in the first place, that two distinct worlds were brought together for the first time within the Islamic Society: the ancient and diversified Mediterranean tradition of Rome, Greece, Israel, and the Near East; and the original civilization of Persia with its distinctive pattern of life and thought and its fruitful contacts with the great civilizations of the Far East.

But although Roncalli, unlike the present Pope John Paul II, had little interest in the nuances of philosophy and theology, during his time in France in the «40s he learned to appreciate what the new progressive theologians were saying about the meaning of historic Christian faith for men and women in the present epoch of culture and civilization.

In a day when there is no hope for our civilization except in superior character, Christians should recall that the cross of which they sing means something besides singing — sheer courage to live above the average and ahead of the time.

Instead of a rosy time capsule of Earth and its history and inhabitants made for consumption by unknowable alien civilizations, it carries a dummy in a SpaceX space suit, and will blast David Bowie's «Space Oddity» at top volume from its speakers.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

SETI astronomer Douglas Vakoch argued that the time has come to stop waiting for some other galactic civilization to establish contact with us and make the first gesture ourselves.

Because we are looking for civilizations that exist today, we are interested in stars born around the same time as the sun — 5 billion years ago.

(Give the cephalopods time, though — maybe a few hundred million years — and they might eventually evolve ways to use their morphing as the basis for intelligence and a civilization, just as humans did with spoken language.)

For decades, East Africa has served as the «Cradle of Civilization,» but it may be time to look further south.

I think more interesting was the discovery I made with a postdoc, Sung - Won Kim from Korea, that there is a universal mechanism that always occurs: If any highly advanced civilization attempts to make a time machine for backward time travel, quantum effects will cause the time machine to begin to self - destruct explosively at the moment you activate it.

For civilizations in Europe and the Near East, the Bronze and Iron Ages — when metalworking was first developed — have been viewed as times when simple societies struggled through technological upheaval, famine, and sickness.

Then they turned their perspective around and wondered what it would take to seek alien civilizations by looking for distant analogues of Dubai, or Las Vegas, or Times Square.

«Each one would power a civilization for huge amounts of time,» Starkman says.

If you look at the history of humanity there have been cases where two civilizations have come in contact for the first time, one of these civilizations with a slightly more advanced technology, and that group has ended up subjugating the other group.

The thing that is so scary today is that we have for the first time a global civilization that is doing what many of those did: Building a huge population and abusing its environment without any thought to the consequences.

It may just take some time, says Nye, after all «[w] e've only been listening for other civilizations for 50 years, 70 years.»

It's high time for many to get reacquainted with some «old friends,» those beneficial bacteria that have been a part of civilization for eons.

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Thor's quest for survival leads him in a race against time to prevent the all - powerful Hela from destroying his home world and the Asgardian civilization.

Jaguar Paw saves his family (for the time being), but ends up captured himself, and finds that himself taken into the heart of Mayan civilization to ostensibly be used in a ritualistic sacrifice to restore the dying crops.

This sort of tasteless fare proves to be par for the course in Hot Tub Time Machine, a cinematic sign of the imminent collapse of Western Civilization.

Thor's quest for survival leads him in a race against time to prevent the all - powerful Hela (Cate Blanchett) from destroying his home world and the Asgardian civilization.

Thor must fight [Read More] for survival and race against time to prevent the all - powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization.

As a sort of hybrid approach between Civilization's historical culture - focused premise and Warcraft's fast - paced real - time strategy gameplay, Age of Empires broken new ground for the entire genre.

At the same time «an international dimension and a global perspective in education at all levels and in all its forms; understanding and respect for all peoples, their cultures, civilizations, values and ways of life, including domestic ethnic cultures and cultures of other nations; awareness of the increasing global interdependence between peoples and nations «(16) should be the objectives of education.

For it's time the Nile River Valley civilization was quite advanced influencing many civilizations that proceeded it.

• Early Egyptian religion has had a profound impact / Influence on future civilizations Procedure: 1) You will be placed in a group by your instructor 2) you will travel to a station and begin your investigation (15 minutes at each station) 3) In your group you will discuss how religion has affected Egypt Socially, Politically, or economically 4) On your graphic organizer you will provide a theme for your reasoning (single idea / though / word / s) 5) On your graphic organizer you will cite specific evidence from the sources 6) On your graphic organizer you will discuss how you can connect that information to a historical event / time or a personal connection 7) On your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizations?

And it is wonderful that he first tackles the question of the sly marketers and cheap patrons of the poor — as Bauerlein writes, time and again we see the arts used as an instrument of «salvation» for the poor rather than as a discipline that has value to civilization itself.

This will require an effort for which the schooling we have received in recent decades almost unfits us, to rediscover and give new life and conviction to those elements of history and culture, the virtues, achievements, and consolations, that have at all times shaped and sustained civilization.

If you're looking for a compact truck with some fairly serious off - road chops (for a stock truck at least) and don't care about a smooth ride or all the modern technology, then the Nissan Frontier is the truck for you (especially if you spend lots of time away from civilization where breakdowns can be more than just an annoyance).