Sentences with phrase «too human an idea»

This is too human an idea.

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An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

Here's what I keep coming back to: The setup of Westworld — throw humans into a theme park where they can do anything, and they almost invariably do evil — is really compelling, but instead of diving into those ideas, we're following this ridiculous «robots are people too!»

-- throw humans into a theme park where they can do anything, and they almost invariably do evil — is really compelling, but instead of diving into those ideas, we're following this ridiculous «robots are people too!»

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Stephen Fry speaking about atheists: «The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too.

That the Christian idea of God (reputedly drawn after the pattern of the man who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried) has all too often been recast in the shape of human dreams of power and glory is a fact of ecclesiastical history which it would be hypocritical to pretend were otherwise.

The idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and endure for our fellow men, but who will pour new life into our too languid love, and give firmness to our vacillating purpose, is an extension and multiplication of the effects produced by human sympathy.

Clearly this activity will be taking place somewhere, because human existence is too problematic for people to stop searching for ideas and ways of living that will make everyday life meaningful.

These are the elements of our dilemma: whose chief feature, in my view, is that we have been left with far too shallow and flimsy an idea of human personality [«Against Dryness,» Encounter, January 1961, p. 16].

This idea of the planetary totalization of human consciousness (with its unavoidable corollary, that wherever there are life - bearing planets in the Universe, they too will become encompassed, like the Earth, with some form of planetized spirit) may at first sight seem fantastic: but does it not exactly correspond to the facts, and does it not logically extend the cosmic curve of molecularization?

The bathetic pomp of the heavy, tasseled brocades, the marble, the censers hanging from chains, the embroidered antependium, the aspergillum, the crosiers the ornate lamps — some human's idea of elegance — bespoke grand comedy, too, that God put with it.

As a Jew in the newly post-Holocaust period, and as someone who had come with adulthood to loathe the Soviet government and its apologists, I too for a time, that much - libeled time known as the fifties, professed to derive my ideas of the world from a deep commitment to the doctrine of human imperfectibility.

But this clamor for complete sinlessness in the human Jesus can also be the result of a Jewish and Neo-Platonic idea that God, the perfect, is too holy to behold sin and certainly too holy actually to identify himself with the sinner.

The human problem is that we all too often commit ourselves to particular past products of the creative event, that is, to particular values as embodied in ideas or institutions.

I shall seek to advance the possibly too - simple idea that everything is related to everything else, and that every part of human experience is interrelated.

Lastly, I feel that like Joan, we too must be firm and be able to stand up against all forces that are against God's concern for human liberation and justice, even the church if we are to be in obedience to God, for though the church is God's many a times, the churches have and tend to practice things which are against God's idea of church, like possessing wealth.

Instead, research and studies have found that co-sleeping and bed - sharing give children the capacity to fully engage with others, develop problem solving skills that children who sleep alone may not possess, and that human development is too complex to link with one particular idea or notion, whether it's bed - sharing or sleeping alone.

There is a broader headache, too: the idea that by deciding to actively meddle in humans» make - up we are beginning a process that will eventually lead to custom - made babies.

What I am criticising, and will continue to criticise, is the escalating inability of the middle - class left to talk to or about anyone who is NOT middle class and middle - aged as if they are human beings, to really listen to their needs and thoughts and strategies and accept that they too have political ideas which are just as important as yours.

Marketers are pragmatic: they tap into the idea that humans have an evolved tendency to react with disquiet when people look too different, and will only use an image if they think enough people will respond positively.

Meanwhile, because the decoy effect has been exhibited in humans, too, these results in frogs add support to the idea that this irrationality may have deep biological roots.

«The idea that human adaptation might proceed by single changes at the amino acid level is quite a nice idea, and it's great that we have a few concrete examples of where that occurred, but it's too simplistic a view.»

re: ``... and / or those who use sustainable farming methods...» Since there is no way to farm animals in a sustainable way for the current human population (watch the movie Cowspiracy to understand why), that idea goes out the window too.

Before long, Harold can hear this narrator too, and like any sensible human being he's alarmed by the idea of some disembodied voice following him about and commenting on his actions with an air of snarky detachment.

If the idea was to portray them as basically good, with human frailties, insufficient depth was given along these lines, too.

The world is great too... love the idea of a robot walking by a human skeleton, and him thinking its just another wierd robot.

I like the idea that hero Ben (Tony Todd, filling in for Jones) is given to fits of rage and irrationality, leading, in this iteration, to his death — and I like, too, the complexity allowed stock human bogey Cooper (Tom Towles), who is after all only defending his daughter at the end.

While about 90 percent of the world's population use these surrogates in their everyday lives, the other ten don't care for the idea too much, going so far as to live outside of the majority on reservations where signs boasting / warning «Humans only» stand by the entrance.

In this way, atrocities committed against women are considered «too female to fit the concept of human or too human to fit the idea of female.»

The idea is to alert the driver of human life before the main headlamps awash over the person, at which point it could be too late to react should the vehicle be on a crash course.

The idea of stealing another writer's words or trying to discredit them or falsifying reviews or trying to have people write fake reviews of my work sounds crazy to me, but I am guilty of highlighting the parts of the PW review that I liked most about my most recent book; it was a mixed review bc the reviewer thought the novel had too many coincidences / was too neatly wrapped up at the end, but that's one of my signatures, I think, now that I've written three books, two published, and one in the works, so I'm actually proud of the strange kismet, sometimes magical occurrences that happen in my work because they also happen in my life, and that's what this whole post is about: about being true to oneself, which includes a moral code, a writers and human code of ethics.

It is also a good idea to keep bacon out of your cat's bowl — this food is way too high in fat to be good for anyone, human or feline.

Since he thrives on human company, leaving him alone at home for too long isn't a good idea.

It's amazing how much the human needs to become comfortable with the idea too!

I don't want to give away too many solutions, but to give you an idea, there's a ghoulish amusement park in which you need to help a werewolf become human again, so using your wordsmith skills you'll have to come up with an object or adjective to help.

Of course, this idea would rely on some stellar map design — the areas would need to be open enough for the human to hide, but not too open as to make it impossible for the alien to find them.

Us too, and it gets better: the piece explores topics around human impact and the Anthropocene, i.e the idea that us, humans, have irrevocably buggered up the planet, in short.

Titled Unrealism — as much to indicate the show's focus on the heightened and surreal as to comment on the ubiquitous label «untitled», which serves as a lazy catch - all for work too of - the - moment to reference history, antecedents or fully thought - out ideas — the show was a not - to - miss tour de force, a revelation of the power of extreme figuration to elucidate the human condition — Tala Madani, Emily Mae Smith and Jonathan Gardner were among the standouts, with Jenny Saville, Richard Prince and John Currin among the 11 artists upholding the Gagosian brand.

Playing with the idea of transparency as a material quality (say, in see - through containers and screens), as well figuratively (as in the expression, «we're in the clear», or «everything is ok»), the In the Clear, Caring, Curing title points to the all - too - human obsession with preservation and protection across all its composite works.

I'm excited by the idea of «human potential», even if it is far too easy to be cynical about it.

And let me give you my take on Kuhn's ideas as they relate to AGW — AGW was the paradigm - shift away from the idea that climate was on too massive a scale to be influenced by human activity.

Rest assured, though, Bozo will rise again — despite a near - continuous barrage of blows supporting the idea that the climate's sensitivity to human greenhouse gas emissions is far too low to justify any of the expensive and futile actions emanating from Washington and Brussels.

By choosing to portray these issues as negative rather than presenting them as opportunities for truly radically evolutionary change, to cultivate compassion, patience, gratitude, by playing into people's fears, insecurities, worries and by too little emphasizing genuinely positive emotional responses the environmental community is just activating ways of thinking that stifle the very creativity and openness to new ideas that is needed in this hour of human need.

Usually the basic human idea is to have some return on the money, which is invested over a long term as in the case of a Term Insurance Plan too.

Don't put too much stock in the outcome in Quebec unless the final outcome is based upon pure human - based common - sense and rational reasoning based upon today's realities, and not upon some dictator's ideas (efficient and seemingly workable in their day as they were determined to be by their followers, and current supporters) that were not agreed upon by the masses, but were forced upon them to be adopted and espoused by the same, or else; no wonder they have held sway for so long... there is a very strong element of treasonous thinking directed toward any «outsider type thinking» regarding this hallowed legal code.