NACCHO said surveys suggested racism was already a near -
universal experience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, with 97 % having experienced it in the past year and more than 70 % reporting eight or more incidents in that period.
Robert's Take: Although globalization has created a near -
universal experience for gamers in the Western world, this wasn't always the case.
Not exact matches
As you might expect from a column dealing with an
experience that was both
universal (going to Starbucks) and not (getting arrested at Starbucks
for sitting at a table and not ordering anything), this one struck a nerve.
In looking
for inductive possibilities
for a move from anthropology to theology, i.e., in attempting to find an anchorage
for theology in fundamental human
experience, Berger turns to our common, «
universal»
experiences - to what he labels «prototypical human gestures.»
Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts
for modern man or woman called The Vedic
Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked
for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of
universal religion and therefore of deep significance
for all people.
The
experience of the particular is the tether that ties us to the
universal, even as there is the pang of its remaining particular, of its not being fully shared with others — at least
for now.
Insofar as an eschatological epiphany of Christ can occur only in conjunction with a realization in total
experience of the kenotic process of self - negation, we should expect that epiphany to occur in the heart of darkness,
for only the
universal triumph of the Antichrist can provide an arena
for the total manifestation of Christ.
In contrast with this
experience, which is
universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the
experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious
experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking
for food and the appreciation of art.
Hunger
for food, and its satisfaction, are
universal human
experiences.
OR, might God choose to reveal truth through the
experiences of a people who tried to be true to him, certain moral principles, failing again and trying again, people looking
for universal truths and communicating them to their children generation after generation, orally and through writing things down, organizing themselves into communities and societies, aiming
for justice, teaching each other, defending their families, lives, cities, and governments.
But I can point to the
universal experience of all humans who have a yearning
for something beyond our physical existence —
for ultimate purpose, value and meaning.
But
experiences which are so rare as to be inaccessible to ordinary persons or unrelated to the life every day can not be the basis
for a
universal religion.
Religious groups can help satisfy the
universal need
for experiences of transcendence, providing vacations from the burden of finitude (the sense of being caught in nature with its sickness and death), and the tyranny of time.
Assuming that
experience does have given,
universal dimensions, a better way to identify them is to look
for elements that seem to be presupposed in all human practice.
The quintessential feature of distinctively modern philosophy is,
for him, the subjectivist analysis of the datum of
experience, according to which it contains nothing but one's own ideas, nothing but
universals, qualities.
For example, the attempt to reconcile the principle of
universal causation with the
experience of guilt perhaps first led to the consciousness of self - causation.
An examination of other sacred writings would show their peculiar fitness
for expressing and inspiring the fundamental
experiences by which we defined
universal religion.
As suggested in chapter seven, the groundwork
for an appropriate presentation of Jesus» death is already laid in the relational principles of
universal interconnectedness, prehension and reenactment, and the overriding goal of creative advance through intensive
experiences.
21 In his James Lectures at Harvard in 1940, he abandoned the term «particulars»
for «
universals» or «qualities» that, based on the examples he cites, functioned somewhat like Whiteheadian «eternal objects»: that is, ordinary macroscopic objects or
experiences are to be conceived as a particular togetherness of these qualia at a given locus in spacetime.22
Judaism, land - rooted in content but
universal in form and reference, demonstrates that «it is normal
for religions to convert into means of salvation the
experiences arising from the social interaction which a common land makes necessary
for a people» (NZ 135).
For if the data of
experience consisted only of
universals, then the
experiencing subject would have to infer the existence of other individual actual entities, just as Descartes claimed to infer the existence of a real man in the street from the sense - data present to his eyes.
Since meaning depends upon the assignment of relevant
experiences, the five fundamentals of religious
experience may be taken as providing basic meanings
for the concept of deity in a
universal religion.
The religion is
universal because the
experiences are
universal — in contrast,
for example, to the limited
experiences involved in the definition of nature spirits or tribal deities.
Since God is
for Jesus not an object of intellectual investigation, his affirmations of faith about God have not the character of
universal truths, which are intellectually valid without being grounded in the actual life
experience of the believer.
But to be of full value
for all people in all ages these insights must be understood as illustrations and particular embodiments of general aspects of
universal human
experience.
Because their own rationalized
experience increasingly defined
for them what was «real,» theologians sought to understand scripture by relating it to their own (supposedly
universal) «reality.»
But if in physical nature also there is
experience, then there is a
universal community
for mutual participation and sympathy.
Although Metz views the categories of narrative and memory as essential
for Christian solidarity with the world, his categories refer primarily to the collective
experience of the church
universal expressed in theological terms (memory of the dead, apocalyptic hope, etc.).
In other words, Whitehead's reference to creativity as the
universal «factor of activity which is the reason
for the origin of the new occasion of
experience» (Adventures 179) is not against the ontological principle.
Every philosopher believes, and attempts to prove, that his evidence derives from
experience — whether that of God, of common sense, of Socrates, or his own; thus Plato,
for example, grounds his Theory of Forms in his doctrine of recollection, a
universal experience, universally forgotten (except perhaps by Socrates).
In its portraits of God's revelation in the mode of «promise,» biblical religion gave rise to the
experience of history as an opening of events to an always new future bearing a
universal meaning
for the events that take place in time.
For an example of the same reciprocal interaction between culture and technology from a more
universal experience let us briefly look at language.
Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search
for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no
experience can contradict and which any
experience must illustrate.4 In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly
universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «
experience as creative process occurs.
Thus, the syncretist believes, the only intelligent solution is to harmonize the various religious
experiences and insights insofar as possible, and create one
universal religion
for mankind.
It is not necessary to discuss in any detail — as has been done in the previous three chapters — the point that from the standpoint of intelligible religion the basis
for understanding must be constant reference to the
universal experience of imperfection.
Today's challenge is not to Pentecostalize the church so that it might grow, but rather to renew the church spiritually in the light of the
universal experience of Pentecost, seeking the unity of the church and of all humanity,
for whom Christ died and was resurrected.
Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions
for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common
experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the
universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.
It's about recognizing the unfortunately
universal human
experience of losing a loved one... and feeling sympathy / empathy
for someone — regardless of whether there is a personal, real life connection to that person — who is going through one of the most traumatic
experiences in life.
While there are certain
universal markers
for the different stages of labor, not all women
experience labor in the same way or at the same pace.
I know my
experience is probably not
universal, but I hope, perhaps, other moms will feel a little braver about nursing in public, even if their «nursling» is old enough to ask
for milk, or even spell it.
Parent support programs aim to support and strengthen existing parenting abilities and promote the development of new competencies so that parents have the knowledge and skills needed to carry out child - rearing responsibilities and provide their children with
experiences and opportunities that promote child learning and development.14 Parenting support programs typically include the following features:
universal access
for families, early support to families, and family involvement at all levels of program operation15 Parenting programs often encompass a variety of parenting activities, including, but not limited to, parent and child play groups, parent information classes and support groups, parenting materials, and individualized parent supports provided in response to particular child - rearing concerns or specific parenting questions.
We have an established framework of human rights protections
for privacy going back to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights of1948, which followed the
experience of totalitarian surveillance.
We campaigned very strongly
for the introduction of publicising data on infections and
universal screening because of personal
experiences of acquiring infections during hospital care.
We recognise that each of these events, while
universal experiences, are unique
for those closely involved.
It is particularly important that the
experience of the self - employed claimant is tested sufficiently robustly to find out whether
universal credit can indeed act as a work incentive
for claimants choosing that route.
Analysing research, healthcare data and the lived -
experience of 10 - 24 year olds from four different countries, MQ - funded researchers hope to find
universal risk factors
for depression.
Before I got sick, I think I knew a lot about the human
experience and some
universal experiences, but health issues certainly brought up many new feelings
for me.
I've used plenty of creatine and NO matrix supplements such as BSN NO - Xplode, San V12, and
Universal Animal Pump, just to name a few - some of them several times over - but
for the Xyience NOX CG3 that I've just finished, I have to admit that I was rather disappointed with my
experience with it, and will probably not be using it again.
If you're unfamiliar with Zola — they are a
universal wedding registry that allows you to register
for products,
experiences and cash funds all in one place.
First, it has two speeds — delicate
for fragile skin and
universal for normal skin — so you can customize your newly - elevated cleansing
experience to meet your specific skin needs.