Although I have been thinking these things for some time, I must admit that I was galvanized into a clearer
view of these things by the recent article «Scan this Book!»
Not exact matches
He could try and do this (assuming he becomes president)
by doing a number
of things, including stacking the court with judges favorable to his
views.
Despite having previously said he did think a deal would be possible
by December, he said last night: «After my meetings here in London my main message is I am more optimistic, there is progress... That is the most important
thing because the perspective from a European point
of view towards London was in the last weeks not so clear.»
I would tend to give more credence to the competency
of their
views than those
of housing bears who post analyses and charts at the click
of a mouse, all the while unconstrained
by due - diligence standards or even such
things as the peer - review process that serves academia so well.
And FWIW, if you haven't read The Great Rebalancing yet, it might change the way you
view things at the moment — I know it did wonders for my understanding, althoguh I keep forgetting important parts
of it and have to relearn them
by reading Michael's (unfortunately infrequently) blog posts.
This list
of things mentally strong people don't do resonated so much with readers that when it was picked up
by Forbes.com it received ten million
views.
John Mack, former chairman and CEO
of Morgan Stanley, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle on «Market Makers» about Vikram Pandit's departure from Citigroup, saying that «there was a
view clearly
by shareholders that change was a good
thing.»
We, on the other hand,
view it with hope: because more than anything, the events
of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule
of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated
by borrowing from the uncreated wealth
of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip
of a switch if
things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare
of billions (
of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.
It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms
of inter-cellular cosmological wherein «activists» sometimes revolt against the grains
of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations
of travesties not uncommonly
viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand
things to be and become.
Always was and is and will ever be no matter what matters
of materialized shapes to tend to seemingly clutter up His spiritual abundancy It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms
of inter-cellular cosmologies as protruding «activists» are sometimes revolting against the grains
of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations
of travesties not uncommonly being
viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand
things to be and become.
It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms
of inter-cellular cosmological «activists» sometimes revolting against the grains
of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations
of travesties not uncommonly
viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand
things to be and become.
Rather, it is a set
of Lochner - like expansions (in my judgment)
of the Founders» understanding
of natural rights (which itself may be the correct understanding
of Locke, or not, and which, to necessarily complicate
things even more, itself was usually moderated in practice
by most Founders holding elements
of the communitarian - classical
view) that is the real ground
of my distinction between the natural rights conception
of liberty and the economic autonomy conception.
its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that
by being narrow minded in your
view towards
things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware
of who you are?
the only
thing i can sum up from all your
views is that you dismiss calvinism for its political incorrectness and note in the same fashion Jesus was dismissed
by religious leaders
of His days.
Well, there will always be a tension between those who hold a nature - worshiping Pollyanna
view of primitive society and want it preserved, vs. those who see the exact same
thing and are compelled to help alleviate the suffering
of treatable diseases, fear, ignorance, malnutrition exploitation
by unscrupulous «moderns» and environmental degradation.»
To know that certain
things trigger us, to know that what we can bear and what we can not, to know who is safe and who is not, to know where we are treasured and cared for instead
of viewed as liabilities, to know what we experienced was real and it was not our fault, to know we are not forgotten
by God, to know our unsurpassing worth and belovedness.
The 15th - century Renaissance scientist Pico della Mirandola articulates this
view,
by putting these words into God's mouth: «We have made thee [«man»] neither a
thing celestial nor a
thing terrestrial, neither mortal nor immortal, so that being thine owne fashioner and artificer
of thyselfe, thou maist make thyselfe after what likeness thou dost most affecte.»
In this
view, we humans have common ancestry not only with monkeys but also with trees and fungi and all other living
things by a process
of natural chance.
Whitehead's
view, in contrast, does justice to the strict demands
of the concept
of identity: two
things are only identical when they are exactly the same.7 A person at two different moments
of time is not the identical person; he or she should therefore be understood as composed
of many different occasions, and as «one person» only
by extrapolation.
Among most Christians and Jews, it is fair to say, the Jewish - Christian dialogue is
viewed as something
of a curiosity carried on
by people who are «interested in that kind
of thing.»
The adage is true: No one's mind has ever been changed
by a Facebook argument and my perception
of people — friends I knew personally — was changing simply because they didn't
view things the same way I did.
As Neville recognizes, his own
view that God is «beyond the metaphysical categories illustrated in the temporal process» means that he «can not except
by devious analogy be called individual, actual, knowledgeable, or a variety
of other
things Hartshorne attributes to God» (p. 61).
In opposition to the cult
of expertise, he recommends a set
of «patterns» that have been tested
by time and common sense —
things like «Zen
Views,» «Tapestries
of Light and Dark,» and «Open Shelves.»
The vision
of Christianity to which it calls people is
by and large a narrow
view of the way
things used to be.
Luther's theology seeks to stay close to the perspective
of the self addressed
by God's words
of judgment and promise; Aquinas» theology seeks to
view all
things as much as possible from the viewpoint
of God's all - encompassing wisdom, in which the human mind is allowed to participate.
I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set
of views dictated
by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL
things to see what is true.
There's no such
thing as joining AA, but one can join an AA group, and
by doing so I have found over the last thirty years enough support to not be chased out
of AA for my atheistic
views.
You just personally rate
things that happen, whether caused
by people, or just the Universe working, as good or bad from your point
of view.
He has an infinite
view of all
things, and we try to make sense
of God
by our own intellectual.
«The man in the Israelite world who has faith is not distinguished from the «heathen»
by a more spiritual
view of the Godhead, but
by the exclusiveness
of his relationship to God and
by his reference
of all
things to Him.»
That possibility seems to be ruled out for the theist, whose
view of the relation between God and creation has been molded
by the general biblical understanding
of things.
We must begin, though, with a confession that the idea
of a designing and controlling deity whose existence is rightly denied
by many skeptics is also problematic from the point
of view of a kenotic theology.If God is all - powerful in the sense
of being able to manipulate
things at will, then the facts
of evolution do indeed cast doubt on the plausibility
of theism.
The worldly
view always clings fast to the difference between man and man, and naturally it has no understanding
of the one
thing needful (for to have that is spirituality), and therefore no understanding
of the narrowness and meanness
of mind which is exemplified in having lost one's self — not
by evaporation in the infinite, but
by being entirely finitized,
by having become, instead
of a self, a number, just one man more, one more repetition
of this everlasting Einerlei.
The whole model and technology rest on a mistaken
view of where
things are, which has led
by strict deduction to an equally mistaken
view of what is «really» going on.
Working with Colin McGinn's ideas on consciousness Charlton illustrates the inconsistencies
of philosophers who
view mind as explainable
by science, while suggesting himself that «the presence
of mind in nature is not something invisible and hidden except to introspection, but the most palpable
thing there is.
As for the scenario with the 15 year old girl, well, that is the very picture
of «minimal grace» and the very sort
of thing that would be ruled out
by my
view of optimal grace.
Viewing things that way takes all the pressure off, relaxes us and a
by - product
of being relaxed and unpressured is that we become a bit nicer!!
In arguing against the possibility
of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters
of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so,
by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some
view as to the way
things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that context.
The future directed
view,
by contrast, is that revelation about God and religious truth is a continuing
thing and, in fact, a lot more
of it is ahead
of us than is behind us.
Anyway, despite all the confusion about pre-millenialism, a-millenialism, post-millenialism, the recent invention
of the rapture, Paul's confusing statement about «we who remain», the entire book
of Revelation not appearing to be written
by John because
of the Greek used, and the odd way in which eschatological
views seem to change in the New Testament Pauline letters, and the bizarrely easy way people like Thessalonians became convinced Christ had already returned in their time, and all the other confusing
things about New Testament prophecy — the truth is that it is all trustworthy and you should not question this.
It is indeed this capacity to exist,
by belonging to a system
of freedoms, which is postulated here; thereby is concretized «that perspective» (Aussicht), evoked from the beginning
of the Dialectic, that
view «into a higher immutable order
of things, in which we already are, and in which, to continue our existence in accordance with the supreme decree
of reason, we may now, after this discovery, be directed
by definite precepts» (p. 112).
On this
view, the only new
thing, which is still the old, is the state
of motion, and this involves no increase
of being, and in it,
by definition, the static, fixed element can as little be regarded as something in itself and as a definite reality, as the individual parts in a continuum can be considered separately in themselves as constituting, in that distinct condition, the whole quantitative continuum.
There is certainly a strongly held
view, exemplified
by popular scientists such as Steven Pinker, professor
of psychology at Harvard and an avowed atheist, that there is no such
thing as free will in the sense
of an independent personal entity.
His
view is that Paul basically gave himself free reign here at the start
of his teachings to the gentiles (see also 1:1 a: «Paulos, apostolos ouk ap anthroopoon, oude di anthroopon, alla dia Iesou Christou, kia Theou patros...») and then started preaching his own theology heavily influenced
by his own biases and preferences — not that any
of the writers were ever completely exempt from it
of course, but still the writer felt Paul was quite fundamentalistic at times about certain
things he had some clear opinions about, e.g. about relationships and women's position in the church etc, which he then propagated as part
of the gospel.
God's natural order can still be grasped at
by the common sense
of men
of good will, but the full truth and meaning
of creation, the separation
of the sexes and
of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely
viewed when the determined and determining purpose
of the mind
of God is recognised in creation, holding all
things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.
Science tries to do the same
thing indirectly,
by taking a detached
view of the world in which man finds himself, to apprehend that world as a unity and thus to make it a tool for the use
of man.
It is overflowing with disorderly arrangements from our point
of view, but order is the only
thing we care for and look at, and
by choosing, one can always find some sort
of orderly arrangement in the midst
of any chaos.
Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above
view has been my understanding however
things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case
of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and
by the grace
of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all
of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those
things.But does it change how we
view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting
things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some
of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz
It does this to give the
view that «all other
things» were created
by Christ, instead
of what the text says, «all
things were created
by Christ.»
Two
things: he infallibly preserves each successive cosmic and subcosmic event in his perpetual memory, thereby rendering it immortal; and he gives order and guidance through inspiration to the creatures in the next phase
of the creative Process.57 Hartshorne adopts the Whiteheadian
view that God may really rule the world but that he does so chiefly
by persuasion.