Take the time to figure out
what actual experience you have even thought it may not seem directly relevant to your chosen field.
The graphic depictions of the maddening effects of the war are never shown, leaving us to rely on our own imaginations as to
what the actual experience may have been like.
We need to work through, with great breadth and depth,
what our actual experience has been, both in the dominant culture shaped by males and in the suppressed experiences of women.
Not exact matches
Quite frankly, I'm not interested in any «intelligent discourse which is little more than a circle jerk of a discussion where privileged people sit around and abstractly theorize about
what the «real problems» of and «solutions to» marginalized people's problems that doesn't center the words and
experiences of
actual marginalized people and their own understanding of their own problems.
If examining rational arguments, perceiving God in transcendent
experience, and delving deeply into difficult questions are
what drew me closer to Christ, seeing Christ work in the lives of
actual Christians is
what opened my heart to Him in the first place, allowing me to see how He had been working in my own life all along, even when I had refused to seek Him.
Indeed, process thought maintains that the very reality of God's concrete nature is completely dependent upon
what each
actual occasion of
experience contributes to it.
What was a possibility one moment becomes
actual through the exercise of creative freedom, the free decision of a momentary
experience as to how it constitutes itself.
While I tend to agree with the views posted by Cpt Obvious, Tim, dandintac, et al, I do admire that you are presenting your point of view in a personal manner and seem to have put some
actual thought into it and you recognize that not everyone will have the same
experience as you, and you don't condemn others for not feeling the same way (although it does make me wonder
what your thoughts are on eternal torment for non-believers).
In «secular
experience,» God appears to be one of those general «factors which are either non-
actual or non-temporal, disclosed in the analysis of
what is both
actual and temporal» (RM 87).
The problem for Nature, as he describes it in Process and Reality (Part II, Chapter III, Section VII) is to produce societies which can survive through time but which do not sacrifice all opportunity amongst their constituent
actual occasions for
what he called «intensity» of
experience.
What has been expressed here is that * some * evidence does exist — enough to create a theory or hypothesis that reasonates with people's
actual experiences, that fits the evidence and
experiences they do have to go on and provides real, demonstrable benefits in the process.
Whitehead's exposition appears to be question - begging, since he appears to assume that
what he describes is an (accurate)
experience of CE, whereas it is an open question for the subject whether the
experience is accurate or not, whether it is an
experience of
actual CE or only an
experience believed to be of CE.
Useful as it may be to abstract types of things from the welter of everyday
experience, we must not commit
what Whitehead called the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness» whereby these abstractions are treated as if they were the
actual realities under consideration.
What becomes are the durational units or drops of
experience, which Whitehead calls «
actual entities».
In fact, in spite of his insisting that most
actual occasions are unconscious (and that there is much that is unconscious even in that series of
actual occasions which constitute our successive mental states), his talk of their
experience or feeling of themselves, the influence of their predecessors, and their subjective immediacy seems pointless unless each of them is supposed to feel its own being, in some genuine sense, however dimly, so that there is a truth as to
what - it - is - like - being - it.
Now it is exactly in situations like this — according to the standard account of orthodox Whiteheadians — that God is supposed to lure the world, by means of
what he proffers to
actual occasions via subjective aims, toward that falling out of events which will make his future
experience most positive.
Whitehead's standard for
what the self - identity of an
actual entity must be is so atomistic and Parmenidean that nothing we can conceivably identify in
experience will fulfill it.
What new possibility for life, for
experience, for free choice, for affirmation does this
actual event allow for?
Part of the reason for this is that the typical theological explanation of death's meaning seems unsatisfactory, inadequate to the
actual experience of death, artificial or forced in attempting to articulate a faith response to the question:
What does it mean to die?
But in both cases the prehensive unifications
what Whitehead calls the
actual occasions of
experience, are highly selective unifications of other prehensive unifications, conscious or not.
My
actual experience is a prehensive unification of my past
experiences and
what is taking place in my body.
But in another sense, God is dependent on
actual experience in order to know not
what things could be but
what they actually are.
What is more, by insisting on speaking of time as in
actual occasions rather than
actual occasions being in time, Whitehead makes it possible to speak of the
experience of time.
What does this mean for the
actual, on - the - ground
experience of living alongside the plurality of religious communities — and nonreligious ones too — that we can not escape or ignore in our world?
Whitehead's alternative to substance is
what he calls «an
actual entity» which is a drop of
experience (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.
Thus we
experience precisely in freedom
what is meant by God, even if we do not name or consider this ineffable, incomprehensible, infinite goal of freedom, which makes possible the distance to the object of our choice, the
actual space of freedom.
But is it not a fact that we often, perhaps usually, have in our minds an impression of the appearance of any person about whom we have thought or heard much, even though we may have had no
actual basis for the impression, either in our own
experience or in
what others have told us?
Furthermore, since God is conceived by Hartshorne as a society of
actual occasions, it is legitimate to ask
what the temporal extension of a single divine
experience is.
Finally, this paper is concerned mainly with objective correlates of
experience —
what Whitehead called a coordinate analysis of
actual occasions.
But since instantaneous spaces are determinable only by
what appears to
actual observers (albeit perhaps in different families of durations — CN 177), these spaces taken together constitute all nature as it may be divided into alternate classes of durational
experiences.
On the other hand, the purpose of the classical disciplines of the life of prayer — such as postures, directing of thoughts, or devotional objects — is to provide
what have proved in
actual experience to be the most favorable conditions for real prayer.
In addition, the
actual meanings of value terms change since the sense of ethical concepts is vastly dependent upon
what is learned from their enactment in
experience.
We have noted that
what must be assumed, in order that human
experience (and the ultimate particles of nature) can be understood, are successive «
actual occasions of
experience.»
My chief concern has been to communicate some notion of
what Whitehead means by
actual entities or
actual occasions of
experience, how they are related to each other, and how they are grouped together in societies.
I can accept only
what is comprehensible to me; i.e., that which is within the province of
actual or possible
experience, or that for which I find some sound reasons or evidence.
Rather, these basic constituents are events or happenings: they are
actual occasions which have a subjective side, as «puffs of
experience, and an objective side, as genuinely there in the world and as making up that world for
what it is.
It is the fusion of these three elements in his representation of Jesus» life and teaching that makes it a matter of the greatest difficulty to distinguish in any particular discourse between
what rests upon a deep understanding of the true meaning of Jesus»
actual words and
what is read into them in the light both of
experience and of preconceived ideas as
what the Word of God should fittingly proclaim.
So, though it is true that every
actual entity must be initiated by
what has already been done, each must also
experience a unique combination of others» superjects in its «
actual world.»
To
experience part of
what an
actual entity has done (including God is to prehend it all.
Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to
what is common and generic, we have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving
experiences come, («The influence of the Holy Spirit, exquisitely called the Comforter, is a matter of
actual experience, as solid a reality as that of electro - magnetism.»
This arises from that sense of prophetic judgment on everything
actual, in
what we have called the
experience of imperfection.
In my
experience most of our guests are unfamiliar with
what is meant by «Corked Wine» though most have
experienced it unaware of the
actual problem.
The
actual experience leaves our guests with a pretty good impression of who and
what we are all about.
Research on adult attachment shows that it is not the
actual childhood
experiences with attachment that matter but rather how well the adult understands
what happened to them, whether they've learned some new ways of relating, and how well they've integrated their
experience into the present.
But in retrospect, I would have chosen differently, based on my
actual birth
experience and
what I learned about the culture of this particular organization.
Do not hesitate in asking the right questions like the cost involved, the agency's
experience, training offered for different types of adoption, international adopting policy, any kind of supportive services offered and
what type of counselling is provided to the
actual birth parents of the child, if the infant is adopted domestically.
You can
actual write about
what you felt when you were spending time alone or about your dance
experience.
We explore
what happens when your birth vision does not match up with the
actual experience (and how that can be a great thing).
I will talk about
what it is, review the
actual ebook and then talk about my
experiences using it.
I shared yesterday
what I wore on our excursion to Franklin BBQ, and today I'm going to tell you about the
actual experience.