Sentences with phrase «what seems»

When I read about Buddhism, it was just like that: practice what seems right to you, so many different ways available; whatever makes you feel good.

I would understand that you might reach a christian with a reminder about prayer, but if one is an atheist (what seems to be your intended audience) I can't see how this is going to mean anything without any shared premises.

Thus examination of the argument from parsimony serves finally to suggest not merely that Whiteheadian panpsychism remains unwarranted, but also that it is actually incompatible with what it seems responsible to take to be facts about a physical world, and should therefore be deemed false.

And that is what seems to characterise Elizabeth's approach, not only to her own work, but also to her understanding of citizenship.

While the long - range outcome of this activity is hard to predict, what seems to be happening for these Saints is a reversal of the 19th century process whereby the metaphorical was translated into literal terms.

What seems to persist over time are «historic routes» of these occasions, serially ordered into what he called «societies.»

It might be argued that Swift's public - facing shift toward strict corporate musicianship is a maturation, but for what seems like every other celebrity in 2017, maturation came with a degree of outspokenness and ownership over certain issues.

What seems most offensive about it is that faith is made identical with insight.

Therefore, there is no basis from which to create what I would call genuine historical existence, nor any way to call man to what seems to me the vital need of our age, the vocation of responsible technological existence.

This is already involved in asking ourselves and them the question of what seems truly important as a basis for selecting topics for study.

In an earlier book, Anno Domini, the author has attempted to sketch the course of this influence and has sought to set forth what seems to him to be its significance for history and what it appears to him to disclose of the meaning of the universe in which man finds himself and of the fashion in which the universe deals with man.

That's what it seems to me.

It's not so much what we do (we should do what seems most suited), but that we do something.

What seems to be your problem?

And turned about, should not a man be more ashamed of what he is than of what he seems?

In what seems to be the best text of this passage, however, the giving of the cup is divided into two acts.

What we are supposing and implying is that in our heart of hearts we ask for what seems beyond possibility of bestowal, a judgement that neither spares our capacity for self - deceit in respect of our selves and our relationships, nor annihilates the springs of our tenderness towards our neighbors and indeed towards ourselves.

In speaking of my paper on «Religion in Arden,» Robert Miola makes much of my emphasis on «the Shakeshafte theory» of Shakespeare in Lancashire and on the Catholicism of his family back in Stratford, but this was merely subordinate to my main concentration on the Catholic resonances in what seems to me one of the most Catholic of Shakespeare's plays, As You Like It, set as it is in the (ambiguously named) Forest of Arden.

What seems to put the choir off here is I bash straightforward, and many people hate straightforwardness.

What seems paradoxical to the Christian if not to the Jewish mind, and paradoxical in a nontheological and nondialectical sense, is that Rubenstein has found a religious way that can be lived at the center of a Godless world.

Through a failure to grasp the exact nature of this power newly bestowed on all who put their confidence in God — a failure due either to a hesitation in face of what seems to us so unlikely or to a fear of falling into illuminism — many Christians neglect this earthly aspect of the promises of the Master, or at least do not give themselves to it with that complete hardihood which he nevertheless never tires of asking of us, if only we have ears to hear him.

Without a conscious disruption of ongoing events and a recognition of the inutility of play, without a combination of order and spontaneity, freedom and love, what seems on the surface to be play is merely a false semblance of it.

Do not hoard what seems good for a later place... give it, give it all, give it now.

Or is what seems to us to be a holdout of evil in fact the perfect justice of God, and therefore not evil but good?

at least that is what seems to be the direction that we are going.

Can we accept what seems very unfair in life — because we have accepted the unfairness of God that has saved our very lives?

Thank you for sharing your story, I can only imagine the burden you bore and continue to bear being what seems to be a functionally single parent most the time.

Here is what seems like the 1,000 th story in the New York Times about our wonderful women in the Gulf and the poor unliberated women of Saudi Arabia who must surely envy them.

But there were also potentially smaller - scale, more personal kinds of possibilities for why people often don't speak up (or do, but get quickly silenced) about what seems clearly off - base.

It seems to me the issue is the apparent silencing of people who were speaking out against what seems to be cover - ups, concealment of evidence, and the protection of leaders by their peers.

Those that systematize biblical teaching are usually influenced both by the ways this has been done in the tradition and by what seems credible today.

And, FWIW, I do see some parallels between the kinds of behaviors going on in both Mars Hill and the E.V. / Emergent movement that have ended up in allegations of misuse of spiritual authority — and also in what seems to me to be closed systems or «interlocking directories» of connections in both.

What seems apparent to us is that these people are taught to create their own evidence for God's existence, just as some of the folks who believe in reincarnation are taught to interpret the sensation of déjà vu as evidence of their past lives flashing in their memories.

Part of what seems obvious to me is that your comments, opinions, and writings appear to stem from devout solitude such as Henri Nouwen wrote of in «Clowning in Rome».

That is, in what seems to be merely a biological fact, we find moral significance embedded.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

Does that mean the throw away the ten in the OT, given by what seems to be a very hateful, spiteful and jealous god, and take up the free - thinking «god loves you» hippy who claims to be his son?

God looks onto what seems like a dark canvas of nothingness and imagines a beautiful life — a tree bearing all kinds of good fruit that nourishes those who come to eat of it.

The problem is that this is a case where what seems like safe might be dangerous.

Yet Dunkirk has been met with what seems to be genuine enthusiasm among moviegoers who are far too young to have any personal interest in the subject.

The cultural and linguistic barrier between you and the original writer likely means that much of time, their original intent will will not be what seems to you to be the «plain sense of Scripture» or the «primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning».

Seems to me that the kid that was born with what seems to be a deformity to ever other kid in the pack would have been killed and eaten as a freak.

I'm just taking this argument to what seems like a ridiculous end but could, in fact, happen without laws defining «man and wife».

In recent years observers of survivors have been troubled by what seems to be a disorienting trend» the late suicides or mystery deaths of survivors who distinguished themselves particularly in the postwar years.

And it gripe me no end to have to put ethnicity on what seems like every form I fill out.

The seminar focused on the future of social and religious conservatism in what seems to be an increasingly hostile America.

greg with a great statement and this is not to you, but to a non believer, nothing is what it seems.

From what it seems the church going group you grew up with is an uber - conservative environment.

@Christine, I feel I recoil a little at what seems to me like the very arrogance you claim to despise.

Christ responds with what seems, on its face, to be a rather perplexing solution: He takes a child by His side and says «whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.