In today's world, technology wins the battle almost every time, and
those who claim experience are probably the dusty old agents who are sticking around just long enough to retire.
There are skeptics
who claim that experience is a meaningless jumble.
For example, among the more recent Fosamax cases is one filed by a woman
who claims she experienced two femur fractures in her thighs after she started taking the medication.
Not exact matches
Some twins
claim that they really can read each others» minds, but far more often, you'll find a twin
who has at least
experienced «twintuition.»
If aboriginal people in this region are ever to progress at the rate expected by politicians and others it is essential that they have the ability to be both economocally and culturally «independent» of those
who claim to know best how to address the issues but really have no prolonged on the ground
experience.
Amid such circumstances, those
who claimed that the Chinese economy is
experiencing a hard landing are being absurd.
[4] Most worrisome is the warning of Janwillem Acket, chief economist for Julius Baer Group Ltd. (BAER),
who claims that Switzerland could
experience its own version of the subprime borrowing crisis, saying, «People
who shouldn't be borrowing are now seriously considering entering the housing market.»
The older segment of this group is those
who have achieved some degree of entrepreneurial success without the benefit of a college degree and have their own
experience as proof of their
claim.
According to the complaint, Chahal lured investors by falsely
claiming to be an
experienced and successful trader
who could generate above - market returns for clients through a low - risk trading strategy.
Rosales has never filed a
claim against a worker
who violated a non-disparagement clause with an online post, and in his
experience, he said, those clauses don't prevent workers from exercising their rights to speak about workplace conditions.
Forgive me if others
who've
experienced the same thing get upset when a holiday gets stretched into MONTHS and then those calling names get so upset and
claim they are being assaulted.
What I am mocking is the pathetic way people seem to seek miracles and bow down to anyone
who claims to have
experienced one.
@ Question — Beleivers know that hardly know anything and much is a mystery — it's all you atheists
who claim to know everything about the universe yet you have had zero spiritual
experiences.
If, as the Scriptures and
experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no
claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those
who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).
You would call anyone
who denies your spiritual, psychological or emotional
experiences arrogant while you happily deny the
claimed spiritual, psychological or emotional
experiences of others.
The
claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of
experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those
who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the
claim of such an intuition against those
who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.
Webb sneaks up on a justification for a gospel of wealth;
claims that the poor providentially provide an occasion for the wealthy to show charity; discounts pluralism (though with qualification); and fails to attend to the black
experience in the American story or to consider the thought of Martin Luther King,
who held to a view of providential American exceptionalism yet was critical of military adventurism.
Julie - I was especially encouraged and thought of you while reading a particular passage because it is about the story of a woman
who was assaulted and not believed... and then about the way that it was necessary for there to be a public forum where she could
claim and own her
experience.
I also notice in my
experience that most people
who claim to be pro-choice
who I have talked to are not open to dialog and seem to deflect with other issues when talking about abortion.
The Easter
experience, that Jesus is the living Lord
who claims us as his followers, can not be demonstrated to be true like a scientific proposition.
I can't say that everyone would
experience the same thing if everyone did what I did because not everyone
who claims to have done the same thing have also stated that they had the same type of
experiences nor have they come to the same conclusions as I have.
I understand that some people
claim that God speaks to them directly, but this is not the
experience of the majority of those
who seek a relationship with God.
Genuine Christians
who've converted from Islam have had their asylum
claims rejected and been sent back to their country of origin where they're at risk of
experiencing family rejection, beatings and even death.
He cites writings by John O'Malley as well as those by Gregory Baum,
who claims the council reflects a «Blondelian shift» from «extrinsicism» toward
experience and immanence.
Without a living
experience of God, then the pagan
claims seem convincing on their own, especially those incomplete (often misquoted) stories on the web about
who and what were those ancient pagan frauds (horus, mithra et al).
Even those
who can
claim to have had direct, personal
experience of the divine must somehow interact with persons
who can not make or even understand such a
claim.
David Hall, a longtime acquaintance of Carson
who said he watched the two work together,
claims that Andrews supplied rough sketches from her
experiences in Beverly Hills, and Carson wove them into a fictional narrative describing her exotic adventures with various shamans based on his own knowledge of Native American culture.
In my
experience... the vast majority of Jews have no such animosity; and the
claim that they have sounds as if it comes from someone
who does not like Jews.
@Megatron Not all
who claim to be Christian believe what you state: «God creates the situation we're in, our minds and controls exactly what we
experience and how we're going to react, how can we have free will?»
At the same time, these
claims and the original
experiences that generated them are a source of insight into
who Jesus is.
But popular culture is filled with firsthand accounts from all sorts of people
who claim that they, too, have proofs of heaven after undergoing near - death
experiences.
In my
experience the people
who most benefit from this are people with a negative
experience of Christianity
who find the message of grace attractive, but
claim that seeing God from a perspective of grace is «not biblical».
I might believe that the woman
who claims to be my mother is in fact my aunt, or that my physics textbook is a conspiracy of lies written by heliocentrists, or that the sense
experiences I have are illusions created by an evil demon.
If «deeply felt personal
experience» is sufficient proof of a
claim, then's let's accept that, along with the necessary corollary that all such
experiences must be equally valid, such as the gentleman in the asylum
who deeply feels he is Napoleon.
... Well, billions of people have placed their souls in the hands of one man, «Muhammad»,
who claimed to have had a spiritual
experience that NOBODY ELSE SAW!!
RC; one more time, because of the history and archaeology I have researched as well as personal
experience with the one
who claims to be.
Religious liberals,
who claim to find God in human
experience, should view as significant the two centuries of this American experiment with religious openness.
This coming from someone
who lied and
claims medical tests prove he
experienced god.
You
claim to have personal
experience but yet again, personal is just that... it has no pertinence to anyone except you - you are the only one
who had that
experience and it would be different (even if slightly similar) than another persons.
On the contrary, I should
claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of
experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific
experience from which it started but also other
experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which
claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one
who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.
Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious
experience is
claimed by all theologians
who talk about religious
experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists
who assumed that
experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.
Houlden goes on to tell us that there is diversity in the reporting of how this impact occurred: yet he rejects the
claim, sometimes made by highly skeptical scholars, «that no intelligible picture can emerge and no statement, of greater or lesser probability, concerning the Jesus whose impact those
who gave the early witness
experienced, can be made» (p. 134).
The present, therefore, in Jesus» thought, was not simply Satanic, as current teaching
claimed; the kingdom of God was an immediate
experience as well as a future expectation and those
who were in the kingdom, possessing, as they did, a life with eternal issues inherent in it, could triumphantly surmount affliction.
He and his father, Kevin, co-authored a The Boy
Who Came Back From Heaven together in 2010,
claiming that Alex had died,
experienced numerous heavenly encounters and been resurrected.
Although some
who participate in this type of therapy do not
experience the full transformation they hoped for, others
claim conversion therapy helped them achieve the results they sought.
Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the
claim that the integrity of personal
experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope
who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»
To
experience reconciliation through the blood of Jesus Christ is quite different than giving mental accent to a particular belief.Now our society has devolved to where believers are labeled as «haters», when in fact, the hate emanates from those
who claim otherwise.
These are the words of men
who were compelled by God to tell, not only what they
claim to have heard God say, but things happening in and around them — their struggles, personal reasons for writing and specific
experience of God.
In my
experience (which is obviously limited, so take what I say as you will), women
who are looking for companionship on a website that
claims it will help you «Find God's match for you» are more likely to suspend their natural credulity with regard to their own safety, assuming that only those genuinely interested in a god - based relationship would be on such a site.
It
claims that by rooting around in our own egos or by reflecting upon our life
experiences as men or women, whites or blacks, we really won't discover much that is worth knowing, unless we know this Jew from Nazareth
who is the way, the truth and the life, and are part of a people
who follow him.