In the grand scheme of things, a little back pain when you're creating
a whole other human being isn't a big deal, but in the moment it sure does feel like one!
Not exact matches
There
is no
other way, in fact, for us to exist as true community... the ultimate community
being the
whole human race.
Dalahäst There
are whole medical and scientific fields which study emotions in both
humans and
other animals.
No, we don't pray before meals; instead we try to treat
others with respect and
be decent
human beings on the
whole.
Every Christian I knows works hard to do both a) show gratitude to God for His provision and b) «treat
others with respect and
be decent
human beings on the
whole.»
The
other group sees
human beings as part of the interconnected web of life, and it sees value in the
whole rather than in its isolated parts.
It means making sense out of the relations that
human beings and
other living things have toward the overall patterns of nature in ways that give us some sense of their proper relations to one another, to ourselves, and to the
whole» (Toulmin, 272).
There
is no
human being apart from relations with
other people, with
other animals, and with the
whole of creation.
The
other myth describes a time when all
human beings lived in one harmonious society; «the
whole earth had one language and the same words,» says the story of the Tower of Babel.2 The myth then explains why, in historical time, there have always
been many languages, many cultures and many societies.
The highest cause may
be (1) in every sense or aspect «uncaused,» in no sense or aspect the effect of anything else; or it may
be (2) in some aspects uncaused, and in
others causally influenced, but its manner of both acting and receiving influences may
be the highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its
whole being may not in every sense
be perfect, because the influences as coming from
other causes, say
human beings, may
be less admirable than they might
be; or the supreme cause may
be (3) in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent of
other powers, hence in no way wholly exempt from the imperfections of the latter...
In
other words, when theologians affirm faith in the transcendent God of the scripture, they
are affirming faith in the God who has acted in
human history to make
human beings whole and redeem them from their sins.
It must mean a willing adjustment to our situation as
human beings in the
whole creation, and that must mean accepting a relationship not only with
other human beings but with the Spirit behind the
whole scheme.
Let us speak of a
whole life of sufferings or of some person whom nature, from the very outset, as we
humans are tempted to say, wronged, someone who from birth
was singled out by useless suffering: a burden to
others; almost a burden to himself; and yes, what
is worse, to
be almost a born objection to the goodness of Providence.
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a
whole mythology; (2) he
was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has
been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no
other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his
is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he
is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his
is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he
was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he
is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual
human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.
You
're right... a
whole host... political, social, emotional, physical, mental... in
other words, it
's being human in the disquise of
being something special and «unique»; an odd need we
humans seem to have.
On the
other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes
human experience,
is made problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic
whole.
First of all this happened — and this one must keep clearly in mind while seeing the
whole — there
was given me a gigantic revelation of
human lying and brutality on the one hand, and of
human stupidity and fear on the
other.
There never
was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can
be easily explained that they
are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today
are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the
other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will
be Panthrotheism, the belief that we
are all one with the
whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for
human survival that will subject us
humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we
are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the
whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now
is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will
be One with God.
We can now see how this view differs quite distinctly from that of Adam Bede himself: for Adam, the love of God and the love of
others are mutually reinforcing, while for Marian Evans the love of God, or rather the
whole notion of God, has a strictly instrumental function and can safely
be abandoned when it
is no longer needed as a stimulus to the love of one's fellow
humans.
Any genuine
human life - relationship to Divine
Being — i.e. any such relationship effected with a man's whole being — is a human truth, and man has no other t
Being — i.e. any such relationship effected with a man's
whole being — is a human truth, and man has no other t
being —
is a
human truth, and man has no
other truth.
Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the
whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the
whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the
human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each
other and their «gods.»
Its sociality, as a result, becomes largely «technical dialogue» with the social understood either as an organic, objective
whole or as the mere communication and interaction between
human beings who may in fact relate to each
other largely as Its.
Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the
whole national community, that in any case the Indian church
is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in
other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a
human right (ref.
In
other words, what
is God doing in the
whole creation, not just in
human existence?
But on the
other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it
is so easily forgotten that in a way it may
be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the
whole life may
be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to
be or wills to
be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a
human self
is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will
is for this self.
Just as the success of the computer depends upon the meticulous preparation of instructions by the programmer, omitting no step in the
whole process, so it
is assumed that the success of the
human learner, who
is believed to
be (among
other things) a very complex cybernetic mechanism, depends upon the scrupulous logical organization of teaching materials.
Now if we suppose that God cares for the
whole of creation and that
human history interacts with all the
other processes taking place on this planet, we view the global industrialization that
is celebrated by Stackhouse and McCann quite differently.
«This
is the witness that the church has to give to the world, that all the
other mandates
are not there to divide people and tear them apart but to deal with them as
whole people before God the Creator, Reconciler and Redeemer — that reality in all its manifold aspects
is ultimately one in God who became
human, Jesus Christ.»
He assumed the
whole of
human nature, and now there
is no humanity
other than the one which Christ took on — our humanity, in which all
human beings participate, whether or not they believe in Christ, whether or not they recognize the nature of their humanity.
The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions
are, in the case of
human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there
are social levels that can
be identified with cells,
others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally
are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain,
is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a
whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle
is called the soul.
The answer, he believes,
is «that we know what «knowledge»
is partly by knowing God, and that though it
is true that we form the idea of divine knowledge by analogical extension from our experience of
human knowledge, this
is not the
whole truth, the
other side of the matter
being that we form our idea of
human knowledge by exploiting the intuition... which we have of God» (155).
Although he goes on to insist that this
is not the
whole truth, what he takes to
be the
other side of the matter
is that we form our idea of
human knowledge, not by exploiting our intuition of God as eminently knowing, but by exploiting our intuition of God — period.
Human beings have a kind of responsibility for the
whole that no
other creature has.
«In the Bible, the heart
is the core of the
human person, where all his or her different dimensions intersect: body and spirit, interiority and openness to the world and to
others, intellect, will and affectivity... Faith transforms the
whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.»
The recognition of the
other as a
human being who might
be loved must
be denied else the
whole structure of our present prejudice would
be swept away.
The fact that Jesus
is the one redeeming Mediator between heaven and earth does not override the mutual belonging, influence and intercession of
human beings upon each
other: it
is this
whole fabric of humanity that he redeems and brings back to the Father by his perfect mediation between heaven and earth.
Yet we can not remain there because (as I have urged) our specific
human identity
is largely dependent upon where we
are, with another and with
others and in genuine rapport with the
human world as a
whole.
We live in a time in which there
are many different realms of hermeneutical discourse isolated from each
other, a «conflict of interpretations» of
human expression no one of which can grasp the
human condition as a
whole.
Consider, then, the sky and earth and the
whole world as containing animals in the way in which worms
are sometimes contained in the
human intestines — worms or men, if you please, who ignore sense and feeling in
other things because they consider it irrelevant with respect to their so called knowledge of entities.
It
is the journey of primordial matter through its marvelous sequence of transformations — in the stars, in the earth, in living
beings, in
human consciousness — toward an ever more complete spiritual - physical intercommunion of the parts with each
other, with the
whole, and with that numinous presence that has
been manifested throughout this entire cosmic - earth -
human process.
According to the Christian witness, faith
is the kind of basic
human attitude or disposition that can
be formally characterized as an existential self - understanding, or understanding of our own existence, in relation to
others and to the encompassing
whole of ultimate reality.
Augustine never quite brings his view of sexual love within the range of his deepest insight as to what loving another in God means: turning the
whole current of love for self and neighbour into the channel of the love of God «which suffers no stream to
be drawn off from itself by whose diversion its own volume would
be diminished».19 To turn the
human loves into the stream of devotion to God
is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes
others inferior
is another.
We should all do ourselves a favor and help one anther stop listening to
others tell us to fight wars and kill kiil kill that
is not living life
humans are easily brain washed and talked into things that end up hurting them I have seen this happen all the time he hurt our own loved ones sometimes because someone told us its what we have to do that
is not living life do nt let someone tell you that you mean nothing because you mean a
whole lot to someone but mostly you should mean a
whole lot to yourself most of all that
is the only way that you can take how you feel about yourself and pass that amazing feeling onto
others and that
is really all you need to know about life its there to enjoy treat yourself and
others well live life live it well
One
is to domesticate it; the
other is to separate it, isolate the Word, cut it away from the
whole of
human life.
Although personally think that all
human race
are equal and no race better than the
other... but the only thing
is that the faithful believers (GOD fearing people)
are the best of the
whole human race to GOD only... Love to your brother man what you would love for your self (Sharing & Caring)... In the end my love to you all..
For if God
is to share
human nature with the
whole human race through the Incarnation, there need to
be other human beings sharing this nature by virtue of their inheritance of it through conception of a woman.
A man does not and can not exist in complete isolation from
other men, or from his present environment, or from his own past history and the more general history of the
human race of which as man he
is a part, or from the natural order to which he and his
whole race belong, or from the possible developments which
are before him and mankind in general.
The
whole course of
human history will then
be as nothing — if there
be no memory
other than
human memory, if there
be nothing to which we contribute besides
human memory.
In this phase Whitehead proceeds from the fact that, opposed to the «concrete universe,» or to the world which embraces — howsoever — both nature and the «
whole round world of
human affairs,» there stands a multiplicity of theories of the world, which reciprocally influence each
other and the world or
are coined in these relations.
And it
is traditional free will theists who have implied, and sometimes explicitly said, that the
whole universe
was created for evoking moral and spiritual virtue in free
human (and perhaps, on
other planets, humanlike) souls, so that it
is only this divine -
human drama that contains intrinsic value.