Sentences with phrase «with actual human beings»

The flipside is that interacting with actual human beings is the most satisfying part of this kind of work, and no promotional photo - op or stripped - down escape room concept is going to match that kind of experience.
A life of shallow relationships, because they have better relationships with their mobile devices than they do with actual human beings.
Some visitors are shocked to discover they are «conversing» with an actual human being in cyberspace.
You can call Haven Exchange and speak with an actual human being between 9 am and 5 pm PST Monday through Friday.
It seems only natural that we'd prefer to deal with an actual human being.

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Respond in the comments to users with genuine greetings and questions, as it proves that there is an actual human running the account.
Enter the consumerization of IT, and B2B technology marketers are more than ever faced with the fact that, at the end of the day, they're still talking and selling to actual human beings.
Machine learning refers to a process where computers are given access to mountains of data, along with a set of analysis criteria (created by an actual human being).
In a world growing crowded with so - called robo - advisors, Hearsay Social is helping actual human advisors stay relevant.
When you talk about an actual research project, often it starts as something more technologically oriented, but as you build deeper partnerships, you find that some of the problems they're really struggling with are human problems.
Even with 100 people — actual human players — combat is sparse.
Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.
7) This god is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin of Adam and Eve.
The actual problem that many folks have is being told that a collection of books written by human beings with an agenda is the absolute only possible truth in the universe.
In any event, the actual answer to your query will be lost on you, but apes and humans had a common ancestor that was indeed more like modern apes in many ways (especially with respect to cognitive development), but identical to no modern species.
That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).
The question is neither «religious» nor «open»; it is a secular question having to do with the social, complex, ambiguous quality of actual human lives.
I personally don't think Steve was «fair» with all of the biblical accounts of violence, since he often cuts off quotations in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God, it's hard to quibble over minor details like that.
We are human beings, and we relate to one another better when we stop expecting the other person to behave in a prescribed, programmed way but instead talk openly with one another about our actual desires, preferences, hopes, and expectations.
«With all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God» this doesn't make any sense really.
It is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic of defeat at the hands of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it is in terms of the gradual and ambiguous growth of actual human development.
It may be argued that if human occasions of experience prehend God, and they do, they must prehend him as a contemporary, since God as actual entity is contemporary with all other occasions.
They fail to capture what a church actually is: real live actual humans, showing up day after day, year after year, building something durable and lovely over time, together, with prayer and forgiveness and love.»
To be an actual working solution that respects everyone's human and civil rights would require strict protocols with effective oversight — things that are currently impossible in today's world.
This is the trouble with traditional religious doctrines: they are burdened with ideas which have lost their reference to actual human experience.
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.
In regard to Whitehead's introduction of God and eternal objects to explain human freedom he says: «If explanatory principles are available which could account for the sensation of freedom without at the same time taking us beyond the bounds of the actual world, we should explore them, and, if they prove to be consistent with the facts, adopt them in preference» (ISP 246).
After all, in the Holocaust they were killing actual human beings, people who were undeniably, not just potentially or marginally, real people with real rights.
There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....
(2) Human existence is an unfulfilled existence, with potentialities that may be realized or made actual; in Christian language, «God has made us toward himself.»
In my view, only individuals are actual, and for our purposes that means that the final real entities with which we are dealing are momentary embodiments of human existence.
We need to understand how knowledge can go right or wrong in the actual lives of men, beginning with our estimation of what it means to be human.
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.
It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.
This is the sort of experience Whitehead is referring to when he writes: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have, with Locke, tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 112).
Unlike much of the inherited Western tradition, which has equated creativity with mentality and attributed it only to human beings, process thought considers anything actual at all an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings; some degree of mentality is present in no matter how rudimentary, even negligible, a form.
Therefore if kerygma means merely a message about God, and not the actual uncovered presence of God operating in human life, it is a fatal confusion and misunderstanding to identify the revelation merely with the kerygma.
Sure, if you can compare physical limitations between two people who desperately want to communicate with each other, to a supreme being who, for what ever reason (completely unknown to everyone), has decided to never communicate with the human who desperately wants some actual communication.
I was thrilled when I received a call for an interview with Human Resources and doubly thrilled to get called for a second interview with the actual department heads.
He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.
Thus far our discussion of some of the traditional religious ideas in the light of an analysis of religion in terms of actual human experience has not been concerned exclusively with any one religious or sectarian movement.
In many passages there is indeed a human being, with its own experience of self, implicitly behind the concept of an «actual entity» as Whitehead himself explains it, (PR 112) 7 and we are of the opinion that impartial readers frequently apply this tacit concept to themselves as paradigms.
Because Whitehead conceives the human psyche not to be a single actuality, but a temporally - ordered society of occasions of experience, and further believes all actual entities to be occasions of experience, he is able to use «the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediate present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions... to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature» (AI 284).
I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.
However, as is the case with anything actual at all, there is an active, creative side to the human mind as well.
This is the best scientific and moral line to draw — balancing protection of actual human life with maximizing a woman's family planning options and giving her some room to terminate unwanted pregnancies.
But there is another dimension of the social sciences in modernity: their engagement with the details of life, the actual contours of human existence over time.
But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.
I suppose one must commend a man who had no access to any actual scientific information for trying to gauge the age of the earth, but at the same time it's rather foolish for modern humans to cling to a number created with no basis in reality.
But as a reasonable and caring person I can honestly tell you that these poor fanatics and their embarrassingly idiotic claims are, to me no different than any human being who has one shred of actual faith in the bible or any supernatural «relationship» with creator theology.
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