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.
Not exact matches
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.