Yeah, «faith» must be concerned
with imaginary beings and places, which can't be proven, for it to be called real «faith».
It has nothing to do
with an imaginary being in the sky.
To have a woman decide that she rather have a «personal relationship»
with an imaginary being rather than the old line of the Catholic church is like a child saying that they like the Tooth Fairy better than Santa Claus.
Not exact matches
Basically, the state
is agreeing
with the contention of sites like DraftKings and FanDuel that their users employ skill when creating
imaginary teams consisting of real professional athletes while wagering on the strength of those athletes» individual performances.
In some cases, the top of the proverbial food chain at the tropical sweat shop where some companies quarter their customer service reps
is an often
imaginary supervisor who apparently doesn't do anything except spend all of his or her in meetings
with God knows who, discussing God knows what.
Because of this, we've learned to love the solitude and to come up
with ways to fill the silence, whether that
be having
imaginary friends, turning to writing or art, or another outlet for expression.
Are we going to have to have a cultural moment, where we
're coming to grips
with what it means to interface
with imaginary worlds layered on top of reality?
Finance Friday's gets off the ground
with today's post by introducing you to an
imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we'll
being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders» equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.
The whole aim of practical politics
is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to
be led to safety) by menacing it
with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary.
An alternative to the conventional method of establishing price targets
with this type of triangle
is to use the BUY LINE to form an
imaginary parallel sell line.
«It
was during an initial conversation over lunch that the idea for
Imaginary started to come together: let's build a fund focused on early - stage businesses obsessed
with the consumer, and help create the global retail brands and platforms of the future.»
As a general rule, day traders should
be proficient at paper trading (e.g. trading
with imaginary capital) before committing real capital, as well as have a sufficient level of risk capital that they can afford to lose before trading.
«It
is a privilege to
be able to return the favor
with Imaginary and the transferable skill set I've developed throughout my career.»
Creating a demo account
is a matter of 15 seconds, then you can start trading
with $ 10 000
imaginary chips right away.
Once you do that you
are free to choose your desired coins and start trading
with your
imaginary funds.
But you
are in love
with your belief in God, and when a man loves even an
imaginary person, like the Percy Sledge song says, he
An education
is a useful thing... Christmas has nothing to do
with your
imaginary friends illegitimate child... read on and open your closed mind: (http://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html)» Early Christians had a soft spot for pagans
However, I will not put stock into some
imaginary thing that «knows all» and will reveal what IT wants when IT wants and
be heppy
with that.
The Cold War
is Over by Peter Hitchens To Russia,
With Love My Soviet Years The Comforting,
Imaginary Menace
There
are no facts when dealing
with imaginary subjects.
Does it hurt to reconcile the absence of evidence for your
imaginary friend
with your belief in it, or
are you simply incapable of rational thought?
junior, instead of boasting about childish notions like belief in
imaginary beings, secular charities get on
with their business.
I
'm here to laugh and point at adults
with imaginary friends.
What a woman does
with her body
is between her and her Doctor, not her and an
imaginary, vidictive - murderer - rapist - child abusing god.
Religious people may believe people
are «better»
with god, but as the statistics clearly demonstrate, that belief
is as unsupportable as their belief in their
imaginary gods.
Honestly, we can't afford to have a guy in office that will
be too busy talking to his
imaginary friend to focus on the issues involved
with presidency.
I agree
with L.Nielsen
's sentiment that you
are «almost there» — close to realising that this
is the only life you have and that all your effort should
be directed at living it well for it
's own sake, close to realising that you
are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you
are a good human
being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears
are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an
imaginary creator.
I guess I
'm more concerned
with dealing
with the situation at hand than begging an
imaginary friend for help.
Faith
is an
imaginary friend based on a book
with multiple versions and numerous contradictions.
religion
is just a psychological coping mechanism we evolved
with, like an «
imaginary friend» that children have, but for adults.
It often seems as the «share» the details of this relationship that Jesus
is more like a child's
imaginary friend who
is always on their side when any conflict occurs
with others rather than the Jesus who loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.
«to the ones do not believe in god when you in tragic situation who do you call on, 911 happen when a republican took whitehouse so you idiots a tragic have not happen yet so prayer does work and you
with all the hate and jealousy you will reap what you sow» ok, if this
is a serious post then my answer
is... in a tragic situation I certainly do nt turn to an
imaginary being in the sky because that would
be pointless.
But they
are more interested in telling others what to do, rather than dealing
with their own failure to follow their
imaginary sky daddy.
Why an Atheist would devote so much time fighting this
imaginary god makes me feel that this Atheist has a personal connection
with this
imaginary god, and that he
is sore because this
imaginary god did not bail him out when he asked for help.
Christians attempt to act out the wrath of their
imaginary sky - tyrant, since, when
being honest
with themselves, they realise the gods
are powerless.
I think you have fear in us mixed up
with the fear you live... the «believe in this
imaginary god or else go to the
imaginary place called hell»... that
is the true definition of fear.
Imagine these sentences: Sabio, it seems your problem
is more
with Muslims, than
with Allah... more
with Greeks than
with Zeus... more
with Hindus than
with Kali... more
with Mormons than
with Moroni... more
with Shintoists than Amaterasu Since I don't believe in any of those
imaginary entities, so none of these sentence make sense.
A relationship
with god
is like having an
imaginary wife.
There
is some sort of
imaginary line that
is drawn, and everybody on one side of the line
is «good
with God,» and everybody on the other side needs to «get right
with God.»
The author of seven novels, beginning in 1977
with Staggerford (the
imaginary Minnesota town where most of his stories unfold), Hassler
is a writer - in - residence and English teacher at St. John's University, Minnesota.
The porous self stems from the social
imaginary of an enchanted world; its primary trait
is an openness toward the world as a causal matrix filled
with other humans, spirits, demons, and cosmic forces that produce meaning.
There
is no god and prayers
are merely delusional internal dialogues
with your
imaginary god as you imagine him / her / it to
be and not to a supernatural creature that
is real.
The goal
with race, we've
been taught,
is to «not see color,» to treat everyone exactly the same, to avoid the topic altogether like it
's the
imaginary lava in a children
's game.
Alcoholism deals
with something that
is real, not
imaginary.
With its Marxist sheen dulled, much of this debate has ceased to
be about class divisions (although it retains that edge in certain thinkers) and more so about mentalités — mindsets or common outlooks — that comprise the beliefs inhabiting the social
imaginary.
I
'm rather certain that we
're not as concerned
with your
imaginary friend as you'd like to think we
are.
We
're more concerned
with the followers of your
imaginary friend and the way they use their belief to justify harm to others.
Indeed it
is hard not to mock de Botton's own thesis, or indeed the numerous photographs which illustrate it, such as one of an
imaginary «Department for Relationships» or of a «Psychotherapeutic Travel Agency [which] would align mental disorders
with the parts of the planet best able
You'd
be angry too if every time you turned around some Christian, religious zealot
was shoving a cartoon book [i.e. Bible] down your throat along
with all the other mysticism,
imaginary friends, etc. that you have to deal
with on a daily basis.
«The book seems to
be merely a prosy detail of
imaginary history,
with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament.