Sentences with phrase «with irrational thoughts»

This is better than letting your mind run wild with irrational thoughts that could easily be reined in.

Every moment of partial sobriety is filled with irrational thoughts and fears.

You're actually doing more to serve the cause of equal rights, as those» on the fence» have no wish to be associated with irrational thinking, hatred, and bigotry.

Belief in the paranormal and its association with irrational thinking controlled for context effects.

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I may disagree with people of faith, but now matter how irrational I may think it iis, they have a right to their opinion.

How can irrational thinking with ill - defined words and inconsistent statements lead us to any credible knowledge?

But hey, if you want to keep harping on this, feel free, I just think it makes you look a bit irrational to spend so much time arguing with someone when he hasn't commented on it one way or the other.

This is shallow, reductive thinking, and again points to a somewhat irrational preoccupation among evangelicals with sexuality as the root of all that is evil or good.

A further problem in Brunner's thought is that his doctrine is bound up with a conception of Providence in which the irrational circumstances of life, that is, our finding ourselves in this time and place and situation, are too simply identified with the inscrutable purposes of God.25 He makes too little room for the notion which is so well stated by Calhoun and which surely belongs in the Christian view of life, that the world is an unfinished world.

Though the thinking of our animistic ancestors may seem to us naïve, it remains true that a multitude of whimsical gods, so constituted that they are likely to be pleased or displeased by almost anything, is not incongruous with the welter of man's joys and miseries, befalling him, at least when superficially observed, with irrational capriciousness.

He esteemed the Qur» an and treated it with reverence, even though he thought it morally lax, confused, obscure, mendacious, irrational, and violent («their law began by the sword»), and he held that the law of Islam is not of God.

Best Series: Kurt Willems with «Nonviolence 101» «For most of my life, nonviolence seemed so irrational that I thought: This couldn't be what Jesus actually meant?

raniere has done a superb work, l find it irrational to bring up such a conclusion, firstly its just his first season and thinking he might do this well with arsenal is a lie.

Teach her to reframe irrational thoughts like, «I'm going to fail because I'm stupid,» with something more realistic like, «I can pass math class if I work hard.»

As a parent, you can't satisfy a child with ODD, since their thinking is irrational.

However, there is always the risk of danger because psychosis includes delusional thinking and irrational judgment, and this is why women with this illness must be quickly assessed, treated, and carefully monitored by a trained healthcare perinatal mental health professional.

«One thing science does tell us is that we can't understand it if we treat it as irrational [or] if we think of these people as a gathering of people with individual predispositions to violence,» says Clifford Stott, a social psychologist at the University of Liverpool.

CBT can be used to reduce the irrational thoughts and replace them with more helpful thoughts, while Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or Thought Field Therapy (TFT) can also be used.

During treatment, you'll learn how to recognize harmful or irrational thoughts and replace them with more constructive ones.

The reader will struggle to find an island of thought in the decision's sea of bilge, but there is one on the subject of people with disabilities: It is irrational and unconstitutional, Moukawsher declaimed from the bench, to continue to provide an eduction for many of them.

Having said that I'm more than a little aware that loyalty programs are designed to encourage us make irrational decisions and, with the Conrad offering a considerably larger room for less money, I'm questioning my thinking.

The work mixes very rational thought with the irrational.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In this engagement with the irrational mind, the paintings and sculpture of Surreal Universe are inspired by Freud, who compared himself to an archaeologist, digging away at layers of the psyche to reveal our deepest thoughts.

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!

AGW or not this is what the military will have to deal with because irrational thinking related to climate...

I think your statement that someone like me is religious means you endorse a false and irrational philosophical position like the following which you share with richardscourtney:

Bertrand Russell in his analysis of Rousseau in his History of Western Philosophy shows how a lot of modern western thought is shot through with this irrational line of reasoning and how it leads to all kinds of real tragedy.

It's nature's way of tricking us into doing insane and irrational things to procreate with another person — probably because if we stopped to think about the repercussions of having kids, and being with the same person forever and ever, no one would ever do it.

Are you struggling with intense confusion, chronic tension and worry, intrusive thoughts, irrational fears, and doubts about your mental health?

Therapists work with the patient to assess their thought processes, distortions and thinking errors, automatic negative thoughts and irrational perceptions which interfere with daily functioning and our lives.

I think a lot of why I've stayed over the years has to do with kids and my own irrational fear that I can't get along without her.

Cognitive - behavioral therapies focus on identifying maladaptive thoughts, understanding the assumptions behind the thoughts, and learning to correct or counter the irrational ideas that interfere with healthy functioning.

After irrational beliefs have been identified, the therapist will often work with the client in challenging the negative thoughts on the basis of evidence from the client's experience by reframing it, meaning to re-interpret it in a more realistic light.

Patients learn how to challenge their irrational thought patterns with the help of CBT.

But often, with high emotion comes a flood of irrational thinking and uncontrolled words.

I do not weave it into my job description, because to do so would be to confuse a personal psychological drive to achieve a «natural» high, dangerous as that process might be, with a rationality based job description that calls for measured thinking based upon evidentiary reality, and not upon emotion based irrational tendencies to go off in a direction designed to gratify one's personal need to win... that is the lawyer's creed... win at any cost.