They are
with other creatures as well.
Not exact matches
Can Vice's success be duplicated by
others, or is it somehow
as rare
as a mythical
creature with a horn on its head?
In Proverbs, the hard - working ant is praised
as an example of a
creature working diligently
with others toward a common purpose.
However, The difference between myself and those who profess to be God's chosen is that I don't delude myself
with the anthropocentric nonsense that humans are masters of all
other creatures on this planet (
as well
as all creation), we are merely and momentarily at the top of the food chain.
There is,
as I see it, a paradigm shift taking place in contemporary Roman Catholic theology away from the classical worldview of Thomas Aquinas and
other scholastic thinkers in which the philosophy of Aristotle plays such an important role to a more interpersonal approach to the God - world relationship in which God is thought to be constantly interacting
with creatures in the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.
I can futher give
other religious teachings that say that we are not judges (ok, Judge Judy is), but we stand
as imperfect
creatures who do not have the right to judge nor condem our fellow man (and woman) if their beliefs do not align themselves
with ours.
As Chesterton observed, «Creatures so close to each other as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.&raqu
As Chesterton observed, «
Creatures so close to each
other as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.&raqu
as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each
other happy or miserable
with which no public coercion can deal.»
Second, it needs to see human life
as profoundly interrelated
with all
other forms of life, refusing the traditional absolute separation of human beings from
other creatures as well
as of God from the world.
Not a
creature with no responsibilities and no tasks, like the
other animals, but one put on earth
as in a lovely garden, to care for it.
For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to
other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping
with the peculiar kind of
creatures we are, namely,
creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (
as well
as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
«1 Many of us who live in urban, industrial settings forget that we are members of a larger community of life, that we share
with other creatures a common evolutionary heritage, that we depend on them for our sustenance, and that the earth is their home
as well
as our own.
In
other words, an enduring
creature would be confronted willynilly
with the fact of its past redemption and compelled to accept it, to integrate it
as part of its present determinateness in the same way
as it must appropriate any
other fact in its actual world....
Accordingly, we may make the theological statement that God wants us to enjoy ourselves, to enjoy one another, to increase the enjoyment of
other people — all
other people — and of the
other creatures with whom we share this planet
as well.
It is,
as the Jewish and Christian traditions have always insisted, concerned
with «right relations,» relations
with God, neighbor and self, but now the context has broadened to include what has dropped out of the picture in the past few hundred years — the oppressed neighbors, the
other creatures and the earth that supports us all.
The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none
other, although it is important that we understand that by association
with God and His presence and work,
creatures are seen in the Christian tradition
as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just
as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.
First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the
other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7
With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80,
With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together
with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80,
with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow
creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included
as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).
isn't that Evoulation in reverse?all
other creatures on land have a thick skin (hair or wool) except humans!if God creates us he made us this way but provide us
with the brain to complete our creation so we becomae
as independent at
other species using our heads; from riding a horse to a car to aplane to maybe self propelled engines?but why did we start covering ourselves: Are we really made
with a built in shame or is it just the enviroment?
As Attenborough writes, «Insects were not only the first
creatures into the air, but to this day no
other organisms exploit the freedoms and opportunities of that world
with greater virtuosity than they do.»
Even
as God's work
as Creator is in the deeper interest of every
creature in a cosmic order that frees it to realize its own interests
as fully
as possible in solidarity
with all its fellow
creatures, so right actions toward
others and, even more so, right structures of social and cultural order are byway of realizing the same deeper interest, thereby carrying forward God's own work of creation.
We evolved
as social
creatures and the use of ethics and morality are what allowed us to cooperate
with each
other.
Thus we now recognize not only that we have the power in principle to transform these structures so that they more nearly allow for the realization of all relevant interests but also that it is in the deeper interest of all
creatures that there be a social and cultural order that frees each of them to realize its interests
as fully
as possible in solidarity
with all the
others.
In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among
other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves
as historical
creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the
other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future
with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.
Instead of seeing the natural world
as one among the social ethical concerns of human beings, it displays the human race
as one species of God's
creatures alongside
others, a species
with special prerogatives and responsibilities within creation.
Buddhism encourages the development of mental clarity
as well
as ethical interaction
with all
other creatures.
As Whitehead's metaphysical system is presently constituted, the
creature is contemporary
with no
other actual entity.
In spite of the fact that Socrates studied
with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries
as one who beyond all
other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings
as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a
creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).
He is a strange, mythical
creature who eschews home - baked bread in lieu of the store - bought ones... Apparently, this is also NOT his favourite black bread, since he doesn't like the seeds (thank goodness I ground them
as much
as I could in my magic bullet) and whatever
other reasons... Just when I was ready to chuck the freshly - baked round at his head, or eat my way through the sorrow, he finally ate it (
with some smoked ham) and thought it was terrific!
«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild
creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and
others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along
with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife,
as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.
But I think that the instinct of self - transcendence which defines mankind
as a social and spiritual
creature is for us at least very nearly
as basic
as the instinct of self - preservation which we share
with all
other forms of life.
The ultimate question,
with octopuses
as with other sentient
creatures, may be how we should treat them.
In addition, the
creatures slept only about a third
as much
as usual and entered REM sleep — the type associated
with dreaming in humans — more quickly than they did during
other times of the year.
Other algae - grazing
creatures may become more abundant
as the food web adjusts to what's available
with less ice cover.
Is language a uniquely human phenomenon, she asks, or is it the product of a genetic framework, some of which we share
with other communicating
creatures such
as apes and the African grey parrot?
By comparing 400 morphological features, such
as the shapes and numbers of teeth, in the new fossil
with those in 68
other specimens, the researchers have now placed the 73 - million - year - old
creature in the Eutherian evolutionary tree, an umbrella group that includes placental mammals.
By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human take on hedonism
with tidbits
as varied
as the power of our orgasms (hint: no
other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our ancestors.
He quickly classified it along
with other Amazonian myths: the activities of the boto dolphin, blamed for all unwanted pregnancies because it assumes the form of a handsome man, penetrates village parties, and lures young women into the floral night; or the transformation of the curupira, a protean
creature that appears
as an animal or a hairy, ugly man and plagues hunters.
Even the deepest parts of the ocean —
with pressures up to 1000 times that at the surface — are buzzing
with shrimp - like
creatures called amphipods,
as well
as sea cucumbers, nematodes and
other worms, and bacteria.
I don't imagine they think of us
as being that much different from baboons or the
other creatures that they share the forest
with, although none of the
other creatures they share the forest
with follow them around.
As a natural history photographer who specializes in photographing insects and other small creatures, I sometimes wonder why everyone isn't as obsessed with the little things in life as I a
As a natural history photographer who specializes in photographing insects and
other small
creatures, I sometimes wonder why everyone isn't
as obsessed with the little things in life as I a
as obsessed
with the little things in life
as I a
as I am.
Apart from the shear volume of choice online dating offers singles, convenience is
other excellent selling point
as anyone dating online can do so
with the
creature comforts of home.
This
creature ends up actually being a little person, a 14 year old girl named Arriety (Bridgit Mendler) who lives
with her two parents (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler) who are borrowers who are small people who «Borrow things such
as soap, cookies, and
other small things that humans don't need when they disappear.
The interwoven cinematic
creature universe is supposed to kick - off
with The Mummy reboot but could we see Evans
as Dracula (centuries later) teaming up or fighting
other classic monsters in a future film?
A filmography filled
with mermaids and
other fantastical
creatures can now add a new animal to its menagerie,
as Guillermo del Toro has won the Golden Lion for «The Shape of Water.»
Coming up
with devices such
as a happy memory - displaying machine, he's shunned by the
other elves — but when Saint Nick is kidnapped by Neville Baddington (Curry), head of a rival delivery service, and the task of Saving Santa falls to Bernard, he proves that even the smallest
creature can make a difference.
What: Guillermo del Toro has introduced the world to haunted houses and kaiji - fighting robots, Hellboy and
other fantastical realms of reality, and his new project is just
as magical: a
creature feature of yesteryear, about a mute woman (Hawkins) who falls in love
with a hardboiled egg - eating sea
creature held in a secret government laboratory.
It makes sense,
as Warner Bros. and Legendary are building towards a Kong vs. Godzilla movie that will build off of Skull Island and the foundation Gareth Edwards set
with Godzilla, and one imagines there will be a mighty big Monarch connection to whatever
other creatures are found on Skull Island.
As for their
other creature creations, Johnny Depp is reportedly set to take on the role of The Invisible Man
with Angeline Jolie courted for the role of Frankenstein's Bride.
Gulven strips and hugs Lena in a scene that amusingly addresses the lengths siblings will go to in order to express their comfort
with each
other's sex and sense of boundaries, and in Lena and her sister Frédérique's (Marina Foïs) irrational contempt for Gulven's kooky girlfriend we understand the sisters not so much
as petty, hypocritical women, but
as sad
creatures incapable of allowing themselves the simple pleasures of life.
Mostly, this is left up to Michael Fassbender to argue about
with himself
as he embodies two different artificial
creatures, one that is more independent than the
other.
Maleficent stands
as the guardian
with some of the
other creatures and they strike down the King's army.