Sentences with phrase «with reward and punishment»

Now it's used as if it described some B.F. Skinner, modifying behaviour with reward and punishment, depending on the need of the moment.

the sinless creatures of Allah who perform His orders; to believe in Allah's books, the Old and New Testaments and the Qur» an; to believe in all the prophets of Allah; to believe in the Day of Judgment with rewards and punishments; to believe that destiny belongs to Allah, recognizing that although every creature's destiny is in Allah's power, each one must use his reason and accept responsibility for his conduct.

It became ethically significant, with rewards and punishments administered to its inhabitants.

They include the naming of angels (Michael, Raphael and so on); a personal Devil (which Satan later became) with accompanying demons; a Book of Life which records the deeds of people during their lifetime; a coming cosmic conflict in which the forces of evil will be finally overthrown; the separation of the soul from the body at death; a general resurrection and a universal judgement; and an afterlife with rewards and punishments.

Fourth, the implication that computers will «want» to do something (like convert the world into paperclips) means AI has emotions, but as science writer Michael Chorost notes, «the minute an A.I. wants anything, it will live in a universe with rewards and punishments — including punishments from us for behaving badly.»

China is implementing a Big Brother - style system that scores citizens based on their behaviour, with rewards and punishments meted out accordingly.

Not exact matches

Advertising models have evolved, and social networks have evolved with them — incorporating perceived social «rewards» and «punishments» for users.

Back in the benighted days when we trained our dogs with punishments more than with rewards, crates and «crate - training» were unheard of.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Why would you trust an alleged deity whose moral framework is bookended with threats of punishment and promises of rewards?

@Maani: «I do take issue with your comment that «Religion gets people to be good in the same way stories about Santa Claus gets kids to be good, with baseless promises of rewards and punishments.»

They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can — as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable afterlife.

I do take issue with your comment that «Religion gets people to be good in the same way stories about Santa Claus gets kids to be good, with baseless promises of rewards and punishments.»

I could give you other examples, but I think these are enough to demonstrate that in practice Christianity encourages good behavior with promises of rewards and discourages bad behavior with threats of punishments, whether you're willing to admit it or not.

Religion gets people to be good in the same way stories about Santa Claus gets kids to be good, with baseless promises of rewards and punishments.

Primarily they do this with promises of rewards for good behavior and punishments for bad behavior.

For if that were so, His commandments, the missions of the apostles, the scriptures, and the promise of reward and punishment would all be null and void, impossible to reconcile with the Almighty's Wisdom and Justice.

It might have been possible to affirm moral righteousness along with Hellenistic absoluteness; after all, it is not beyond our imagining that a kind of moral tyranny, with a calculus of rewards and punishments, could be ascribed to an entirely absolute being.

Certainly much of the revivalism associated with the American frontier urged people to consider the rewards and punishments that were promised after death.

It is the decisive event in which God's judgment on the whole of history is rendered with the corresponding outcome, customarily described as reward and punishment.

More recently, beginning with Schleiermacher, there has been a lessening of emphasis on rewards and punishments after death.

It «s a form of self made religion with its own system of reward and punishment, checks and balances but it is not Jesus, the way the truth and the life.

Much of the time it has talked also of a divine judge, whose major concern is with the conduct of those who live in the world, determining their guilt and assigning sentences, either of punishment in hell or reward in heaven, sentences against which his creatures have no appeal.

And with this has gone also the old idea that what might be called «the rewards and punishment syndrome» demands that there should be a post-mortem existence for these rewards and punishments to take plaAnd with this has gone also the old idea that what might be called «the rewards and punishment syndrome» demands that there should be a post-mortem existence for these rewards and punishments to take plaand punishment syndrome» demands that there should be a post-mortem existence for these rewards and punishments to take plaand punishments to take place.

Without freedom of the will and personal responsibility, retribution, punishment and reward, and the Future Life with its.

I find I am continually being drawn towards a faith that is less about rewards and punishment (read: heaven and hell) and more about developing a relationship with God here and now.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Apocalyptic speculation with future punishments for the wicked and rewards for the virtuous played no part in Jesus» teaching.

That there is no good without someone standing over you, threatening you with the greatest punishment possible if you do bad, and the greatest reward possible, if you do good?

When asked what she intended, she said, «I want to burn up heaven and put out the fires of hell so that persons will love God for God's goodness alone, with no fear of punishment or hope of reward!»

If you are of the «lucky» sort where these existential rewards and punishments coincide with emotional states, you might simultaneously feel guilty and proud, though it's important to note that these emotions are not necessary for you to recognize the existential reward and punishment for what they are.

«It seemed eminently natural, accordingly, to the ancient Hebrew,» writes Professor Paton, «that Yahweh should deal with the group rather than the individual, and should bring the punishment of the sinner, or the reward of the righteous, upon his family, his clan, or his nation, rather than upon himself.»

For that matter, if I make the claim that there will be infinite reward for everyone who gives me ten percent of their income for the rest of their lives and infinite punishment for anyone who does not, my claim has equal standing with either of those religions under Pascale's Wager and you'd better start paying up if you want to hedge your bets.

A man manifestly intelligent and devout, but with a knack for making providence sound like karma, argued that all are guilty through original sin but some more than others, that our «sense of justice» requires us to believe that «punishments and rewards [are] distributed according to our just desserts,» that God is the «balancer of accounts,» and that we must suppose that the suffering of these innocents will bear «spiritual fruit for themselves and for all mankind.»

It accentuated individual salvation out of the world, personal moral life congruent with the ideals of the saved, and fulfillment or its absence in the rewards or punishments in another world in a life to come.

Josephus tells us that the Sadducees held that «souls die with the bodies», 21 and they denied all other - worldly punishments and rewards.22 They also rejected the developing doctrine of angels and the increasing prominence given to a supernatural world.

R.C. Zaehner claimed that «from the moment that the Jews made contact with the Iranians they took over the typical Zoroastrian doctrine of an individual afterlife in which rewards are to be enjoyed and punishments endured... the idea of a bodily resurrection at the end of time was probably original to Zoroastrianism».5 Cohn also concluded that the similarities between Zoroastrianism and the ideas found in the Jewish Apocalypses were too remarkable to be explained by coincidence.6

But his rationale ends with an economically worded warning whose implications are exceedingly far - reaching and implicitly add a very strong rider to any conclusion that might be drawn from his doctrinal expose, such as that indulgences should be widely granted and the people strongly encouraged to use them: `... yet other works of satisfaction are more meritorious with respect to our essential reward, which is infinitely better than the remission of temporal punishment».

The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Encourage them to check - in with you several times per week and provide rewards (encouragement) or punishment (extra running, doing their laundry for the week, pay them money) if you don't accomplish your goals.

In social - science class that day, however, they were learning complex material and behaving perfectly well — and not because they were incentivized with rewards or threatened with punishments, but because school was, for that period at least, actually kind of interesting.

Deci and Ryan came up with the beginnings of their theory in the 1970s, during a moment in the history of psychology when the field was mostly dominated by behaviorists, who believed that people's actions were governed solely by their motivation to fulfill basic biological needs and thus were highly responsive to straightforward rewards and punishments.

If you're being the coach and encouraging your child along the way, rather than the judge with the reward or punishment at the other end, your child will definitely gain a sense of being capable and develop higher self esteem from the inside (as opposed to hanging their self esteem on external approvals).

When reading is associated with systems of reward and punishment, it isn't a positive experience.

So many parents struggle with the issue of how to motivate their teenagers and they go to punishments and rewards to try and make it work with not much success.

Rewards and punishment don't usually stop the hitting, because they don't help kids with the underlying feelings, or teach them a better way to solve the problem that caused the hitting.

And those are not things that you can do with simple material rewards and simple punishmenAnd those are not things that you can do with simple material rewards and simple punishmenand simple punishments.

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These include providing more frequent and immediate feedback (including rewards and punishment), setting up more structure in advance of potential problem situations, and providing greater supervision and encouragement to children with ADHD in relatively unrewarding or tedious situations.

Even when parents choose non-violent means to control their children such as isolation (i.e. time - outs) and behavior charts and other punishment / reward tactics, the basic truth is that they are modelling manipulation and coercion and are focused on controlling a child's behavior externally rather than working with them to help them learn to control their own behavior through an internal guidance system.