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“When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and others; (2) in response to the rise of heretical movements such as the Gnostics; (3) in regard to the social context of the Lord’s Supper, namely, the agape, or thanksgiving, meal, due to the rise to prominence of asceticism in the church; and (4) because the increasingly Gentile majority in the church was to change how second-century Christian thinkers would reflect on the meal. Thus, issues of power and purity and even ethnicity were to change the views of the Lord’s Supper and the way it would be practiced.”
Source: Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper
“When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?”
“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information”
Source: How We Know What Isn't So
“When examining the history of any human network, it is therefore advisable to stop from time to time and look at things from the perspective of some real entity. How do you know if an entity is real? Very simple – just ask yourself, ‘Can it suffer?’ When people burn down the temple of Zeus, Zeus doesn’t suffer. When the euro loses its value, the euro doesn’t suffer. When a bank goes bankrupt, the bank doesn’t suffer. When a country suffers a defeat in war, the country doesn’t really suffer. It’s just a metaphor. In contrast, when a soldier is wounded in battle, he really does suffer. When a famished peasant has nothing to eat, she suffers. When a cow is separated from her newborn calf, she suffers. This is reality.
Of course suffering might well be caused by our belief in fictions. For example, belief in national and religious myths might cause the outbreak of war, in which millions lose their homes, their limbs and even their lives. The cause of war is fictional, but the suffering is 100 per cent real. This is exactly why we should strive to distinguish fiction from reality.
Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can’t play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can’t enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But the stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality. Then we begin entire wars ‘to make a lot of money for the corporation’ or ‘to protect the national interest’. Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; how come we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in their service?”
Source: Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari & How We Got to Now Six Innovations that Made the Modern World By Steven Johnson 2 Books Collection Set
“When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.”
“When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.”
“When exchanges are running out of Bitcoins to sell to order book buyers and some of you people still think it will retrace 70-80%.”
“When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.”
“When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.”
“When exhaling this air, we announced Jesus Christ risen by the same Spirit. No one can live without breathing. It is the same for the Christian: without praise and mission there is not Christian life. And with praise, worship. We rarely speak about worship. What do we do when we pray? We ask things of God, we give thanks. But worshipping and adoring God is part of breathing - praise and worship.”
“When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.”
“When exhilarating joy becomes soothing stillness, it can turn into inspiriting happiness after splintering the brilliance of its buoyancy and filling each pore of our being with bliss, freeing all the caged wishes of our dreams. ("New York at arm's length of desire")”
“When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations—in the depths—it's noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“When existence trembles between fear and freedom, risk is not a choice - it is the only path left to life.”
Source: Shakti: The Eternal Flame
“When expectation becomes your believe the the depth of being heart is pretty more than just a disappointment.. :(”
“When expectation ends suddenly the person becomes blunt and truthful with everyone as there is no fear of anyone leaving them. When I started this experiment instead of people leaving from life, I had better and honest conversations with people which was not possible earlier.”
Source: Rituals of Happy Soul: A Self-Help Guide to Unlock Your Inner Power and Transform Your Life.
“When expectations are shattered, practice allowing that to be the way it is. Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer…judge less and listen more. Take time to open your mind to the fascinating mystery and uncertainty that we all experience.”
Source: Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life
“When expected to do everything, respect to those who do something, rather than nothing.”
“When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience”
“When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.”
Source: God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
“When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.”
“When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional step that occurs in this process, in the case of DID, is the formation of distinct ego states that carry the experience.”
Source: The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
“When experts say nuclear power generation is safe and doesn't cost much and this is the only way to go if we want to stop relying on coal, well, we believe them. But they've been lying to us for years. And the point is, we've never really known anything about nuclear power generation. We had little interest in it before 3/11, and we certainly had no idea how difficult it is to control nuclear energy.”
“When exploring in this magical quantum world that is both wrong and right at the same time, is filled with near limitless possibilities, a place where character is more important than rules, she reminded me to “hold the center.” I understand this as no matter how quantum, how paradoxical, or how strange things become, I can always find my way home by returning to the center, that place of sincere love.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“When exploring, read the warning signs: figuratively and literally.”
“When expressing sympathy for the family of a deceased person is also categorised as hate speech, there is clearly something wrong with the arbitrary censorship by multimedia giants such as Facebook, It is therefore urgent that national legislation puts a stop to the silencing of right-wing and nationalist politicians. Because when you can be removed from Facebook simply for expressing sympathy for someone, this has nothing to do with ‘hate speech’ or ‘protecting democracy’ anymore, but everything with pure dictatorial arbitrariness.”
“When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country ... this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.”
“When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Reader
“When eye contacts made and both the person feels amazing, trust me that emotion will be repeated long life.”
“When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze.”
“When face scans replace physical passports, global mobility essentially becomes a digital identity record with a set of inequalities programmed in, fed by a sophisticated and dangerous surveillance infrastructure. We run the risk of having technological innovation without the necessary rights and protections. A century after the invention of passports, and with all the tech we have available today, a fundamental update is long overdue. The opportunity for passport innovation isn’t in the hardware, it’s in the software—the ideas driving how we manage global movement.”
Source: Global Natives: The New Frontiers of Work, Travel, and Innovation
“When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray.”
“When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.”
“When faced by an international conflict, forget diplomacy, forget statecraft, forget strategies and policies and ask yourself, what would a human do in this situation, not a politician, not a bureaucrat, not a law enforcement official, but a human?”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“When faced by an international conflict, forget diplomacy, forget statecraft, forget strategies and policies and ask yourself, what would a human do in this situation, not a politician, not a bureaucrat, not a law enforcement official, but a human? The tree of diplomacy only grows thorns of war, not fruits of peace.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.”
Source: Aleph
“When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.”
Source: The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play and Much More
“When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence”
“When faced with a choice on what side to stand on, choose the side of kindness.”
“When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.”
“When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.”
Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions
“When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray!”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.”
Source: Warrior of the Light -
“When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!”
Source: The Be Happy Attitudes
“When faced with a problem, some people find answers and some people find excuses.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When faced with a raging storm, his devotion is directed towards his God. He is a prayerful man who knows how to wait on the Lord. He stands unwavering at all, He is anchored by hope. Many look at him and marvel at his resolve. Consistency is a compass that points him to the true north. Through life's thunderstorms and joys, he continues to journey forth. His knees may bend, but his spirit stands tall. His approach to life is the rhythm that sustains him through it all, as prayer enables him to hear Heaven's call.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.”