FASTING THERAPY AS SELF-CONTROL

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Sholehati Rofi'ah Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Food And Drink

Fasting is familiar for Muslims around the world. One of the compulsory worship for Muslims is fasting during  Ramadhan. Fasting is refraining from something that breaks fasting with a specific intention—fasting from dawn to sunset. Fasting not only suppresses appetite for food and drink but also restrains desire during the day. Fasting can also be said to be self-controlling from things that are detrimental or negative. We know that the current era of globalization has dramatically changed the pattern of people's lives. Good in terms of dress, talk, and food. Therefore this paper discusses fasting therapy as self-control. Various studies explained that fasting and getting the reward of fasting could also control emotions, avoid various diseases, and elevate human beings for the better. A person who does fasting will sincerely get a reward, the remission of sins, both sins in the past and sins that will come.

Preserving the world for Christ

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThe practices, habits and convictions that once allowed the inhabitants of Christendom to determine what they could reasonably do and say together to foster a just and equitable common life have slowly been displaced over the past few centuries by new configurations which have sought to maintain an inherited faith in an underlying purpose to human life while disassociating themselves from the God who had been the beginning and end of that faith. In the end, however, these new configurations are incapable of sustained deliberations about the basic conditions of our humanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology provides important clues into what it takes to make and keep human life human in such a world. The first part of this essay examines Bonhoeffer's conception of the last things, the things before the last, and what binds them together. He argues that the things before the last do not possess a separate, autonomous existence, and that the positing of such a breach has had disastrous effects on human beings and the world they inhabit. The second part looks at Bonhoeffer's account of the divine mandates as the conceptual basis for coping with a world that has taken leave of God. Though this account of the mandates has much to commend it, it is hindered by problematic habits of interpretation that leave it vacillating between incommensurable positions. Bonhoeffer's incomplete insights are thus subsumed within Augustine's understanding of the two orders of human society set forth in City of God.

scholarly journals Membaca Semangat Hermeneutika Hanafi

MELINTAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Masmuni Mahatma
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Dynamic

Alquran cannot be detached from the chain of history accompanying it. Alquran has always been associated with sacred values it contains. That is it’s <em>fitrah</em>. Hasan Hanafi, born in Cairo, develops a unique hermeneutics to view Alquran as revelation. In safeguarding the originality of the Scripture as much as possible, the potential of reason and thought cannot be avoided as well. For the Scripture is an ideal ‘mirror’ of the expressions of the reality in life together with all the social dynamic continuously approaching the believers. Without the involvement of reason and thought the Scripture might not be so much different from an ‘inscription’, which is passive, cold, and barely engendering things characterised as dialogical and productive. Viewed in its process of descent to human beings, the scriptural revelation is not something suddenly flying and drifting without reason. The revelation is closely related with the reality (of the past) tied up together by Allah. Each verse or set of verses in the Scripture has mirrored solution to particular problem in the banality of individual and communal life. The Scripture is not simply a ‘text’, for it is always breathing ‘context’. By having context, the Scripture cannot be uncoupled from the social reality of the believers who put their trust in it. The Scripture is a text merging with context, which in turn illuminates the believers all around the world.<br /><br />

scholarly journals HUMAN IMPACTS ON LANDSCAPES: LESSONS OF CITIES FROM THE PAST

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
ERIC FOUACHE ◽  
STÉPHANE DESRUELLES
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

The first cities emerged in the Middle East at the end of the 4th millennium BC. Studies in the field of archaeology, geomorphology, geoscience and history allow us to understand which types of hazards were affecting the cities, and how they had an impact on landscapes in the past, in the Middle East, but also in other parts of the world. There is much to be gained: these studies are fundamental to a better understanding of present-day hazards, to urban development, but also to remembering our heritage. Cities have always been susceptible to nature’s risks and natural disasters but have also – through urban development and through the proximity of great numbers of human beings –, generated their own specific hazards.

scholarly journals The Soundtrack of Revolution Memory, Affect, and the Power of Protest Songs

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiina Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
The Past ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Protest Songs ◽  
The World ◽  
Musical Memory

All cultural representations in the form of songs, pictures, literature, theater, film, television shows, and other media are deeply emotional and ideological, often difficult to define or analyze. Emotions are embedded as a cultural and social soundtrack of memories and minds, whether we like it or not. Feminist scholarship has emphasized over the past decade that affects and emotions are a foundation of human interaction. The cognitive understanding of the world has been replaced by a critical analysis in which questions about emotions and how we relate to the world as human beings is central (Ahmed 2004: 5-12). It is in this memory-related instance that this article discusses the unexpected reappearance of a long forgotten song, Hasta siempre, as a part of my personal musical memory. It is a personal reflection on the complex interaction between memory, affect and the genre of protest songs as experiences in life and music. What does it mean when a melody intrudes in the middle of unrelated thoughts, when one’s mind is occupied with rational and purposive considerations? These memories are no coincidences, I argue, they are our forgotten selves singing to us.

scholarly journals Global epidemiology of Equine Influenza viruses; “A possible emerging zoonotic threat in future” an extensive systematic review with evidence

2023 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Khan ◽  
M. H. Mushtaq ◽  
J. Muhammad ◽  
B. Ahmed ◽  
E. A. Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Species ◽  
Influenza Viruses ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Equine Influenza Virus ◽  
Equine Influenza ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Epidemiology ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract There are different opinions around the World regarding the zoonotic capability of H3N8 equine influenza viruses. In this report, we have tried to summarize the findings of different research and review articles from Chinese, English, and Mongolian Scientific Literature reporting the evidence for equine influenza virus infections in human beings. Different search engines i.e. CNKI, PubMed, ProQuest, Chongqing Database, Mongol Med, and Web of Knowledge yielded 926 articles, of which 32 articles met the inclusion criteria for this review. Analyzing the epidemiological and Phylogenetic data from these articles, we found a considerable experimental and observational evidence of H3N8 equine influenza viruses infecting human being in different parts of the World in the past. Recently published articles from Pakistan and China have highlighted the emerging threat and capability of equine influenza viruses for an epidemic in human beings in future. In this review article we have summarized the salient scientific reports published on the epidemiology of equine influenza viruses and their zoonotic aspect. Additionally, several recent developments in the start of 21st century, including the transmission and establishment of equine influenza viruses in different animal species i.e. camels and dogs, and presumed encephalopathy associated to influenza viruses in horses, have documented the unpredictable nature of equine influenza viruses. In sum up, several reports has highlighted the unpredictable nature of H3N8 EIVs highlighting the need of continuous surveillance for H3N8 in equines and humans in contact with them for novel and threatening mutations.

The Geopolitics of the Personal

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-198
Author(s):  
Cairns Craig
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Territorial Rights

Christian existentialist philosophers, such as Gabriel Marcel, argued for a conception of the human individual not as an isolated subjectivity, as in Descartes’ cogito, but as born into and shaped by its relationships with others. ‘Being’ is necessarily ‘being with’. Spark’s plots dramatise, in characters such as Jean Brodie, the dangers of an isolating subjectivity that seeks to make the world conform to its own wishes in order to deny the fact they have been ‘thrown’ into a world they did not choose. In defiance of Sartre’s emphasis on the ability of human beings to choose their own future, Spark’s novels emphasise the historical and geographic ‘thrownness’ of her characters, their accidental arrival in situations they did not choose. These may be the geographical flashpoints of modern history, such as the Palestine of The Mandelbaum Gate, or the temporal eruption of the past into the present, as in Territorial Rights. It is this fundamental lack of control that leads Spark to insist that ridicule must be central to contemporary art, since ridicule not only challenges religious, political and ideological efforts to control events but challenges the presumptions of art itself when it seeks to shape the world.

Ozymandias, King of Kings: Postprocessual Radical Archaeology as Critique

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Objective Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Objective World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

InRe-Constructing Archaeology(1987a) andSocial TheoryandArchaeology(1987b), Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley argue for an antiscience radical archaeology as critique. They use deconstructionist sceptical arguments to conclude that there is no objective past and that our representations of the past are only texts that we produce on the basis of our sociopolitical standpoints. In effect, they contend that there is no objective world, that the world itself is a text that human beings write. This is a form of subjective idealism. Their critique is a nihilistic attack on all objective knowledge.

scholarly journals Divine-Human Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Evil

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Bracken
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Moral Evil ◽  
Natural Evil ◽  
Causal Powers ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Oriented Approach

Abstract The use of the interrelated terms divine primary causality and creaturely secondary causality to describe the God-world relationship presents problems to Christian philosophers and theologians in dealing with two key issues: first, the freedom of human beings (and to some extent other finite entities) to exercise their own causal powers in independence of Divine Providence for the world of creation; secondly, the responsibility of God and all creatures for the existence of natural evil and the corresponding responsibility of God and human beings for the existence of moral evil in this world. After reviewing some of the ways these issues have been dealt with in the past, the author offers his own solution in terms of a Neo-Whiteheadian systems-oriented approach to the God-world relationship with emphasis on a reciprocal causal relationship between God and creatures so as conjointly to bring about everything that happens in this world.

scholarly journals Menyikapi Perbedaan Pandangan Christology from Above and Christology from Below

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Robert Pangaribuan
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

The existence of Jesus in the world at the past time has raised many questions about who He really is. He has the power to carry out powerful and miraculous services that other ordinary human beings cannot possibly do. Pluralists and Liberals question the existence of Jesus; is he really the God who has descended from heaven and become human. To see the existence of the two, it is known the Christology from above and below. This article aims to criticize that theory. The method used is descriptive, using related variables to explain the ratio of both theories of Christology. Abstrak: Kehadiran Yesus di dalam dunia pada masa lalu telah memunculkan banyak pertanyaan tentang siapakah Dia sesungguhnya. Ia berkuasa melakukan pelayanan yang penuh kuasa dan mujizat yang tidak mungkin dapat dilakukan oleh manusia biasa lainnya. Kaum Pluralis dan aliran Liberal mempersoalkan keberadaan Yesus; apakah Ia benar-benar Tuhan yang telah pernah turun dari surga dan menjadi manusia. Untuk melihat keberadaan yang dua itu dikenallah teori Kristologi atas dan bawah. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengkritisi teori tersebut. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif, menggunakan iteratur yang terkait untuk menjelaskan nisbah kedua teori kristologi tersebut.

Organizational Data Mining

2011 ◽  
pp. 891-895
Author(s):  
Hamid R. Nemati ◽  
Christopher D. Barko
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Internet Commerce ◽  
Adoption Rate ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Data mining is now largely recognized as a business imperative and considered essential for enabling the execution of successful organizational strategies. The adoption rate of data mining by enterprises is growing quickly, due to noteworthy industry results in applications such as credit assessment, risk management, market segmentation, and the ever-increasing volumes of corporate data available for analysis. The quantity of data being captured is staggering—data experts estimate that in 2002, the world generated five exabytes of information. This amount of data is more than all the words ever spoken by human beings (Hardy, 2004). The rate of growth is just as astounding—the amount of data produced in 2002 was up 68% from just two years earlier. The size of the typical business database has grown a hundred-fold during the past five years as a result of Internet commerce, ever-expanding computer systems, and mandated recordkeeping by government regulations (Hardy, 2004). Following this trend, a recent survey of corporations across 23 countries revealed that the largest transactional database almost doubled in size to 18 TB (terabytes), while the largest decision-support database grew to almost 30 TB (Reddy, 2004).

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