Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consulting is a popular choice among the plethora of jobs offered by investment bank recruiters. But personal assistants are looked to for advice as well, from creating wills to designing bathrooms. Again, similar concept but more variety and consequently, more satisfaction with the Hollywood option. Check, check...
...year-old ex-journalist who debunks the "superhuman" feats of local shamans on his TV show.) "The sincere advocacy of freedom of religious belief is based on our understanding of the dialectical materialistic theory," says Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau. "It is our concept of God." God, therefore, is subject to "sensible, cautious and scientific choice." As Ye wrote in 1996, "We must definitely adopt Lenin's attitude on such questions: 'Be especially cautious,' 'Be most rigorous,' and 'Think things over...
Tibet at that time was very, very backward. The ruling class did not seem to care, and there was much inequality. Marxism talked about an equal and just distribution of wealth. I was very much in favor of this. Then there was the concept of self-creation. Marxism talked about self-reliance, without depending on a creator or a God. That was very attractive. I had tried to do some things for my people, but I did not have enough time. I still think that if a genuine communist movement had come to Tibet, there would have been much benefit...
Because we are refugees, we have also had a lot of contact with the outside world. The concept of Tibet has become much clearer. Earlier, partly because of Chinese propaganda and also because we were so isolated, people thought of Tibet as a mysterious Shangri-la. Now, after 40 years, that misconception has been cleared. Since we are all struggling together, there is much more unity among Tibetans. Earlier, people living in different areas did not have a sense of national unity. It is much better now because we are all together...
...argue further for irony, I am going to use Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates. I do this not only because it will make me look smart, but because I get to employ the underutilized o. Like that crazy Socrates, who made fun of his interlocutors while pretending to compliment them, Kierkegaard uses irony to force his opponents to avoid rehearsed answers and confront their true beliefs. He even wrote under pseudonyms like Hilarius Bookbinder, Nicolaus Notabene and Constantin Constantius. In the world of 19th century Christian philosophy, this is sidesplitting stuff, trust...