Word: mistakenness
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...theology." The Maryknoll Fathers' Orbis Books will publish it in English in June as Christology at the Crossroads. Sobrino, a Jesuit and professor at the Universidad José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador, says that Christians working for justice should realize that Jesus was mistaken in his social outlook because he expected the imminent appearance of the kingdom of God. In fact, he thinks that Jesus had to undergo a "conversion" in his views...
...computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind." The machines can break loose from human intentions. Computers, he argues, are infinitely literal-minded; they exercise no judgments, have no values. Fed a program that was mistaken, a military computer might send off missiles in the wrong direction or fire them at the wrong time. Several years ago, Admiral Thomas Moorer, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate committee: "It is unfortunate that we have become slaves to these damned computers...
...book's "central dichotomy of I-thou and I-it would not have stood up to Buber's scrutiny," if he had not "mistaken intense emotion for revelation," Kaufmann said...
...Troon, where he had competed 50 years earlier in the 1923 Open. The 71-year-old Sarazen shot rounds of 79 and 81. After his final round he was strolling along the clubhouse veranda when he overheard two of the oldest members discussing his performance. "If I'm not mistaken," one of them said to the other, "Sarazen had a total of 160 for his two rounds in 1923--a 75 and an 85. This year once again he had a total of 160--a 79 and an 81. He hasn't improved at all over the years...
...frequently ran articles of purported instances where one marijuana cigarette had led previously respectable citizens to commit crimes of violence or had sent them into fits of insanity. The stories, of course, were told in lurid detail and did much to boost sales. These imaginative stories, combined with the mistaken belief that the drug was highly addictive, led to a series of laws which, while not banning medical uses outright, imposed severe taxes on such uses. As a result, prescription of the drug fell to insignificance...