Should it be simply assumed that members of sufficiently "totalistic" groups lack free will?. From Wordnik.com. [Cult Freedom] Reference
PODHORETZ: Because the White House is a totalistic atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993] Reference
A totalistic religious mentality is frequently not conducive to peace. From Wordnik.com. [Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #33] Reference
"The experience is a totalistic one, which occurs in an entire context," I said. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
The life of the female slave is a consistent, totalistic and indissoluble whole. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
They had a satellite regime in Afghanistan, but it was not a totalistic, Wahhabi regime. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Islam] Reference
This year the homework is to find their favorite three-color outer totalistic cellular automata. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : Summer Adventures in the Computational Universe] Reference
Russia and Serbia really accepted this totalistic view of life, and they accepted this power ideology. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Islam] Reference
The difference is that the Wahhabis have a religious dispensation that creates a totalistic sense of self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Islam] Reference
Calling it a "totalistic, high demand cult group, which manipulates its members to serve Ilchi lee's financial interest.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010] Reference
Calling it a "totalistic, high demand cult - group" which manipulates its members to serve Ilchi Lee's financial interests. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010] Reference
"This rhetoric," he suggested, "does seem to be a bit on the synoptic side -- all things gathered into one totalistic thing.". From Wordnik.com. [James Pinkerton: Grave Wisdom from a Grave Oxford Don] Reference
Here, of course, in a Gorean alcove, and given our condition, he free, I a collared slave, who must submit and obey, there was just such a totalistic context. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
Scholar Sean McCloud of North Carolina-Charlotte (in an article in the 2006 book Faith in America) suggests high-pressure totalistic religions have not disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion writer spouts misinformation about the term ‘cult’] Reference
Despite their very different philosophical commitments and interests, ancient, modern, and contemporary Nativists are all drawn to this totalistic version of the doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [Disbelief] Reference
Indeed, it would then be a totalistic relationship, the most totalistic relationship possible between a man and a woman, that in which she is total slave, and he absolute master. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
I expect we could easily classify people who use images like that “fundamentalists” since their “deep and totalistic commitment” means they think everyone wants to share in their obsession. From Wordnik.com. [Morgentaler Maligned Into A Murderer « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
PHILLIPS: Ryan Kent represents 27 former Dahn Yoga employees who are suing the organization, calling it, quote, a totalistic, high demand cult-group, which manipulates its members to serve Ilchi Lee's financial interests. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010] Reference
PHILLIPS: Ryan Kent represents 27 former Dahn Yoga employees who are suing the organization, calling it a, quote, "totalistic, high - demand cult group" which manipulates its members to serve Ilchi Lee's financial interest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010] Reference
I should also say that the RAND study basically proved John Kerry right, and he is continuing to smartly lay out a new strategy against extremism designed to put military force in the background and a more totalistic "global counterinsurgency" based on legitimacy and global development in the foreground. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Former employees allege Dahn Yoga is "a totalistic, high-demand cult group". From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
To destroy something is further down the line; destruction is totalistic and irreversible, ruination not so much. From Wordnik.com. [Emdashes] Reference
Both are totalistic belief systems intending to govern the social/religious as well as the economic aspects of society. From Wordnik.com. [Israpundit] Reference
Dreyfus and Kelly say that we should have the courage not to look for some unitary, totalistic explanation for the universe. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
In reality, it is often the unsatisfied, the depressed, the downtrodden and the lost who provide mortar for the edifices of violent, totalistic ideologies. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
And yet it is an objective fact that, even in the most bitter and totalistic warfare, there will always be noncombatants who are innocents wrt to the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Wolfram also talks about three-color totalistic cellular automaton where there are more rules and they are more complex - even though the rules are more complex, the resulting behavior is not. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
Wolfram also suggests that a different, more complex type on cellular automaton (three-state, totalistic), although it has a much larger number of possible rules, still exhibits the same basic patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
We can either rebel against this superficial drift, or like Dreyfus and Kelly, go with the flow, acknowledging that the autonomous life is impossible, not seeking totalistic theologies, but instead becoming sensitive participants in the collective whooshings that life offers. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"perfect master," and his followers do not see him in this totalistic way either. From Wordnik.com. [FACTnet] Reference
That “mad experiment” ended with Deng Xiaoping’s effective counter-revolution in the 1980s, which unleashed a new totalistic belief, this time in the market. From Wordnik.com. [hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Keyholes Into A Radically Liminal China] Reference
Not because you’re an atheist, but because your totalistic convictions on abortion are closer to they are than the classical liberal and libertarian values of Canadians. From Wordnik.com. [Morgentaler Maligned Into A Murderer « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
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