Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God, and instead of following human traditions, they hold to the Bible as the standard for all their beliefs.
About one-third of the work is concerned with the problem of justification, while other subjects treated include the church, human tradition, the invocation of saints, marriage of priests, the mass, monastic vows, penitence, and original sin.
Unfortunately, behind this shimmering natural spectacle lies a darker human tradition of exploitation and corruption that has impoverished the Kenyan people to whom the reserve actually belongs, a tribe of nomadic cattle herders known as the Masai.
It's less flexible than the chairs in Wall-E (kudos to Megan for noticing the similarity), but perfect for alleviating the pains of an age-old human tradition – standing in line.
It's one of the oldest human traditions: sitting around a campfire or in a cave, telling stories.
By becoming more "radically historical" I mean confronting more candidly the myriad effects and consequences (intended and unintended, conscious and unconscious) of power-laden and conflict-ridden social practice--e.g., the complex confluence of human bodies, traditions, and institutions".
As a result, generations of arrowheads might arise as adaptations, showing the gradual refinement and diversification that is characteristic of human cultural traditions (Richerson and Boyd 2005: 115).
This is an important subject: how much will the human traditions of ecstatic dance, group celebration and Carnival preserve autonomy and help preserve the dignity of individuals?
The long-term impact of these disruptions to deep-seated human traditions is not yet known.
Prisoners were the raw material for rituals of human sacrifice, a tradition that had a venerable Mesoamerican history and that the Aztecs took to exceptional lengths.
