The fact is that Nestorius repeatedly affirmed the perfect unity of the incarnate Christ, and he repudiated any suggestion of there being two persons existing side by side in his being.
Similarly, the United Nation's 2000 Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime defined an organized criminal group as a "structured group of three or more persons, existing for a period of and acting in concert with the aim of committing one or more serious crimes…in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, an economic or other material benefit" (UNICRI, 2008b, UNICRI, 2008a).
I'd allow myself to buy into my own storytelling because it's easier to write intrusive, speculatory and sometimes hurtful things when the subject is a character in a story rather than it is a person existing in the real world; it's easier to listen to the phone messages of Alan Partridge than it is Steve Coogan.
In its 18th-century version, this theory about the inner life paralleled emerging scientific theories about the outer world: it said that a happy person existing alone without exchanging the energy of benevolence with other people is inconceivable, like a celestial body orbiting around nothing.
"I remember thinking right then, If I can reel in a four-hundred-pound fish, why can't I reel out a four-hundred-pound person?" Existing escape equipment — parachutes, cables attached to building-mounted cranes, inflatable airplane slides — struck him as inadequate, too complicated, or prone to failure.
Plot predictions have never been my strong suit, and maybe I'm underestimating this show's capacity for subtlety, but I'm worried we're going to find out in the season finale that Ramon is Farid's son or that they're somehow the same person existing in two different bodies.
"I remember thinking right then, If I can reel in a four-hundred-pound fish, why can't I reel out a four-hundred-pound person?" Existing escape equipment parachutes, cables attached to building-mounted cranes, inflatable airplane slides struck him as inadequate, too complicated, or prone to failure.
What is it for a person existing at one time to be identical to a person existing at another?
Assuming that a human vegetable is not a person, this is not a case involving a person existing at one time and a person existing at another time.
We have a person existing at one time and a person existing at another, and the question is what is necessary and sufficient for them to be one person rather than two.
But this reconciliation, he argued, cannot occur as long as God continues to be thought of as an individual person existing independently of the world.
