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In addiction, as in more mainstream endeavors, the lords of hedonism are the slaves of money.

I was all the more smitten when later on I absorbed the staggering news that U2 were not only openly opposed to rock's usual sex & drugs hedonism, but Christian!

3 Generous, life - giving spousal love is the antidote to hedonism and immaturity: parents gladly give up frivolous pursuits and selfishness for the intensely more meaningful work of loving and educating their children.

So Todd Stiefel, hedonism would make a lot more sense than humanism.

Ireland is more secular, but it went to their heads: a kind of hedonism.

Humanism is unquestionably a far more idealistic creed than hedonism.

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

As for your assertion that I warp good existing ideas as part of my Western hedonism, may I offer that I firmly believe that living a moral life is even more paramount without a God.

She says both groups of animals took the same amount of time to start taking heroin, suggesting THC use doesn't start them on the path to hedonism, but the THC - primed rats got more into it, suggesting it paves the way for increased use.

I'm officially back from Hawaii, with a few day stopover in uos Angeles before finally migrating HOME.I've been immersed in total paradise for the last 10 days, and while most of my vacations usually involve more hedonism than health, the... Continue Reading about Ayurvedic Cleansing Green Kitchari Bowl

At EliteSingles we wanted to know if Kiwi workplaces embrace the glamorous hedonism of Mad Men or if the reality is more like the mundane 9 - 5 of The Office.

At EliteSingles we wanted to know if Irish workplaces embrace the glamorous hedonism of Mad Men or if the reality is more like the mundane 9 - 5 of The Office.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

There's lots of sex here — exuberant, ecstatic, exhibitionist, giving way to a more damaging hedonism — yet this mysterious and ravishingly beautiful film rights itself triumphantly.

Koh Phangan, is a prime destination for anybody who likes to dabble in some tropical island hedonism every now and Read More»

A student of Socrates, who you may remember from a previous paragraph, developed Ethical Hedonism, a theory concerning the pursuit of pleasure - the highest good - stating that everyone should experience more pleasure than pain.

Quite another direction leads to a vision of more embodied hedonism: Pierre Bonnard and Pablo Picasso.

His Nike sneakers a gesture to that familiar self - reflexive irony that Karilampi's work plays on; a dejected hedonism that appears to pervade much of the more interesting work on show.

A traditional French hedonism, which is being given a more and more decorative elaboration today, pulls them up short on the threshold of discovery.

This was the period when Scully's paintings pushed forward his many early attempts to retain a vivid and exaggerated dynamic edge, when his coy and brilliant hedonism found its écriture, and when earthy bands of color became wider and more expressive as if to protrude into a deeper tonality through his pulsating, gestural applications.

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