Sentences with phrase «how fear of death»

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Unfortunately, fear of death, no matter how effective as a tool for social engineering, is not the proper moral grounds for virtue...

Leave it to religion to dictate how you should think and act, down to your last moments of life, for fear of experiencing even greater pain after death... and why shouldn't they know?

To «create» a solution out of pure thin air that can take away his fear of death, can be something to aspire to be like in an imperfect world, can provide a promise of better days to come no matter how hard things are today, even if that time is only after you've died.

But what is surprising is how little he appealed to fear of Hell or even to the expectation of rewards after death.

And can you imagine how many great minds were lost because of fear from prosecution and back then that meant DEATH to them and their families.

I think the conversation around the fear of death has less to do with fear, but more to do with how we define death.

And as much as people talk about how great Heaven is, I just can't quite get over a fear of death.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

Whereas in the earlier Luther the fear of death was the ultimate form of unbelief, the Luther who discovered justification by faith understood that no matter how great our faith, it can not be strong enough to stave off terror before death.

In the light of the resurrection we can look back and see how up to then the whole pattern of living had been cast in terms of death and its associated fears.

No, the fear of death is all encompassing and pushed the masses for answers, no matter how fallible they are.

Let me tell you how science can put people on the moon but science can do nothing to stop human corruption, evil, fear, and the cycle of ultimate and eventual death - fool!

We can now only stutter and struggle to express to one another in incomplete words how we experience a dimension of life that we call graceful or loving, demonic or tragic, what we mean when we speak of the healing quality of life or our fears and hopes, what we mean when we describe how we can trust in life and trust in the death that awaits us.

One finds this legacy enfleshed, for example, in Updike's story «Pigeon Feathers,» which describes how David Kern as a youth observes the design on the feathers of several pigeons he has shot and in the process is able to overcome his fear of death.

I swear, it never ceases to amaze me how this country can be so technologically advanced and yet somehow still be stuck in the Middle Ages philosophically... Just goes to show you how powerful the fear of death really is.

It's how a lot of people deal with their fear of death (and injustice in the world).

Professor Peter Johnson, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, said: «The thing we fear most about cancer is how it can spread around the body — this is what causes 90 per cent of all cancer deaths.

The assumption of many is that an external force (the humans for the apes and vice versa) will be the death knell of a civilization, but here we see how that very fear of «the other» sows seeds of suspicion within the society that are ultimately its undoing.

Featuring emotional interviews with Ford's mother and sister, it's an intimate meditation of how a family's personal tragedy is situated in an institutionalized fear of blackness and how a loved one's unexplainable death has impact decades later.

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Featuring emotional interviews with Ford's mother and sister, it's an intimate meditation of how a family's personal tragedy is situated in an institutionalized fear of blackness and how a loved one's unexplainable death has enduring impact decades later.

Separated, without the competition of girls in the class, they will talk about the double standards they face, how they pick role models, their fears and successes, and the pain of death and divorce.

However, this is the first novel I have read that addresses the emptiness that comes from having lived through that kind of pervasive fear and death and how a person can forge a life after.»

For those of you who played Demon's Souls, you probably realized that death should not be feared, but instead should be used as a lesson on how to become stronger and surpass the trials that caused our death.

As Emma Kidwell writes in «A Mortician's Tale shows how businesses exploit our fear of death,» A Mortician's Tale is unique in how dead bodies are treated.

For a start, how about teaching art history in art lessons from the point of view of the artist, tell them Francis Bacon hung about with the Krays, or that Caravaggio murdered someone, let them know that the stuff about the vanishing point and composition are tools for conveying aspects of life, death, fear, sex - god forbid, humour - and those po faced dullards with posh voices that stand in front of great works pointing at background views of Tuscany are no more to do with painting pictures than I am an art historian.

I would describe myself as pretty at ease with the prospect of death now which seems incredible considering how many years I was plagued with acute panic attacks and an intense fear of my own mortality.

It's practised by psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, a pioneer in understanding fear of death and how to treat it in therapy.