Too often, activist art is charged with an urgency its very ephemerality bestows upon it, lingering only so long as its context permits, and doomed to
an afterlife as dated social commentary.
We assign glowing traits to
the afterlife as some kind of gleaming party, but the obvious flaw here is that we of course don't know.
The handmade props and stage sets for her performances subsequently have
an afterlife as sculpture and installation work, imbued with the values of her performances.
Hito Steyerl's In Free Fall (2010) follows the journey of a Boeing 707 airplane from its acquisition by TWA, through its role in Israeli military operations and subsequent stardom in the Hollywood movie Speed (1994), to
its afterlife as scrap metal in the Mojave Desert and DVDs in China.
The project will have
an afterlife as a Blaffer publication.
For those of us who dream of
an afterlife as a mermaid, you simply must - try the Subwing — an island - first and a magical way to glide through the ocean with your own dolphin - like fins.
The belief I've acquired over a generous and nevertheless inadequate time on earth is that we arrive in
the afterlife as broken as when we departed from the world.
As accessible a trip to
the afterlife as you could wish for, Pixar's latest fantasia crosses over to the other side, Mexican - style, as a village kid goes against his music - hating family and accidentally strands himself in the Land of the Dead as a result: a mirror - world of lively talking skeletons, many of whom he's related to.
Miguel soon sets off on a quest to find the undead de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt, slick and preening), who's as famous in
the afterlife as he was in life, and who holds the key to sending Miguel home.
As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in
the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.
What if the real super power prefers us freethinkers, and we are given a much higher place in
the afterlife as a reward for using our brains - and you toadies will be the servants.
And it is quite certainly incorrect about the existence of
an afterlife as well.
It is popular in some circles to envision
the afterlife as a parliament of world religions — where Jesus and Buddha and Shankara and Muhammad and Confucius and Mahavira and Moses, along with shamans, bodhisattvas and spirit guides of all descriptions would converse and commune together.
That's how they feel about god, except of course they don't believe in a magically - horrid
afterlife as retribution.
«Not all Americans believe in Hell — a point of view reflected in the relatively large number of «don't know» responses — and many religions don't include punishment in
an afterlife as part of their teachings,» says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
Quite on the contrary, objective morality is far superior for the cooperative advancement of society instead of morality based on archaic stories that dangle an imaginary
afterlife as a magical carrot.
There is a sense in which
the afterlife as conceived here, continues to be related to the still - developing world of the living.
This is not right what he is doing if he is a believer... not to feed on people panic of fears... «Ought to do for life as if you will live for ever and do for
your afterlife as if you will die tomorrow» meaning you have to pave way for both (Life & Afterlife).
We use
the afterlife as a way of believing there is something after death, that death can \» t be IT as a light bulb burn out and darkness, nothingness.
As an agnostic, it sounds like Mr. Hawking is making a similar leap of faith in saying there is no god /
afterlife as religious people who say there is...
Then they can have the same opportunity in
the afterlife as they did here to say «no thanks» or «thank you for giving me the chance».
There is
no afterlife as you have read about it.
The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about
the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.
If there is
afterlife as most of us practicing Chiristians believe then we have to live our faith and die faithfully to what we believe.
The study of NDEs say's as much about
the afterlife as turning off the lights in your bedroom at night does about the boogie man.
Quoting Romans 8:23 «we wait eagerly for... the redemption of our bodies» West says that he hopes that his teaching will ultimately impact the Church by shaping our view of and hope in
the afterlife as offering us bodily redemption.
Not exact matches
It's the community of pundits that can comment on them
as well so they have an
afterlife.»
Material items will not follow you into the
afterlife, so you might
as well declutter your home while you're still here.
Atheists, the bottom line is this: if there is no God, no
afterlife and
as a result of that no standard of behavior, your arguments to disprove him are pointless.
If,
as many of you are inclined to think, that mormonsim is a false religion, then the baptism will have no effect in the
afterlife anyways, so no harm is done.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the
afterlife is exactly the same
as Oz, Tattooine or Winnie the Pooh's forrest; fictional.
Nook — I do nt find it hateful to hope someone
as terrible
as Bin Laden gets his due in the
afterlife (if I were to believe in such a fantasy).
To mis - ascribe it to religion is to shortchange the individuals of their own accomplishments & abilities, & further perpetuates the notion that such a thing
as afterlife, divinity, supernatural & paranormal phenomena exist.
As to historical views of the
afterlife, there are many.
Sales and merchandising are the fields they should stick to — selling
afterlife insurance and telling members that
as long
as they give the company / church money and say they are members, they are free to be horrible human beings.
Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «
afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation
as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.
As they approach death, they seem to be afraid to let go of their lives despite their belief in an
afterlife.
There is no heaven or
afterlife for broken down computers but there is heaven and
afterlife for the souls or the personalities that lived behind those computer but not the actual hardware of the computer... after all if you had the soul you can fix it to any more developed hardware that is suitable to living heaven or hell... Though all people hated dark and favored light for it... but
as seems that Mr.Stephen Hawking is favoring the Dark over the Light which he named
as «Fairy Tales» or «Tales of the Ancient»...!
Is it not a chaplain's duty to ensure that
as many
as possible enter the sweet embrace of the
afterlife?
Nobody knows for certain what happens when we die, but considering how many gods and
afterlives have been proposed in the history of humanity, the chance of the christian god being there to greet us when we die is pretty much the same
as finding Anubis greeting us with Ma'at's feather.
Belief in myths and fables, wish thinking and being obsessed with threats and promises in the
afterlife does not help us
as a species.
Nature is where life comes from, and religions make people believe that we,
as humans, are special, but nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «
afterlife» if we do.
So you're saying that a preacher giving you the choice with the warning of eternal
afterlife consequences is
as convincing
as the mafia coming to you with a choice warning of bodily harm or immediate harm to your home and family?
exlonghorn:
As an athiest do you believe in an
afterlife?
As long as there are people greedy for an afterlife there will be religion there to sell it to the
As long
as there are people greedy for an afterlife there will be religion there to sell it to the
as there are people greedy for an
afterlife there will be religion there to sell it to them.
Do you really not see that your beliefs on non-existence after death are
as unfounded
as my belief in an
afterlife?
Since there is just
as much evidence of that
as there is for your
afterlife hypothesis, all you really have is speculation once someone or some life form dies.
Like, your beliefs about the
afterlife (or lack there of) are just
as presumptive
as mine.
Wow what an idiot, you have just
as little reason to assume that there is nothing
as they do to assume that there an
afterlife, yet you act
as though it were a fact.
They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can —
as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable
afterlife.