3) admitting you believe existence to
be meaningless at its core, meaningless throughout, and yet we are supposed to fabricate meaning & «just get on with it»... not only is that utterly self - contradictory but it sounds like you saying: «yep, just live life with your head in the sand.»
We realized early on that the traditional reporting time frames (YTD, 1 -, 3 -, 5 - and 10 - year periods)
were meaningless at best and seriously misleading at worst since they capture arbitrary periods unrelated to the rhythms of the market.
What truly moves TSB beyond the average adventure title is that you must not only explore and interact with the game space, but within the time as well, for objects or rooms that
are meaningless at 4:00 p.m., could prove to be pivotal hours later.
As I just said, these results
are meaningless at this point.
Two places in my post, stressed with bolding that climate projections
are meaningless at the level of resolution of greenhouse forcing.
If the trends
are meaningless at 8 years, they are most likely meaningless at 30 years also, as well as 800 years, 8000 years etc. etc; you have to take the scaling behaviour into account when forming the null hypothesis (and, unlike Gavin's illustrations, make sure you are not restricting the number of degrees of freedom at longer scales by applying the test on the same length of data!)
Not exact matches
«All of this great work in iOS 10 would
be meaningless if it came
at the expense of your privacy,» he said on stage
at the event in San Francisco.
The earning ranges documented can
be so large (e.g., $ 50,000 to $ 500,000) as to
be meaningless, if they
are shared
at all, since filling out Item 19
is optional.
There
's nothing so
meaningless as doing efficiently that which should not
be done
at all.
McDonald counters that the Bernstein sample
is so small as to
be meaningless and says P&G's research shows that pride in the company
is at 84 %.
Without a system for identifying regulations damaging to small business and addressing them in a targeted way, the executive order
is meaningless, says Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist
at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that seeks nonpartisan solutions to national challenges.
Publishing should
be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and
at some point the distinction should become
meaningless.
Many investors make the mistake of looking only
at current or recent earnings, which
are nothing more than
meaningless snapshots of where a company
is or
was.
The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and
at that point, what happens in the stock market
is meaningless.»
The sheer number of Pages and advertisers on its platform renders «view ads» an almost entirely
meaningless addition, especially as cyberscammers and malicious actors
are also going to
be experts
at setting up new accounts to further their scams — moving on to the next batch of burner accounts after they've netted each fresh catch of unsuspecting victims.
Of the 52 Facebook comments, the remaining five included one asking whether the clear backpacks
were just
at Stoneman Douglas or
were countywide (Answer: Just Stoneman Douglas); two that weren't understandable; and two that maintained minor students have no rights in public school, so the complaints about the loss of rights by students
were meaningless.
The sheer number of Pages and advertisers on its platform renders «view advertisements» a virtually utterly
meaningless addition, primarily as cyberscammers and malicious actors
are additionally going to
be specialists
at setting up new bills to additional their scams — moving on to the next batch of burner debts after they've netted each sparkling catch of unsuspecting victims.
At 10, time
is meaningless and goes ever so slowly.
How any of the rest of us measure it
at this point in time really
is meaningless because we
're not driving the markets in that regard.
He compared it to looking
at the page of a book, which
is meaningless when taken in as a whole and instead needs to
be looked
at word by word.
«The valuation of Saudi Aramco
at IPO
is largely
meaningless when
being sold to locals,» says Emad Mostaque, a strategist specializing in geopolitics, frontier markets and oil
at London - based emerging markets consulting firm Ecstrat.
In reality, the signals market prices send
are meaningless to the fundamentals of the underlying company, they benefit us only buy offering an opportunity to buy or sell
at any given time.
What appeared good or even very good
at first turned out to
be meaningless and pointless, and the introduction of suffering and struggle and maturity
was a good thing.
It connotes the passage of time; the fleeting moments that make up our memories
at the end of our lives; but most importantly, it conveys just how
meaningless any gifts would
be compared to the gift the Polziecs gave the Gerstens.
I don't think I
'm someone who looks
at the universe and says this
is meaningless.
One might translate what the editor
is really saying as «the concept of
being a woman
is now utterly
meaningless but we have decided to preserve the fiction
at those points where it
is politically convenient for us to do so.»
Dull, repetitive, seemingly
meaningless tasks, offering little challenge or autonomy,
are causing discontent among workers
at all occupational levels...
It should
be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what
is peculiar to this or that writer, what
is central from what
is peripheral, what
is essential from what
is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will
be intelligible, or
at least not
meaningless, to the contemporary mind.
At all events the physicist and the philosopher have a choice: either the infinite supporting the finite structures of intelligibility
is material and hence
meaningless or there
is a personal Infinite, whose intelligibility surpasses human intelligibility even while supporting its analogous understanding.
At a purely physical level these words
are nothing more than a collection of
meaningless particles of graphite.
«Everything - in - God» tells us that God
is not so exalted that he becomes
meaningless to human life, but rather
is operative in the whole creation
at every level, moving through it, working upon it, accomplishing the divine goodwill in it.
I don't care if a scientist
is a Christian, Muslim, Republican, German, or what, if they
are going to assert something to
be true, they best have the evidence to
at least show something to
be highly probable, otherwise, it
's meaningless.
At the very least, this historical fact
is a warning that the shepherding image may become irrelevant or
meaningless.
We
're at that place again where the name feels old,
meaningless.
Why does existance have to
be meaningless just because we came about
at those astronomically high odds?
Tell me when you
are ready and I will
be happy to show you why you
are not on this planet by chance, why you
were created to
be at this time and place for a reason, your life
is not
meaningless... you matter...
@nonono - «Tell me when you
are ready and I will
be happy to show you why you
are not on this planet by chance, why you
were created to
be at this time and place for a reason, your life
is not
meaningless... you matter...»
I've always found it odd that some repeat the Disciples» Prayer
at all, given that Jesus prefaced it by saying, «When you
are praying, do not use
meaningless repetition» (Matt 6:7).
It may well
be said here that we have gleaned the best; much
is repetitious,
meaningless (to us
at least), superstitious, crude, even savage and licentious, but if God
is where the Good, the True, the Beautiful
are found, who can deny that among these people there
were those who saw something of His face as they «sought after if haply they might find him?»
Here «transcendence»
is always and everywhere synonymous with the abstract, the empty, the
meaningless, the past, the distant, and the dead in everlasting opposition to and separation from the concrete, the significant, the present, the near
at hand, and the living.4
The problem
is not
meaningless, but inferences that one may put forward
are not
at present verifiable or falsifiable.
But his habitual response to any concept whose meaning he has not taken the time to learn
is to dismiss it as
meaningless, with the sort of truculent affectation of contempt that suggests he really knows,
at some level, that he
is out of his depth.
Even when we see someone who feels that his life
is meaningless and as a result contemplates and may even commit suicide, there remains that hidden sense of meaning — for to
be a suicide
is to say that
at least in this way, if in no other, I may act out meaningfully what I think
is worth doing.
It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a
meaningless and empty life... Sometimes
at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it
is as though a voice
were saying: «You
are accepted.
Although they will in their future life
be confronted with handicaps, sometimes very severe, their future prospects and their actual experienced quality of life can not
be predicted with such certainty
at birth that their lives can
be regarded as hopeless or
meaningless («quality of life judgments» as such
being unacceptable in this decision making).
Consider just this last pair: some people find prayers written by others to
be meaningless for them, and find traditional prayers to become empty with repetition so that they
are nothing but noise or,
at best, pleasing sounds with no significance.
Is it not
at least equally likely that if you keep telling people that they lead
meaningless lives in a
meaningless universe you might just find yourself with —
at best — a vacuous life and a hollow culture?
There
was no forgetting, no Korsakov's then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should
be; for he
was no longer
at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of
meaningless sequences and memory traces — but
was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole
being, which carried feeling and meaning in an organic continuity and unity, a continuity and unity so seamless it could not permit any break.
Finally, one looks
at themselves, and sees no soul or spirit, yet spends countless hours trying to prove the validity of the thought that when they die their lives will
be meaningless and of no eternal consequence.
To the biologist such language
is meaningless, for he does not regard death as a problem
at all.