This is the consistent double - theme that runs through the Bible: in relation to God all human greatness is as nothing; and yet
because of this nothingness before God, even the lowliest is of immeasurable value.
Not exact matches
The Second Death that is referred to in the Bible is the return to complete
nothingness because if one believes that Jehovah will permit anyone to suffer for an eternity can not believe that this same God is the epitomy
of Love.
As for the watch problem, its so hypothetical it's really not worth much more to pursue
because you are right, I think it highly imporbable a watch would appear from
nothingness, and since that has never in the history
of the universe as we know it, to have happened, to discuss what I would do in that event is moot.
I confess that I want pagan night — una nox dormienda — not solely, however,
because nothingness is better than the prospect
of pain, even terminable pain.
Anselm was clearly seeking to uphold the balance
of analogy between Infinite and finite
because he did not want to refer all human meaning to
nothingness.
It is precisely
because an epiphany
of Antichrist abolishes the transcendent source
of evil and
nothingness by embodying a primordial chaos in the actuality
of history that it is a redemptive epiphany, an epiphany unveiling the full reality
of alienation and repression, thereby preparing the way for their ultimate reversal.
Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals
of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but
because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor
of philosophy is one
of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature
of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind
of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals
of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion
of the flesh, a pure
nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.
This huge, blue planet is in existance just so we can be born, live, make a living, have a baby, then die... no connection, no spirit, no soul, no more appreciating the beauty around us, no more being astounded at the improbabilities, no more being amazed at the wonders
of life...
because none
of that has any meaning any more, it's just a bunch
of junk that happened accidently... who cares, we're just all going to fade away into
nothingness... become one with the dirt,
because we are actually no better than the dirt... I don't know about you, but I'm depressed now... but then that's what's great about our country, you can choose to believe or... not... in this... country... that has... no particular meaning... in the grand scheme
of thngs... oh, yeah, that's right there is no «grand scheme
of things»... so never mind.
In the above - mentioned person - and - rock discussion in which he rejected the superiority
of the person's nonstone capacity for «inclusion»
of the stone in his field
of thought and action, Professor Nishitani maintained that Zen
Nothingness (sunyata),
because of its indeterminate character, could include both the person and the rock in a «loving» relation, in which (1) each party could relate to the other in the true meaning
of «love,» without let or hindrance; and (2) at the same time respect the true identity
of the other being without coercing it into any preformed, or prejudged, relational framework.
Yes i know two counsellors i told one
of them about this and i want to know why Jesus Christ without any mercy sends that person to hell forever to suffer and never ever forgives them even though they didn't commit any thing like murder and that also forever you can forgive that person went in minutes
of that sin with in a snap
of a finger then only why that sin why not give him another life in Earth after forgiving and punishing him for the rest
of his sin it is said that god and Jesus Is very merciful then why he is giving such a life sentence that is much more worse than eternal
nothingness and why doesn't he punish Satun with eternal
nothingness because i think most
of the sins in Earth are committed
because of him only?
Because death is a state
of nothingness.
It alone places a man before him without whom man would only be horribly conscious
of a radical void and
nothingness; it alone is capable
of uniting all the manifold contradictory powers
of man,
because it directs them all to God.
Should we lead the world to
nothingness,
because nothingness is the way
of resurrection?
To believe that a quantum vacuum appeared out
of the void
of nothingness because of the laws
of quantum mechanics demanded it does not solve the question why there is something rather than nothing.
The question
of why existence instead
of nothingness is fine, but there's no automatic answers just
because most people have been brainwashed into the religion / god
of their culture.
She's the black hole
of the movie, sucking everything into her profound
nothingness, but that's OK
because that's what Bertolucci seems to think lust is about.
Since the images redacted by the piece's performance are
of no apparent consequence, we don't have an erased DeKooning drawing or a mauled poster
of a dictator; we have a sense
of nothingness, erased, creating a sense only that the photograph can behave as a Minimal object rather than a depicting thing —
because it wants to and can.
This way
of framing depression, stuckness, or
nothingness in our lives goes very contrary to many
of our beliefs, largely
because of where we were brought up.