Sentences with phrase «by meaninglessness»

I realized that I envied the popular Catholic mass because that liturgy, for many, expressed the mystery which makes sense out of life always threatened by meaninglessness.

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We might also note that Nietzsche's higher or Dionysian vision of Eternal Recurrence — which he judged to be the ultimate expression of Yes - saying or total affirmation — can be reached only by passing through a full and total realization of the meaninglessness and chaos of the world or reality as such.

When he tries to do so, he is both resisted by the outward barriers to his asserted sovereignty and beset within by the sense of meaninglessness which comes from having no correspondence with the health - giving laws of life.

The capacity for keen enjoyment departs, and one is beset by a sense of meaninglessness.

(4) The QuestforMeaning: Paul Tillich insisted that the basic anxiety by which modern Western humanity is afflicted is the anxiety of meaninglessness and despair.

T4 is ruled out by the contention that God is at least possible — he is not impossible, the concept of God is not meaninglessness or contradictory.

As an American psychiatrist has recently pointed out, Freud was haunted by anxiety about death and the meaninglessness of life.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard pressed you are by it, can not be the real truth.

Also, the process of abstract theological construction tended to be carried forward, again by its own momentum, to a point where abstraction led to meaninglessness.

In Altizer, the profane remains throughout a rather passive element that grows only by its association with the sacred, and is of itself pure meaninglessness.

Trying to make projections of the 2008 House races at this point is much more speculative (even by the usual standards of this kind of political prognosticating) to the point of meaninglessness than the other, afore - mentioned contests.

The overcomplicated plot is indeed just an excuse to tie together a melange of colorful and hilarious vignettes — the Coen brothers recognize the meaninglessness of the story by showing us in the end that no kidnapping actually occurred.

The schizoid state... is characterized by a sense of meaninglessness and futility.

Keeping a machine like the E3 advertising / hype cycle going demands this kind of monotony; the same performed enthusiasm and hyperbole - by - committee repeated into meaninglessness.

Mark Salvatus's video installation shows flashes of all the world's currencies suggesting the blur and meaninglessness of subjective value facilitated by paper money.

The irony is that by having gone to the trouble necessary to make this piece, Story denies the very meaninglessness he intends to illustrate.

By their expressive autism, Ireland's pieces often disclose less about themselves than about the condition in which they exist: a cultural field so charged with expectation and reference that everything seems possible in it except meaninglessness, true absurdity.

Outraged by the carnage and immorality of the War, Dadaists were anti-war, anti-art, and determined to ridicule what they considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world.

Candice Jacobs explores the meaninglessness of aspiration within cognitive capital frameworks.Making reference to the seductive use of capital and gender in popular television game shows, Jacobs questions whether our habitual behavioural patterns can be influenced by television programming and the internet, to make us vulnerable to exploitation by global markets and governments.

In scientific terms — by which I mean testable hypotheses — the Drake equation is really meaninglessness.

Existential therapy focuses on the development of a patient / client's self - awareness by looking deeply into the issues of our aloneness, meaninglessness, and mortality.