Depression affects people from all walks of life, but there has been particular focus on it in the music industry recently, with the tragic
deaths of people like Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, both of whom took their lives over the summer of 2017.
Joanna Penn: And we've certainly had
the death of people like Prince, real creatives, who make you realize, «Oh my goodness, got to get on with life.»
Not exact matches
He said most
people's relationship to dying is
like a Woody Allen joke: «I'm not afraid
of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.»
Take for example Michael Hebb, the founder
of Death over Dinner, a nonprofit that brings together
people — over dinner — to reflect on the consequential event that happens to us all, but that no one
likes to talk about.
People who felt
like their lives had meaning had a 15 % lower risk
of death in a 14 year period, compared to those who said they felt aimless.
That's
like condemning a lot
of people to
death, because a lot could go wrong.»
While it's difficult to find out what Disney's signature actually looked
like — there were a lot
of people authorized to sign his name — the logo that we recognize as the Disney logo, in fact, didn't exist until well after his
death, as it first appeared in 1984.
It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot
of social justice - oriented white
people and a lot
of white
people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things
like «no
death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking
people's property unjustifiably.»
It's something most
people don't
like to think about, but in the event
of your
death, an unpaid business loan can affect your family.
«I know how awful it is to watch
people you love struggle as the disease robs them
of their mental capacity... It feels a lot
like you're experiencing a gradual
death of the
person that you knew,» he said in a blog post about the dementia investments.
The outages have proved deadly, with
people unable to use lifesaving medical equipment
like dialysis machines, and they've contributed to Puerto Rico's official
death toll
of 64.
every
death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe
like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds
of people that died and what happened here with a storm that was just totally over-bearing.
And some
of those
deaths occurred because the power outages kept
people from getting essential medical treatment
like dialysis.
I think it really will take something
like 80 % for gun control, and tragically, I'm convinced it will take a lot more senseless
deaths — and not just the
death of black teenagers, but the
deaths of children
of powerful
people through gun violence.
I am a spiritually oriented
person myself but I am sick to
death of seeing religion dragged into politics, Biblical passages used
like football cheers to encourage the destruction
of the opposition, etc..
Like other atheists has often said:
People does not seem so troubled about the billions
of years
of nonexistence before their birth, but most are very anxious about
death and the probable nonexistance after that event.
The Rev Val Duff, minister
of South Shawlands Parish Church close to where Asad Shah's shop was, said at the time: «
Like many
people I am deeply saddened to hear
of Asad Shah's
death.
As North Korea's new leader mourns the
death of his father, Chang hopes Kim Jong Un will remember
people like Chang Soon Lee.
It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry
like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning
people to
death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands
of INNOCENT
people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.
Sounds
like a trumped up display
of anger over a necessary attempt to disrupt terrorist acts and the
deaths of actual
people.
He would definitely be disappointed that
people are still being put to
death just
like he was because
of their political and religious beliefs.
I am quite sick
of people using religion as a shield from being held accountable,... especially as they
like to say things
like «we are all going to be held accountable after
death.»
Even the
people who have left the institutional church try to make almost every group
of which they are a part look
like «church», which is usually the kiss
of death for the group.
If some
of us are not free... then none
of us are free... and I promise that that I will fight
people like you to the
death before I would allow you to subvert our Nation into your version
of a sharia theocracy.
No one experiences and thinks about
death like an atheist, and it can be a scary concept for a lot
of people.
do you no what it feels
like to be in a room full
of people professing an ideology that advocates your
death.
One
of the important discoveries in the experience
of counseling is that for a
person to begin the search for himself is
like facing
death.
We all will have to taste
death and then raise on that day for accountability and there will be family reunion in heavens and outside
of heavens where no one wish to be... what a great loss for the one who would be reunited outside
of the heavens
like the
people of Noah who did not believe in him,
people of Lot did things that they were not supposed to do, pharaoh with his army and many more... on the other hand Noah with the ones who believed in him, Abraham and his family who are submitted as Abraham submitted to The One God Almighty, Lot and his daughters and many more...
If a
person must believe in the
death and resurrection
of Jesus, must they believe that Jesus rose in a glorified, eternal, incorruptible body, and that He went on to ascend into heaven, or can they believe that He went on to live, grow old, and die again
of old age
like the others who were resurrected in Scripture?
The superpatient
person is
like one who has a very serious illness, who has come through the most dangerous phase
of the illness yet later unexpectedly dies from a sudden relapse
of fever; the fever was finally the cause
of death.15 Again, the superpatient
person is
like a soldier who has had a great victory in the field — the main battle is over; going into the city thinking the victory already secured, the negligent soldier is stupidly captured by a small, insignificant force within the gates.
For you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily
person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit
of prosperity, the demonism
of greed, the hell
of passion, the decay
of faith, the long postponement, the fossil -
like lethargy, the ceaseless need
of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms,
deaths, births, new projections and invigorations
of ideas and men.1
Just
like the Christians who have no remorse for blocking the civil rights
of gay
people that brings harm to their families, especially during emergencies when they are denied being with their loved ones during
death in a hospital and protection for their children.
From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child
of God and turn to my own plans
of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough
person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new
like having again been moved from
death to life and I reconcile aspects
of myself and I reconcile to others around me.
As he heard the speaker describe the anxiety and resistance
of basically affluent
people facing
death after a comfortable life, he could think only
of the many
people he knew,
like his parents and relatives, who suffer so much so unjustly.
your delusional if any
of it doesn't sound
like an explaination
of a natural event or something
like death where all we have is to guess... its all stone age beliefs and some
people are still as smart as ug the stone age hunter who says thank you to the gods
of the plains and stars for providing animals to hunt and light to hunt by.
people do realize it's not these Muslims many
of us feel uncomfortable around... it's the ones who think the girl in the picture should be stoned to
death because we can see her face and she's smiling... we don't
like the ones who want to kill us
Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison
people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt
of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because
of the effects
of modern hygiene on
death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something
like the end
of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war
of the past could be.
In another interview, marking Zevon's
death, she expanded upon that, noting that many
of his best friends were «solid, grounded
people with families, and that's what Warren always craved, even if he didn't always act
like that.»
Yet when most
people are reading their Bibles (and they have their spiritual - colored glasses on), and read about some sort
of sin that brings
death, they put a spiritual twist on it, and think it is referring to spiritual
death, or losing your eternal life, or something
like that.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (
Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils
of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (
Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (
Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (
Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (
Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (
Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly
people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws
of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (
Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins
of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth
like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
But through all
of His teachings and miracles, and climaxing in His
death and resurrection, Jesus was trying to show
people what God was really
like, and how the Kingdom
of Heaven truly operated.
The persecution
of people of «the way» has begun, and though we may wish to only show love we will eventually be pushed into taking a stand, much
like those in Muslim countries who are being confronted with
death for nothing more than saying they love Jesus.
Toys may seem insignificant, but they are a symbolic part
of the
death - oriented culture that the «pro-life»
person would
like to stand on its head.
I just wonder why they are not fighting just as hard against other forms
of «killing humans»
like the
death penalty (no one can say no innocent
people have died on
death row) the poor and sick and many elderly being allowed to starve and freeze because the religious right doesn't want to shoulder that burden through their taxes.
I love how
people fail to comprehend what would have happened if
people like that had
of admitted to disbelief back then... nothing quite
like signing your own
death warrant!
There are
of course further issues with capital punishment,
like the number
of innocent
people who have been executed by our gov «t. I would think anyone on the «sanct!ty
of life» bandwagon would necessarily be against the
death penalty for that reason alone.
John and Darwin,
like all the
people who reject the Lord Jesus Christ you put your hope in the appearance
of today rather than the hopelessness that awaits you when you face
death and the grave.
People of other religions
like Jews, Christians and Muslims also believe in life after
death, but not in reincarnation
like the Hindus.
So,
people like that are active participants in the
death of young
people.
To be sure, for the Jewish
people, who have experienced their fair share
of forced conversions over the centuries (think the Spanish Inquisition), the suggestion that victims
like Holocaust victim Anne Frank or Pearl might be baptized after
death can be horribly offensive.