Not exact matches
It makes dealing with
death easier, more final, and more
human than believing that those have passed on have nothing batter to do than float
around the heavens watching down on us.
The chatter
around a poll released Wednesday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service will likely focus on the findings highlighted in their news release: 82 % of Americans surveyed believe that bin Laden distorted the teachings of Islam to suit his own purposes; 65 % believe the al Qaeda leader is rotting in hell; and 62 % think it is wrong to celebrate the
death of another
human being.
The
death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the
human faces and voices and bodies
around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.
It was a sort of added dividend that when Holy Week and Easter came
around, progress through the letter had landed me precisely at Philippians 2:1 - 11: «And being found in
human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto
death, even
death on a cross.
I know he admired Spinoza and brandied the word «god»
around as a metaphor for the numinous, but he certainly did not believe in the notions of life after
death or a god that in any way worried itself with
human beings.
The multi-author study, by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control's Partners for Rabies Prevention Group, also shows that annual economic losses because of the disease are
around 8.6 billion US dollars, mostly due to premature
deaths, but also because of spending on
human vaccines, lost income for victims of animal bites and other costs.
It also estimates that
around 2.1 million
deaths are caused each year by
human - caused increases in fine particulate matter (PM2.5)?
Around 6.5 million
deaths globally are attributed each year to poor air quality inside and outside, making it the world's fourth - largest threat to
human health, behind high blood pressure, dietary risks and smoking.
RSV infections are estimated to cause more than 250,000
human deaths annually
around the world.
Falk says the new findings challenge the idea that, starting
around 5,000 years ago, states reduced rates of violence and war
deaths characteristic of earlier, much smaller
human groups (SN: 8/10/13, p. 10).
The
human immune system is highly evolved to protect us from illness, yet it still falls prey to a wide variety of infectious diseases, among them the leading causes of
death and disability
around the world.
The metaphysical aspects here are used in the service of the characters, not the other way
around — this is, first and foremost, a
human study, a love story, an existential treatise on the inevitability of
death and the preciousness of life.
Lucky for R, Julie is not so choked up about Perry's
death, leaving her more receptive than you'd suspect to the attentions of her new gentleman zombie pal, who smuggles her onto an empty jetliner on the tarmac of an abandoned airport, advising her in grunts and groans that can barely be parsed as
human language that she needs to stay on board with him for a few days, until the rest of his zombie buddies conveniently forget she's
around.
In contrast, the annual tally of
human rabies
deaths worldwide is
around 55,000 — 50 - 60 % in India.
Just as her life turned
around when she was on the verge of
death, so can others —
humans and dogs.
Veterinarian Kate Hurley had a story rattling
around in her brain: She had read about a campaign to reduce mistakes resulting in
death and harm, not in veterinary hospitals, but in
human hospitals.
As an all
around lover of animals, my mother will absolutely cry over her pets» illnesses and
deaths, before she would ever shed a tear over a
human being.
Because in this world,
death is a constant presence and the black pacts which you make with forces beyond
human comprehension will forever haunt all those
around you.
Because in the frontier world of Hard West,
death is a constant presence and the black pacts which you make with forces beyond
human comprehension will forever haunt all those
around you.
Here a toy train hauls carts of tiny blue counter gadgets as it moves
around the installation, which, according to Kent, serves to remind the viewer of Germany's enormous «railway system, which was built for coal but also took a vast number of
humans to their
death.»
Animals become
humans under the watchful eye of the moon;
humans become augmented creatures under the precise knife of the surgeon, and love,
death and rebirth cycle constantly
around us.
Ernesto Bautista works on sculpture, installation and video works and he is deeply conscious of the violence,
death and war
around him and feels compelled to investigate the essential meaning of
human existence and life.
Around 10 percent of all Inbox replies are apparently automatically generated, which is either a very good thing, or a worrying indicator of the looming
death of genuine
human interaction.