Nothing, some say, turns an atheist into a believer
like the fear of death.
I, being human, do understand it and know of no reason why I should, except on «faith», which itself can not be understood except that it depends on our more primitive instincts
like fear of death.
Not exact matches
She says she no longer has a
fear of death because she feels
like she is using her life well to offer this service and positively disrupt the higher education system.
To «create» a solution out
of pure thin air that can take away his
fear of death, can be something to aspire to be
like in an imperfect world, can provide a promise
of better days to come no matter how hard things are today, even if that time is only after you've died.
And while Jesus,
like Sarpedon, endured the
death of the body, he ultimately was saved from
death at his resurrection: «
Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one.
Like many great books, Rosenzweig's The Star
of Redemption has a stunning first line: «From
death, from the
fear of death arises all knowledge
of the All.»
Fear of death,
like other
fears, may be transformed into anger and expressed in the marriage.
In
fear,
fear of death,
of pain,
of despair,
of fear itself, I have prayed for strength, for hope, for courage, but perhaps
like you I have always felt it foolish to pray that the pain itself would go away, although I have been driven to my knees by the immense force
of several terrible events.
RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and
fear driving you to
death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns
of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full
of compassion and not for black hearted one's
like you who hate all God creations...
First you assume that non-believers are more afraid
of death, which I would
like to hear your reasoning behind, and next you assume
death is everyones worst
fear.
Do you mean to say that simple rules
like «Don't steal — coz you won't
like it if it happens to you», «Don't kill — coz you won't
like it if it happens to you», can only be followed if there is
fear of religion and repercussions after
death?
Originally it was created to dispell
fears of death...
like «oh you'll go to a better place» and to explain things we did nt understand
like why the sun rises and sets.
Mind you I haven't had a cold in a decade, and then within two days I felt
like death and
fear contributed to that, I am undetectable but this is my first bout
of illness after my diagnoses... I was sick.
But now the
fear of death has begun to follow him
like another man's shadow.
There are few things that strike
fear into the heart
of a parent
like sudden infant
death syndrome.
Like a number
of other lawmakers, Lanza
fears that faded memories and the
death of witnesses could impact the due process rights
of those being sued.
We also have tendencies to conform our opinions to those
of the groups we identify with, to
fear man - made risks more than we
fear natural ones, and to believe that events causing dread — the technical term for risks that could result in particularly painful or gruesome
deaths,
like plane crashes and radiation burns — are inherently more risky than other events.
Like most westerners, my image
of North Korea was not a good one: a backward, totalitarian state, gripped by famine and ruled by
fear, and in a state
of uncertainty after the recent
death of its leader Kim Jong - il.
by Walter Chaw Alan Parker
likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner
of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk
of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price
of a culture
of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price
of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy
of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate /
fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the
death penalty (The Life
of David Gale).
Fear rises
like gas from a corpse in Armando Iannucci's brilliant horror - satire The
Death Of Stalin.
Beyond the paranoia,
fear of death, and thinking one brother murdered the other, did you ever think what that movie would be
like if it were funny?
Aside from helping to clarify why some viewers revel in downbeat and sometimes downright disturbing movies
like The Woman, the sentiment also speaks to why many contemporary filmmakers» own
fears and paranoia — about the end
of civilization, or indie cinema — increasingly inspire dark, depressing works emphasizing domestic abuse, apocalyptic angst, religious opposition, the after - effects
of war, suffering, and
death.
Though the thought
of losing her husband terrifies her, Ruth has no
fear of death for herself: «I am not afraid
of dying and I never have been... Perhaps chronic daydreamers don't
fear death because we are used to slipping away... It feels
like arrogance not to
fear death when Simon lives so fearfully close to it» (93 — 94).
Surrounded by the Amis teens he'd met a week ago, he laughed inwardly at their grunts and groans when axes split heads
like melons — Hollywood probably used canteloupe and honeydew — but Roc had seen blood as thick as Log Cabin syrup, smelled
death where the rotting odors forcecd him to smoke a cigar to counter its effect, and tasted the coppery tang
of fear.
Fear of death and other consequences keeps us (most
of us) from doing stupid things
like driving drunk or trying to wrestle a crocodile.
As
Death, the oldest and most
feared of the Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse, you use your acrobatic prowess to explore the world
like you never could as War.
Many games are about learning from mistakes, but the ability to jump right back into battle after
death without the
fear of lost progress means failure rarely feels
like punishment in Cuphead.
Every firefight in this game can be compared to an encounter in a game
like Ninja Gaiden, where
fear of death is possible from regular enemies.
Man's disfigurement comes from his capacity for tragic error, a capacity which has permitted him to garble and to falsify the fact
of death so that
fear of death no longer seems
like the uneasy impulse for all that we do.
The four - part «
Death Hope Life
Fear» (1984), big as an altarpiece, bright as a stained - glass window, has an army
of them, with Gilbert & George soaring upward on either side
like exuberant guardian angels.
Both genres basically tell the same stories as any other genre (stories
of love,
death,
fear, possibility) but I
like the capacity
of sci - fi and horror to discuss big questions in ways that aren't necessarily tethered to everyday vagaries
of life.
Links: May Heatwave Sparks
Fears of Hot Summer in Egypt Egypt Heatwave Kills 42 Japan in Hot Water Earth Nullschool It Felt
Like 165 Degrees in Iran Today Heatwave Mass Casualty Event in Pakistan Heatwave Mass Casualty Event in India Record Japan Heat Leads to 32
Deaths in One Week
But the Guardian has managed to get a laugh out
of me by poking fun at the recent Twitter obsession in the media (represented in the Globe by stories
like Margaret Wente's «Ego Tweeto, Ergo Sum» and Ian Brown's musings that twittering is motivated by a
fear of death) with their story:
She tweeted: «My life is now
like an episode
of House = the impending fight against
death and the look
of fear in everyones faces!»