For example, here is a sentence that describes the confusion among the followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple: «Every one of them was steeped in traditional religion, and they left it because they found a group of people that loved them, that gave them more answers, that cared for them, that generated warmth — when all they did was sit in pews and have meaningless things told to them so they could go out and
live meaningless lives.»
I feel stronger and smarter since I've accepted that we're all meaningless animals,
living meaningless lives.
Not exact matches
The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of
life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is
meaningless.»
Life can come to seem
meaningless.»
3) admitting you believe existence to be
meaningless at its core,
meaningless throughout, and yet we are supposed to fabricate meaning & «just get on with it»... not only is that utterly self - contradictory but it sounds like you saying: «yep, just
live life with your head in the sand.»
If it is something not real (that is, it actually is an untrue thing, therefore
meaningless), those in whose behalf it is done do nt know anything, and their
living reletives shouldnt care one way or the other.
«I am saying if there is no
life after death and eventually the sun itself goes out our existence is
meaningless.
To believe with all your heart that everything in
life is ultimately
meaningless and purposeless, but to act like it does have both meaning and purpose is contradictory behavior.
--
Life without an afterlife isn't
meaningless.
Their
lives before the fall were
meaningless and stupid.
It connotes the passage of time; the fleeting moments that make up our memories at the end of our
lives; but most importantly, it conveys just how
meaningless any gifts would be compared to the gift the Polziecs gave the Gerstens.
But if all we
live in is a universe that ultimately has an expiration date, every single thing that we do ultimately is
meaningless.
Living one year or one hundred years is
meaningless without the Lord in our
lives.
I do NOT believe that
life is
meaningless.
Sorry, I kinds missed this:» If it i just to
live and then die and stop existing, I feel that that is
meaningless.
The moment your religious beliefs turn derisive towards others who just want to
live life in peace and happiness, that's the exact moment your beliefs become
meaningless.
If it i just to
live and then die and stop existing, I feel that that is
meaningless.
If the point of the journey is just to be on a journey, then everyone's
life is just as meaningful /
meaningless and we are still left with no one having meaning in their
lives.
If it is
meaningless, then there is nothing for which to
live.
When a teenager kills himself and leaves a suicide note stating that the reason he did it is because
life is
meaningless (the ultimate logical and honest conclusion of atheism), why do we not utilize the same «logic» and blame atheism?
For those who see prayer as
meaningless, is it not because that they have no recognition of a Creator, a Supreme Being who made the universe with all
life.
@TG: «For those who see prayer as
meaningless, is it not because that they have no recognition of a Creator, a Supreme Being who made the universe with all
life.
«If I
live in a world that has no meaning beyond my own biography, my own personal pains and joys, I will experience an emptiness that always threatens to render even my most joyous moments «
meaningless.»
They see some who have turned to alcohol or other drugs to ease the emptiness and despair of a
meaningless life.
But if
life has no meaning, your murder & my rotting in jail is
meaningless.
So with our revised definition of meaning, most decisions you make are
meaningless, meaning most of your
life is
meaningless.
With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made
meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a
living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.
I'm sorry if their feelings are
meaningless to you, or that you somehow need more to give your
life meaning.
This philosophy sees
life as a
meaningless absurdity, a succession of moments of decision into which no hope enters to provide expectations of a better tomorrow.
(b) Persons who express feelings about their
lives being empty,
meaningless, worthless or «no longer needed» by anyone may be making suicide threats in disguise.
Seeking these things as more important than the things of God will lead to an empty and
meaningless life.
Although they may see all the «isms» you mentioned as
meaningless to their own
lives and those of their loved ones; or even as something they have grown out of.
«Everything - in - God» tells us that God is not so exalted that he becomes
meaningless to human
life, but rather is operative in the whole creation at every level, moving through it, working upon it, accomplishing the divine goodwill in it.
And, too, they could be doing this for
living people on the other side of the world and if that
living person is not an active participant in it then it too is
meaningless.
we must know that spring will come, that we will be blessed by the sight of
life's wellness or else we would have no place to go or to endure — environment and the circumstances of
life would be
meaningless and ever fleeting to us.
The Coen's common tack of forcing the audience to confront the possibility of nihilism being true, of human
life being essentially
meaningless, which for them has usually played out within a crime drama, here occurs in a mundane set of events.
This is nevertheless a
meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family
life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.
Well then, go right ahead and continue
living your
life believing there is nothing greater than you: that your existence is nothing more than a
meaningless nano - second fart.
So believing in Jesus Christ for eternal
life WITHOUT walking in love, making a difference, helping others, etc, is
meaningless, unless of coarse you are on your death bed or are physically unable to «labor».
Why do you assume that because YOU find
life bleak and
meaningless, we all do?
This post was actually written several years ago when I was indeed going through a very difficult time in my
life, and nearly every top Christian song that hit the radio sounded empty and
meaningless, as if those who wrote them had never experienced any real pain or hardship.
Tell me when you are ready and I will be happy to show you why you are not on this planet by chance, why you were created to be at this time and place for a reason, your
life is not
meaningless... you matter...
@nonono - «Tell me when you are ready and I will be happy to show you why you are not on this planet by chance, why you were created to be at this time and place for a reason, your
life is not
meaningless... you matter...»
Oh and to speak to Sports Worship, a people have their vices and
meaningless distractions but what we need to keep in mind is that our distractions should not shape / run our
lives.
Yet Renée exerts a mysterious attraction over Paloma, a twelve - year old daughter of privilege haunted by the
meaningless lives led by her family members and who is somewhat whimsically plotting her own suicide.
In this infinite perspective,
life is essentially
meaningless!
contrasted... with the mere imitation in the world of transition,» and the other in which he «called for
life and motion to rescue forms from a
meaningless void» (MT 97).
To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of
meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital,
living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine
life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.
you are ignorant if you think atheists think that
life is
meaningless by definition.
And not only this, but that they have recognized that the very thing which was leading me to despair — the
meaningless absurdity of
life — is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.»