Sentences with phrase «meaningless lives in»

This movie begins with the smoldering remains of the battle that followed, while a bureaucratic voice, Ebony Maw (Tom Vaughan - Lawlor), intones how the defeated should rejoice at falling before Thanos; that it's an honor to lose their meaningless lives in this way.

Is it not at least equally likely that if you keep telling people that they lead meaningless lives in a meaningless universe you might just find yourself with — at best — a vacuous life and a hollow culture?

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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.»

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.»

But if life has no meaning, your murder & my rotting in jail is meaningless.

(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.

«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.

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.

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».

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.

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.

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.

Not being one of the few whomever saw the «80s band Fishbone live in concert I suspect that my commentary as follows could be considered meaningless.

So unless you believe in a magical carpenter and itinerant preacher from 2000 years ago you will lead nothing but a hopeless meaningless life filled with nothingness and despair.

Here «transcendence» is always and everywhere synonymous with the abstract, the empty, the meaningless, the past, the distant, and the dead in everlasting opposition to and separation from the concrete, the significant, the present, the near at hand, and the living.4

The emptiness of isolated existence and the meaningless of a life that has no goals besides individual gain opens people to accept the authority of those who promise answers in exchange for conformity and obedience.

In which case I see three choices: get on with the party and live it up because this is it, blow your brains out since your life is meaningless, or try to be the fittest and decimate those around you (One with the most toys wins).

Even when we see someone who feels that his life is meaningless and as a result contemplates and may even commit suicide, there remains that hidden sense of meaning — for to be a suicide is to say that at least in this way, if in no other, I may act out meaningfully what I think is worth doing.

Although they will in their future life be confronted with handicaps, sometimes very severe, their future prospects and their actual experienced quality of life can not be predicted with such certainty at birth that their lives can be regarded as hopeless or meaningless («quality of life judgments» as such being unacceptable in this decision making).

In suicide he attempts «to give a final human meaning to a life which has become humanly meaningless.»

Desperate for answers, I turned to the most melancholy parts of the Bible I could find: David's grief - stricken psalms; Ecclesiastes, in which the writer declares that life is meaningless; and Lamentations, written in the form of a funeral dirge.

Would all of the great landmarks in your life suddenly become meaningless?

If man and rabbit are the same, both meaningless life forms in a meaningless world, why is it ok to kill a rabbit, but not a man?

One of my favorite atheist behaviors is to deny that there's any goal or purpose or meaning in life, and to challenge us to «be strong enough to put that archaic stuff behind you», and then they claim life isn't meaningless, though, b / c they can create their own meaning!

Without Christ, man is meaningless; without man, all life besides is meaningless; without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness in their being.

In my opinion, if a question doesn't directly better somebody's life in a significant way, it's meaninglesIn my opinion, if a question doesn't directly better somebody's life in a significant way, it's meaninglesin a significant way, it's meaningless.

For some scientists, continuing absorption in the laboratory may be a sign of total dedication to their work; for others it may be in part an escape from impoverished human relationships or a drab and meaningless everyday life.

We find ourselves living in an otherwise meaningless universe where there are no absolutes and nothing is certain.

In a world without God, our lives are as meaningless as a housefly.

Otherwise the assertion of the love and forgiveness of God is meaningless, for in Jesus» thought love and forgiveness are not ideas but are real events in the life in time of concrete men

Your reply to Butters states»... In a world without God, our lives are as meaningless as a housefly.

We also know that life is meaningless, yet we continue with our lives as if we're doing something important in the universe.

And men and women whose lives had been empty and meaningless became, in his presence, suddenly aware of the beauty of God, and what had been a form of death became life everlasting.

But this would be meaningless if the significance of the death of Christ rested only on the interpretation placed upon it by the disciples and were not even in the life of Jesus related as an act to his resurrection»)

There are two possible conclusions: Either true freedom is impossible, in which case life is meaningless and the world is designed to frustrate human desire; or, true freedom will be realized in a future Kingdom of Christ, when Ego will be finally overthrown.

if not having god in your life means a meaningless life well again all i see is a less then true love of life and a yearning for death.

as Keller pointed out: if one claims to live in an existence that is — from inception — meaningless, then ALL of life is meaningless.

Deception is evil and Satan is existed in your whole life that through our obedience to the government we serve make the sacrifice from YWHY putting his child through death for our sake meaningless.

We should all be grateful to live in a country where free speech is protected — whether it's Dan Cathy's comments on gay marriage or a protestor's homemade sign — and we must be wary of victimizing ourselves over something like this lest we render the word «persecution» meaningless.

«Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life can not possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.»