Sentences with word «meaninglessness»

The sense of meaninglessness of life felt in the rich North too, may be mainly due to unemployment, inadequate housing, breakup of family life, drugs, wasteful consumerism... in spite of social welfare measures, or because of long term dependence on them.

Maybe the digital revolution has simply revealed the tensions in a concept that exploded into meaninglessness long ago.

«I readily confess that as a young man I had to go through the hell of despair over the apparent meaninglessness of life, through total and ultimate nihilism until I could develop an immunity against nihilism.

Going a little deeper than the magnificent gore effects (and the surplus of them) and the expert establishment of tension and peril, the success of Suspiria reaches all the way into collective night and the fear of meaninglessness in the midst of an ephemeral illusion of order.

I realized that I envied the popular Catholic mass because that liturgy, for many, expressed the mystery which makes sense out of life always threatened by meaninglessness.

When he tries to do so, he is both resisted by the outward barriers to his asserted sovereignty and beset within by the sense of meaninglessness which comes from having no correspondence with the health - giving laws of life.

No matter how we start, if we iron out the inconsistencies, and substitute meaning for meaninglessness, we are bound to reach the truth eventually» (RPM 439).1 There are many assumptions in Hartshorne's program.

At their best they are strange meditations on meaninglessness and emptiness.

Religion is humanity's shield against anomie, that experience of absolute meaninglessness that dissolves all values, purpose, and hope.

You are right: atheists only promote meaninglessness and despair..

Man, being reflective, tries to ascribe meaning (not meaninglessness) to his existence.

Because I refuse to accept the complete meaninglessness behind the complete awareness....

Paravidino is no young prophet, but a poseur disguising the general meaninglessness of his wayward youth parable via a tarted up mise - en - scène and a highly attractive cast.

The lemon — once a symbol of both luxury and mortality, of artistic ability and earthly decay, of the sheer might of ever - expanding empires and the ultimate meaninglessness of possessions — it contained all the conflicting dynamics which gave still life paintings their appeal; acting as «vanitas», seducing the senses while reminding the viewer of the transient nature of life.

Similarly, Korean painters independently developed an abstract practice similar to the abstract expressionism that took hold in Post-war U.S., but reflecting a more Confucian approach to the sort of meaninglessness such work is thought to convey, following the Korean war.

Religion takes advantage of our psychological weaknesses, as children to believe in what their parents believe in, or as adults to have something to hold on to because they're guilty, depressed, fear death, fear meaninglessness, or they're addicted to the believer's ecstatic high, or whatever.

Meaninglessness threatens us on every side.

And yet tragedy and despair and meaninglessness also abound, and we must not neglect addressing Ourselves to the human condition.

Without a belief in the existence of God, everything is simply random meaninglessness.

That HE, and we, get thinner and less substantial until we dissolve in cold meaninglessness?

For Johan it is the cynical rejection of politics and the attempt to embrace meaninglessness (the other side of his sentimentality).

Each has found a way of understanding and accepting the saving grace of the other, Johan's refusal to celebrate meaninglessness and Marianne's belief in fellow - feeling.

In a little over two hundred pages, Scruton, who supported underground dissident networks in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s, brings to light the beauty and the terror of a world where people find meaning despite the general meaninglessness surrounding them.

In his Voyage to the Beginning Colin Wilson says that when he was very young he became more clearly aware than ever before that he was faced with a choice between meaninglessness and commitment.

Casting aside every fixed source of meaning and value, Nietzsche passed through an interior dissolution of an established form of consciousness and selfhood, and resurrected a chaos of meaninglessness lying deeply buried within the psyche of Western man.

But when suffering does in fact occur (though not intrinsically justifiable) it is capable of being salvaged from sheer meaninglessness by God's aesthetic care.

Rather, he's a special connection that might steer a life on course, refuting Ellen's sense of her own meaninglessness.

The clichés of the airport - bookstore spy story have been moved around like magnet poetry until they spell out something meaningful about meaninglessness, something about what it means to kill a dying man for a wrong you won't remember in a few years.

It locates the source of religion in the need to control Nature, more specifically to find meaning in the capricious - seeming meaninglessness of the universe.

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaninglessness and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection.

The fact that they cost triple what an anole does quickly becomes meaninglessness when the cost is more than offset by the savings in setup.

At other times the artist forsakes answers in leu of creating an intimate relationship with meaninglessness, making material Baudrillard's observation that «consumer objects are like hysterical symptoms; they are best understood not as a response to a specific need or problem but as a network of floating signifiers that are inexhaustible in their ability to incite desire.»

Another distinction is that Johnson's use of cultural ephemera is self - referential; it seeks to draw on and harness the socio - cultural resonances of media artefacts, not to reveal their inherent meaninglessness.

I could appreciate the coherent identity — or coherent lack of identity — but I found its enforced meaninglessness more frustrating and heavy - handed than cutting.

In this body of work which takes its name from the psychological term for the mind's obsession for finding patterns in random objects, Kohler's investigation with meaning and meaninglessness draws from the excess of cultural waste within this urban landscape.

Mr. Stella's breakthrough «Black Paintings» of 1959 - 60 took the cool, impersonal geometry of Albers's earlier work and turned it into a demonstration of deliberate, aggressive meaninglessness: patterns that did nothing except cover the canvas.

The irony is that by having gone to the trouble necessary to make this piece, Story denies the very meaninglessness he intends to illustrate.

By their expressive autism, Ireland's pieces often disclose less about themselves than about the condition in which they exist: a cultural field so charged with expectation and reference that everything seems possible in it except meaninglessness, true absurdity.

'' [A Conversation with Jung Young Moon] Writing for Skeptics: Navigating Meaninglessness.»

Land gained recognition in the mid 1990s with his simply produced videos — documentations of personal failure and excessive meaninglessness in which the artist is seen tumbling down an endless flight of stairs, repeatedly falling off a ladder while painting or sinking himself in a boot.

Science believes in randomness as the basis of existence, and so with humans doing non-random things, and having a meaning and purpose we perceive to our lives, and taking actions that we understand will lead to desired outcomes, then they have rebelled against humanity for the sake of their randomist meaninglessness ideology.

In scientific terms — by which I mean testable hypotheses — the Drake equation is really meaninglessness.