Sentences with phrase «meaninglessness in»

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.

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While I appreciate your willingness to admit the meaninglessness of your faith, science has in fact shown us it's value first hand.

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.

In the contemporary world it is impossible to ignore the epidemic of meaninglessness, which produces many of the psychological, psychosomatic, behavioral, and relational problems of those who come seeking help.

It is no exaggeration to say that human beings today experience life in terms of disruption, conflict, self - destruction, meaninglessness and despair in all realms of life.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

Yet others hold that we have to be «heroic» in the face of meaninglessness and face squarely its bleak implications.

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

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

And if for meaninglessness and despair one wants to offer a gospel of purpose and hope, one has to experience — in one's person, and in the corporate person of the church — the «sickness unto death.»

Communist will to work will eventually be dissolved in a sea of 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.

Luther experienced what he described as attacks of utter despair, as the frightful threat of a complete meaninglessness, when belief in his work and message disappeared and no meaning remained.

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In what way does the death of Jesus on the cross answer man's cry to be delivered from meaninglessness and despair?

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 theIn 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 thein Czechoslovakia in the 1980s, brings to light the beauty and the terror of a world where people find meaning despite the general meaninglessness surrounding thein the 1980s, brings to light the beauty and the terror of a world where people find meaning despite the general meaninglessness surrounding them.

Anyone else here with me in the void of utter meaninglessness?

Paul Tillich wrote of the «courage to be» in face of three great onslaughts to our psyche: the anxiety of death, the anxiety of guilt, the anxiety of meaninglessness.

The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.

As in Lycaonia and at Athens, the Christian missionary has first of all to convince his hearers of the meaninglessness and futility of idolatry, idolatry which meant not only the actual worship of images of the gods but also the whole range of pagan religion.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

If it is true that philosophical anxiety — anxiety about death, meaninglessness, and finitude — is a factor in the etiology of alcoholism, then a religious solution makes a unique contribution toward eliminating the causes of alcoholism.

Hacksaw Ridge refuses to shy away from portraying war in all its brutality and meaninglessness.

well... that's too mild a word... maybe «unbearable» is better... i swim in a world of unanswered questions and confusion, and it is the temperature of meaninglessness... somehow i make it from day to day... if you ever want to talk or anything just email me directly (haywardart at gmail dot com)

To the advancing thought involved in this process the moral meaninglessness of the primitive Sheol became intolerable, and between the Testaments we find a change taking place in the descriptions of the underworld itself.

When we humans were primitive thousands of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because of many synthetic products our existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a kind of concern for us to correct some of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect of reality, in the spiritual part of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?

If we discount appeals that had relevance only when considering the claim that Premise X is meaningless or the claim that Premise X is logically false (i.e., Griffin's appeal to the meaninglessness of «X is a powerless actuality» in the first case and to «the definition of «actual being» in the second case), Griffin's text provides nothing in the way of support for the assertion that the metaphysical principle upon which he is relying is correct.

edwardo you are enslaved to the meaninglessness of self worship and you believe in murdering babies.

A theology that is open to the future must first exist in the present, not a present which is an extension of the past, but a present which is a culmination of the past, and hence for us a present which is a moment of vacuity and meaninglessness.

But it is also unmistakable in the story that this deliverance followed only upon the response of faith from within the life of bondage, chaos, and meaninglessness!

It may well be that only the sophisticated — or those who in some lonely moment have felt what Thoreau called «a quiet sense of desperation» — would wish to say that their condition is properly described as compounded of anxiety, meaninglessness, and confusion.

A preference for the freshness and immediacy of experience in reaction to the meaninglessness or venality of traditional faith is hardly new, of course.

We may congratulate ourselves on our achievement, but we have been rather slow in recognizing that in solving the information problem, we created a new problem never experienced before: information glut, incoherence, and meaninglessness.

As commentators from Jacques Ellul to Peter Leithart have pointed out, the Teacher in the book is not concerned so much with «Vanity» or «Meaninglessness» as he is with the evanescence of all things around him.

In the first book he narrates the talk of cardinals» table; they discussed the problems of thieves and meaninglessness of giving death punishment for stealing.

In Altizer, the profane remains throughout a rather passive element that grows only by its association with the sacred, and is of itself pure meaninglessness.

Prisons and jails present in microcosm the challenges confronting the church and the world — racial polarization, economic disparity and poverty, terror and violence, drug and alcohol abuse, personal and family brokenness, isolation and loneliness, anger and meaninglessness and guilt.

But get past the meaninglessness of the proposals and they highlight a very worrying psychological trend, which has afflicted many leading Brexiters in Westminster and Fleet Street.

Here the acting is wooden (puppet wooden), lines spoken too fast (as if to emphasize their meaninglessness), the child characters generally acting like adults, adults acting like children, all running around in a simple story, but even more, after awhile, you realize it is about a bunch sets and objects that look like a kid's dreams of military heroism and futile activities carried out in an oddly precise manner.

The overcomplicated plot is indeed just an excuse to tie together a melange of colorful and hilarious vignettes — the Coen brothers recognize the meaninglessness of the story by showing us in the end that no kidnapping actually occurred.

A lot of movies pontificate on the meaninglessness of revenge without much conviction, reveling in vigilantes acting as our proxies for the indulgence of our worst instincts before paying lip service to law and order.

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.

A silly storyline involving Bacon's estranged wife, who calls his cell phone constantly but refuses to speak, is whittled down to the point of meaninglessness but left in the film nonetheless.

To combat this meaninglessness, Damon argues that students need to find a purpose in life — something meaningful to themselves that also serves the greater good.

Rotherham observes that there are some broadly supported provisions in the administration's waiver package, such as getting rid of NCLB's «highly qualified teacher rules,» which many states «have gamed... to the point of meaninglessness.»

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

I remember a theologian making reference to this book as being very sad and depressing, a sort of portent of the meaninglessness of postmodernity, and I've already got enough sadness in my life, thank you very much, what with Facebook and bloating.

Aaron Poppleton at Pop Matters wrote this week about the critical darling No More Heroes and «The Meaning of Meaninglessness» in said game.

With his choice of the exhibition title, Kiefer dedicates the installation to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline's book «Voyage au bout de la nuit» («Journey to the End of the Night») from 1932, which describes the demise of European humanism in the trenches of World War I. Famous for its gallows humour and world - weary misanthropy, the book is a darkly humorous and grotesque description of the meaninglessness and evil of war.

These artists explore a great many ways of making art, but what characterizes their production is the utmost importance they lend to sensibility and feeling, pushing often even towards the edge of meaninglessness, which is one of the most precious assets we can cultivate in a culture that tends to package any and all activities into sensational or publicizeable instant explanations.