Sentences with phrase «meaninglessness of»

The last passage prompts Mark Obbie at LawBeat (Jul. 18) to reflect: «Has there ever been a clearer argument for the utter show - biz meaninglessness of such «debate» shows?»

for further discussion of the meaninglessness of climate model outputs for for forecasting purposes.

The second problem is that this only looks at 10 years of data, which isn't even as much as the 12 years that Dr. Curry used despite admitting the statistical meaninglessness of such noisy data over such a short time period.

Skip the discussion of the meaninglessness of confidence intervals and interpret this interval in its Bayesian sense.

As the political constellation has shifted and as I have become more aware of the meaninglessness of political labels, I have relaxed against my reflexive rejection of the lable of liberal to accept it as a «close - enough» description of my views.

Confusion and division over «global warming» often grows out of the meaninglessness of the phrase on its own.

Candice Jacobs explores the meaninglessness of aspiration within cognitive capital frameworks.Making reference to the seductive use of capital and gender in popular television game shows, Jacobs questions whether our habitual behavioural patterns can be influenced by television programming and the internet, to make us vulnerable to exploitation by global markets and governments.

Outraged by the carnage and immorality of the War, Dadaists were anti-war, anti-art, and determined to ridicule what they considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world.

Mark Salvatus's video installation shows flashes of all the world's currencies suggesting the blur and meaninglessness of subjective value facilitated by paper money.

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.

Vanitas highlights the meaninglessness of earthy life and the tr...

As a retrospective opens at London's Tate Modern, Jonas talks to fellow artist Liam Gillick about magic, revelation and meaninglessness of the word «performance»

And that's what is hard to bear, the meaninglessness of everything.»

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.

It would be tempting to call Lindqvist a philosopher, so relentless are the questions his characters ask about the meaning and the meaninglessness of our existence.

But, hey, you're all intelligent, sophisticated people (I take much for granted), so use this time just to ponder the meaninglessness of nothing and why Ally McBeal is still on the air.

Woody Allen on the meaninglessness of everything; The greatness of «Walk Hard»; Dean Cundey on «The Thing»; R.I.P. B.B. King; Literature should be «triggering.»

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

If Ahab is the paradigm of the new American, we will not have the tolerance for the ambiguity, the irony, the hopelessness, and the meaninglessness of the historic eras that dawn ahead of us.

While they must live and cope with realities of ontological import daily — suffering, love, death, the meaning or meaninglessness of their existence — they do so from an almost exclusively pragmatic and utilitarian perspective.

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

Yet occasionally some unexpected event may strike them with a numbing sense of the meaninglessness of existence.

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.

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?

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.

And there is a kind of cosmic loneliness which makes one feel so lost before the indifference of the universe and the meaninglessness of life that one finds no home for his soul.

We are so far removed from the reality that undergirds our own physical structure that a judgement of the meaninglessness of it all is, well, meaningless.

The «healthy» reaction to what happened to them is anger and rage against the meaninglessness of the universe.

As an American psychiatrist has recently pointed out, Freud was haunted by anxiety about death and the meaninglessness of life.

Every successful advance of the technological revolution has been spun, with little direct opposition, as further evidence of the nominalistic nature of the universe, the individualistic nature of man and the meaninglessness of metaphysics.

But it is the experience of many people I know, as well as me: the apparent meaninglessness of suffering.

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.

Because theological truth and therefore theological language belong to the eschatological dimension, linguistic analysis as now understood and practiced which deals with empirical and historical truths can not decide on the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of theological language.

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

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The result: a patchwork of regulation watered down to the point of meaninglessness.

I can tell you that I'm an Atheist and can tell you that i don't spread a life of meaninglessness.

Of course, when we realize that baptism is NOT required for eternal life, then this entire debate fades away into meaninglessness, but we already talked about this...

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 seems clear that Camus faced the full consequences of death, meaninglessness, and guilt.

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.

We might also note that Nietzsche's higher or Dionysian vision of Eternal Recurrence — which he judged to be the ultimate expression of Yes - saying or total affirmation — can be reached only by passing through a full and total realization of the meaninglessness and chaos of the world or reality as such.

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).

Only through the gift of faith can we know the full reality of guilt and meaninglessness, for only the perspective of the new Adam or the new man of faith has sufficient distance from the old Adam to realize the full weight of brokenness.

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

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

Some begin to find patterns of living that lead them out of chaos and meaninglessness.