According to Wikipedia, Joseph would be, in the Catholic tradition, «the unofficial patron against doubt and hesitation, as well as the patron saint of fighting communism, and
of a happy death.»
When you think
of Happy Death Day as more of a coming - of - age teen film than an outright horror movie, the merits are more clear.
Blumhouse Productions, the predominantly horror movie studio which sometimes whiffs and other times knocks grand slams with its horror movies (but always does so on a budget designed to maximize profit) is the home
of Happy Death Day.
On the surface the film seems to follow in the footsteps
of Happy Death Day in trying to put a new spin on Groundhog's Day.
It's even stranger given that its legacy has been haunting lesser pretenders in the past year from the incompetent shlock of Wish Upon to the snappy, if throwaway, slashery
of Happy Death Day.
Despite its sometimes bloody content, the mood
of Happy Death Day is remarkably sappy, aimed at the broadest possible audience for a film of its genre.
Not exact matches
Now, here's a
happy story: A combination
of better screening, investments in drug research, and better lifestyle choices (including declines in cigarette smoking) may have helped lead to a downtick in the rate
of cancer drug
deaths.
This image
of the
happy warrior — who draws not just comfort, but delight from his cause — was invoked often following NDP leader Jack Layton's
death in 2011.
The fear
of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full
of happy choirs
of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment
of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the
death of friends and family are so painful.
I may be Catholic, but I'm not a maniac about it, runs their unofficial subtext — meaning: I'm
happy to take credit for enlightened Catholic positions on the
death penalty / social justice / civil rights, but
of course I don't believe in those archaic teachings about divorce / homosexuality / and above all birth control.
I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face
of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were
happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face
of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life
of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning
of family...
While I will not openly celebrate the
death of any living being, I am certainly
happy that this one is gone.
We don't require hope
of some glorious life after
death in the presence
of some God, we're quite
happy with what we believe we have.
«9 In 1876 Melville, in describing the
happy domestic scene
of a mother and child, remarked, «Under such scenes abysses be — / Dark quarries where few care to pry.10 Perhaps he remembered that day not ten years before when his own eldest son, 18 years old, shot himself to
death in his room at home.
For we all are gathered round the cross
of the Crucified, whether we look up to him or try to look past him, whether we are at the moment quite gay and
happy (this is not forbidden) or frightened to
death.
@WASP Ok first off I am not scared
of death If I died right now I would be
happy to die and go meet GOD face to face and if you do nt believe in GOD thats fine you will burn in hell but i will pray for you that you will come into the light ad see that HE is real and that you can be saved from an eternal fire that is absolutely real
With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud,
happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field
of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest
of noble
deaths.
It makes us sound ignorant and really we should be thinking about all
of those who are lost their live in the incident or serving as troops I'm not saying that Osama's
death is bad, because personally I am quite
happy about this, but we didn't act the right way about his
death.
I'm not saying that Osama Bin Laden's
death is bad because personally I am quite
happy about it, but I do think that we could have handled the situation better instead
of taking it too far.
The Americans (mainly New Yorkers) are
happy of the
death of Bin Ladden because
of what Al - Qaeda done to New York on September 11.
Who but a madman or a prophet — or an artist who sees more deeply into things than the rest
of us — would have imagined, as Percy did in a 1971 novel, that state governments might recognize a right to die, and that arrangements would be made for the sick and elderly to push a button that would waft them away into a «
happy death» in Michigan, a «joyful exitus» in New York, or a «luanalu - hai» in Hawaii?
A reasonable Darwinian objection to the pursuit
of happiness that ends only in
death being natural is that there's no explanation for members
of one species alone not being hardwired, in effect, to be
happy by doing what comes naturally.
This is confusing at best, can be especially harmful to children, who hurt terribly over the
death of a loved one, but are told that they should be
happy for them instead
of being sad, as if being sad was selfish.
John Fanestil is a native
of San Diego and the author
of Mrs. Hunter's
Happy Death: Lessons on Living from People Preparing to Die (Doubleday).
I am convinced that if such programmes are augmented by the vision presented by the Theology
of the Body such as that put forward in «Called to Love» by Carl Anderson and Father Jose Granados, then Catholic children will not only be better able to resist the false attractions
of the Culture
of Death and the nihilistic philosophies
of modern youth culture, they will also go on to live more complete and
happier lives.
It's not a
happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act
of symbolic communication
of a kind that early Christian saints went to their
deaths as martyrs rather than commit.
Of courses, there's no contemporary accounts of the life of Jesus, just stuff written well after his death, and there's certainly no evidence that he was raised from the dead, but if believing a myth makes you happy, then good for yo
Of courses, there's no contemporary accounts
of the life of Jesus, just stuff written well after his death, and there's certainly no evidence that he was raised from the dead, but if believing a myth makes you happy, then good for yo
of the life
of Jesus, just stuff written well after his death, and there's certainly no evidence that he was raised from the dead, but if believing a myth makes you happy, then good for yo
of Jesus, just stuff written well after his
death, and there's certainly no evidence that he was raised from the dead, but if believing a myth makes you
happy, then good for you.
«It's crazy,» Audrey had said to Theo shortly before her
death, «but I'd be perfectly
happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest
of my life.»
So unhappy and so hopeless
of any
happy outcome
of life is he that he welcomes
death as a glad release.
As for comfort, when we seek it, I can imagine none greater than the
happy knowledge that when I see the
death of a child I do not see the face
of God, but the face
of His enemy.
I am at total peace, I am more
happy then I have ever been and I know my time here is extremely precious and the notion
of fear,
death and god is all but a bad memory.
When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is in it for me, to give up my grudges and learn to diffuse hatred with love, to stop judging other people once and for all, to care for the poor and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me
happy, to give up my urge to gossip and manipulate, to worry less about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no matter the cost, to be capable
of forgiving to the point
of death, to live as Jesus lived and love as Jesus loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.
While Dr. Alice von Hildebrand is best known for promoting the work
of her late husband, Dietrich — the eminent anti-Nazi philosopher who barely escaped
death under Hitler — her personal story, as revealed in a new autobiography, Memoirs
of a
Happy Failure, is very powerful in itself.
That a
death may be a «
happy» one, however, is sometimes suggested by the circumstances surrounding it and by the sense
of possibility inherent in its ambiguity.
You actually prove his point by the way, he said people go to religion because
of their fear
of death and religion tells a variety
of tales as to what happens when we die which often make people, as you say «
happy to know they will go to Heaven» and yet has no proof
of an afterlife.
And our little son Johann is also well and
happy again; the wife
of Augustine Schurf is well too; and finally Margaret von Mochau, against all expectations, escaped
death.
«Weary
of self and laden with my sin, I look to heaven and long to enter in...» So runs one
of the most popular
of those hymns; and there were many more which in one way or another focused on
death as release from this life into one which was painted as inevitably a
happier state.
This included visiting the sick, «helping them prepare either for a fruitful life or a
happy death,» but it also had as its objective becoming «acquainted with the state
of all our people as fully as we can..., for if we know not the temperament or disease, we are likely to prove but unsuccessful physicians.»
this website makes me sooooo
happy that i ditched my 1950s diet
of death.
The kind that when you have to wake up at 3:30 am to get to the airport on time — THEY came to the rescue and made your very - early - hardly - any - sleep morning quite
happy or that other time you took a 6 am road trip to your favourite city seven hours away and knew you couldn't count on rest stops to fuel you and you'd probably die a slow
death of malnourishment instead
of being
happy you're going on an adventure — they came to your rescue!
February is American Heart Month and with that I'm
happy to share that the Hass Avocado Board and the American Heart Association (AHA) have joined efforts in encouraging Americans to eat the daily recommended amounts
of fruits and vegetables to prevent and limit
deaths from cardiovascular diseases, strokes and diabetes.
Time
of Death: We were but 103 seconds away from a second consecutive Vikings tie, but they just haaaaaad to kick a game - winning field goal because they don't care about what makes the rest
of us
happy.
Everyone's
happy place is different, but on my
death bed, I'm sure that the memory
of a two - year - old screaming «BAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH - Moutemoutemoutemoutemoutemoutemoute!!!»
What??? Nobody on here screaming Wenger should go, Arsenal are crap, sick to
death of paying good money to watch rubbish, week in week out??? We won the most important fixture in our season, and we won it well... Be
happy Gooners!!!!
The four - hole aggregate is a
happy medium between the cutthroat intensity
of a sudden -
death playoff and the long slog
of an 18 - hole rematch.
Afterward he recalled his sudden -
death field goal that ended pro football's longest game on Christmas Day 1971, then said, «But this is the
happiest day
of my life.»
At 1 p.m., Assemblyman Luis R. Sepulveda, Bronx Community Board 6 members and other government officials hold a news conference to mark this month's 24th anniversary
of the
deaths of 87 people in an early Sunday, March 25, 1990, arson fire at the
Happy Land Social Club Inc.; Southern Boulevard and Tremont Avenue, the Bronx.
Their brief relationship was one
of the
happiest periods in their often tumultuous lives but was tragically cut short by Wollstonecraft's
death in childbirth.
The Nigerian style
of personality is deeply drawn to high value for education yet it is oiled with enduring mindset for corruption and crushing income inequality.The Nigerian style
of personality appears formed within, between and around religious violence, dire health concerns, devastating poverty, ailing institutions, and
death - designed roads; yet this style
of personality appears
happy both in mood and spirit.
Her supporters say that's not credible.There has been an outcry in the US over this suspicious
death in custody - just one
of the many recent
deaths of African Americans in custody or on the streets at the hands
of trigger -
happy local police officers.