I have worked with many expressions
of human pain.
Sensitive and disturbing, Through and Felt, a group exhibition curated by Atlanta artist Iman Person, exposes private moments
of human pain and explores the body and mind through video, photography, performance, installation and sculpture.
This trend in consumer behavior has caused the framing market to shrink, robbed it of millions of sales opportunities, and generated a tremendous amount
of human pain and suffering.
With medicinal marijuana becoming increasingly accepted for treatment and control
of human pain, it's not much of a stretch to imagine how it might benefit animals as well.
The metabolism of drugs in dogs and cats can differ from that in humans, which means that the standard dose
of human pain reliever included in one tablet or capsule may be an overdose for your pet.
Closeness to God, not the alleviation
of human pain in itself, was the preferred religious product.»
It included extremities
of human pain; but it was not the only sort of ordeal that overtakes humankind.
The infinite variety
of human pain can not be redeemed by the application of twelve simple steps.
Lord Jesus, you who are the Saviour of our human activity because you bring us a motive for acting, and the Saviour
of our human pain because you endow it with a life - giving value: be also the Saviour of our human unity by compelling us to repudiate all our pettiness and, relying on you, to venture forth on to the uncharted ocean of charity.
Not exact matches
It's just a part
of the
human condition that we learn best when we fail -
pain and disappointment causes us to re-evaluate and search for the better way.
After enduring growing
pains, healthcare.gov has rebounded and has enrolled 12.7 million users, according to the U.S. Department
of Health and
Human Services.
The Primary Care business is comprised
of human pharmaceutical products prescribed by primary - care physicians and includes products in the areas
of Alzheimer's, cardiovascular (excluding pulmonary arterial hypertension), erectile dysfunction, genitourinary, major depressive disorder,
pain, respiratory, and smoking cessation.
Loss Aversion As I've written in the past,
humans are programmed, through millenniums
of adaption, to suffer
pain twice as much as we enjoy gain.
As
humans, we're wired in a way that avoiding
pain is much more important to our survival than gaining pleasure is (most
of the time, anyways!).
We're just open to experiencing the love, loss,
pain, laughter and joy — the emotional truths
of being
human.
Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every
human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense
of gods as we understand them After many centuries
of religious domination, enforced through
pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.
The trillions
of lifeforms that have gone extinct before us, the billions
of humans that have died, are dying, and will die in
pain and agony.
Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real
human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity
of wild animals in zoos, and in
pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction
of members
of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.
Even a thousand years
of pain is more than any
human being could inflict.
Jose, there is no
pain beyond
human strength to bear, but some people will give up or deflect their
pain instead
of facing it.
If you believe in God / Christ, then you have peace that no more suffering,
pain, death, bickering among
humans, corruption, death, and all
of mankinds evil deeds, etc. etc. will exist when you exit this earth.
the answer to that is the incarnation itself, that Christ would take upon himself humanity and the
pains and struggles
of the
human condition, including the
pains of death.
We all do things, big and small, that hurt our fellow
human beings; and we are all in need
of a savior to heal the brokenness from which this
pain flows.
I have argued that a fully developed «theology
of the finite» must accept and affirm both the pleasure and the
pain of human physicality, since we are not free - floating spirits or intellects but embodied persons.
With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face
of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so
human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our
pain.
But both Ike and I have experienced the new creation as a club that can be used, often with the best
of intentions, to assault our
human truths and cause lies,
pain and sometimes even death.
Only God finally can dissolve the ambiguities and
pains of human sexuality.
Rather, it is God himself working in us and through us; and our exertions, with their attendant
pains, if there be any, are simply our
human reactions to, and sensations
of, the divine working: ultimately, it is God who is praying, not we ourselves.
Christmas Oratorio, W. H. Auden pictures the
human being forsaken in a blank, fathomless universe: We are afraid
Of pain but more afraid of silence; for.
Of pain but more afraid
of silence; for.
of silence; for...
In this kind
of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths
of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix
of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the
pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its
human creatures inflict upon it.
Humans have brought the
pain and suffering
of sickness, violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts against God.
It was his conviction that the Christian must always contemplate wars with mental
pain and that «if any one either endures or thinks
of them without mental
pain, his is a more miserable plight still, for he thinks himself happy because he has lost all
human feeling.»
This participation
of God in
human pain is characterized by the New Testament as the passion
of Jesus symbolized in his crucifixion.24
Such rootlessness protects its subject from
human demands even as it exposes him to the
pains of homelessness.
I was thinking
of how much
pain is inflicted on a
human body by burning, and wondering if a loving god would really allow that to happen to anyone, regardless
of what they had done on earth.
If it is truly the task
of Christians to play the role
of spokesman for the oppressed, witness for the forgotten, then they must be so concerned about
human misery that they take
pains to discover the really lost before its too late.
«we can live right now in a way to alleviate some
of that groaning and ease the
pain that the
human plunge into sin has caused.»
The mystical exaltation
of violence at the hands
of Hitler and
of all modern revolutionaries makes people forget that violence means bloodshed, means
human beings screaming in
pain and fear.
We observe that evil has no boundaries — the very existence
of torture, and the fact that
human rights organisations believe that over 80 %
of the world's governments practice some form
of it, shows that
humans are not just content to be a little bit evil, but are most willing to be CREATIVELY evil, concocting new ways to inflict
pain and suffering onto others.
All
human beings know the
pain of rejection,
of being unwanted.
Also, we normally focus on the eternal penalties
of sin, because they are the most important, but Scripture indicates temporal penalties are real and go back to the first sin
humans committed: «To the woman he said, «I will greatly multiply your
pain in childbearing; in
pain you shall bring forth children (Gen. 3:16).
It is prepared to trust itself to one
of the most notoriously unreliable features
of human existence — not only the
pain and riskiness
of human gestation and childbirth, but also the whole
of human skittishness about male honor, and the potential for violence that goes with female dependency.
So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into,
of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years
of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era
of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the
pain and the blood
of the innocent.
Humor, on the other hand, is born from an altogether higher recognition: that tragic contradiction is not absolute, that finitude is not only
pain and folly, and that the absurdity
of our
human contradictions can even be a cause for joy.
That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off
of a perversion
of the doctrine
of total depravity that not only teaches that
human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects
of god's wrath, worthy
of nothing more than eternal torture,
pain, violence, and abuse.
This does not mean that Christian Scientists deny the intensity
of the
human experience
of disease and
pain.
Perhaps I'm so afraid
of pain, simply because I'm
human.
Thirdly, mission is a task
of consolation, because every
human pain is our
pain, every
human life is important and the church is there to commit itself in the name
of God to suffer with those who suffer and to weep with those who weep.
As the most intimate
of all
human relationships, as the one that to the majority
of people is the most central and precious, the one giving the most joy - as well as the most
pain - does it not contain enormous theological potential?
The love
of God becomes more substantive; more palpable; the distortions and
pains which plague
human existence less necessary and authoritative.