Sentences with phrase «of meaningless life»

The dramatic content of these works revolves around a moral core: a moral problem, a failure, an act of dishonor or betrayal, a vague sense of a meaningless life.

They see some who have turned to alcohol or other drugs to ease the emptiness and despair of a meaningless life.

Not exact matches

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

It connotes the passage of time; the fleeting moments that make up our memories at the end of our lives; but most importantly, it conveys just how meaningless any gifts would be compared to the gift the Polziecs gave the Gerstens.

If the point of the journey is just to be on a journey, then everyone's life is just as meaningful / meaningless and we are still left with no one having meaning in their lives.

When a teenager kills himself and leaves a suicide note stating that the reason he did it is because life is meaningless (the ultimate logical and honest conclusion of atheism), why do we not utilize the same «logic» and blame atheism?

For those who see prayer as meaningless, is it not because that they have no recognition of a Creator, a Supreme Being who made the universe with all life.

@TG: «For those who see prayer as meaningless, is it not because that they have no recognition of a Creator, a Supreme Being who made the universe with all life.

So with our revised definition of meaning, most decisions you make are meaningless, meaning most of your life is meaningless.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

This philosophy sees life as a meaningless absurdity, a succession of moments of decision into which no hope enters to provide expectations of a better tomorrow.

Seeking these things as more important than the things of God will lead to an empty and meaningless life.

Although they may see all the «isms» you mentioned as meaningless to their own lives and those of their loved ones; or even as something they have grown out of.

And, too, they could be doing this for living people on the other side of the world and if that living person is not an active participant in it then it too is meaningless.

we must know that spring will come, that we will be blessed by the sight of life's wellness or else we would have no place to go or to endure — environment and the circumstances of life would be meaningless and ever fleeting to us.

The Coen's common tack of forcing the audience to confront the possibility of nihilism being true, of human life being essentially meaningless, which for them has usually played out within a crime drama, here occurs in a mundane set of events.

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

So believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life WITHOUT walking in love, making a difference, helping others, etc, is meaningless, unless of coarse you are on your death bed or are physically unable to «labor».

Yet Renée exerts a mysterious attraction over Paloma, a twelve - year old daughter of privilege haunted by the meaningless lives led by her family members and who is somewhat whimsically plotting her own suicide.

contrasted... with the mere imitation in the world of transition,» and the other in which he «called for life and motion to rescue forms from a meaningless void» (MT 97).

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

And not only this, but that they have recognized that the very thing which was leading me to despair — the meaningless absurdity of life — is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.»

Not being one of the few whomever saw the «80s band Fishbone live in concert I suspect that my commentary as follows could be considered meaningless.

The emptiness of isolated existence and the meaningless of a life that has no goals besides individual gain opens people to accept the authority of those who promise answers in exchange for conformity and obedience.

Even when we see someone who feels that his life is meaningless and as a result contemplates and may even commit suicide, there remains that hidden sense of meaning — for to be a suicide is to say that at least in this way, if in no other, I may act out meaningfully what I think is worth doing.

It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life... Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: «You are accepted.

Although they will in their future life be confronted with handicaps, sometimes very severe, their future prospects and their actual experienced quality of life can not be predicted with such certainty at birth that their lives can be regarded as hopeless or meaningless («quality of life judgments» as such being unacceptable in this decision making).

Calling both relationships the same thing renders the differences between the two types of relationships meaningless including an opposite sex couple's ability to create new life.

Desperate for answers, I turned to the most melancholy parts of the Bible I could find: David's grief - stricken psalms; Ecclesiastes, in which the writer declares that life is meaningless; and Lamentations, written in the form of a funeral dirge.

Would all of the great landmarks in your life suddenly become meaningless?

One of my favorite atheist behaviors is to deny that there's any goal or purpose or meaning in life, and to challenge us to «be strong enough to put that archaic stuff behind you», and then they claim life isn't meaningless, though, b / c they can create their own meaning!

Finally, one looks at themselves, and sees no soul or spirit, yet spends countless hours trying to prove the validity of the thought that when they die their lives will be meaningless and of no eternal consequence.

Without Christ, man is meaningless; without man, all life besides is meaningless; without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness in their being.

For some scientists, continuing absorption in the laboratory may be a sign of total dedication to their work; for others it may be in part an escape from impoverished human relationships or a drab and meaningless everyday life.

Otherwise the assertion of the love and forgiveness of God is meaningless, for in Jesus» thought love and forgiveness are not ideas but are real events in the life in time of concrete men

And men and women whose lives had been empty and meaningless became, in his presence, suddenly aware of the beauty of God, and what had been a form of death became life everlasting.

But this would be meaningless if the significance of the death of Christ rested only on the interpretation placed upon it by the disciples and were not even in the life of Jesus related as an act to his resurrection»)

There are two possible conclusions: Either true freedom is impossible, in which case life is meaningless and the world is designed to frustrate human desire; or, true freedom will be realized in a future Kingdom of Christ, when Ego will be finally overthrown.

if not having god in your life means a meaningless life well again all i see is a less then true love of life and a yearning for death.

as Keller pointed out: if one claims to live in an existence that is — from inception — meaningless, then ALL of life is meaningless.

the point here: if so (as many of your referenced speakers do above), it is logically inconsistent to claim the fundamental nature of existence is meaningless (lacking any significance) yet our personal lives are significant.

Living without hope of future joy and enrichment reduces man to a piece of meaningless protoplasm.»

It's simply what I do; for my life is meaningless, and I feel just a tad bit better judging the mistakes and flaws of others.

We should all be grateful to live in a country where free speech is protected — whether it's Dan Cathy's comments on gay marriage or a protestor's homemade sign — and we must be wary of victimizing ourselves over something like this lest we render the word «persecution» meaningless.

«Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life can not possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.»

15 The Future The status of the human embryo is essentially a matter of human rights, and thus can not be seen in isolation: life itself is a fundamental right without which all other rights become meaningless.

How tragic it would be to live a whole life focusing on mundane, meaningless things, and look back at the end of life and realize you've lived a wasted it.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

not believing in god makes JANE»S life meaningless, lol do nt speak of the meaningfulness of others lives based on something so trivial

They don't know why He came and they are just ignorantly preoccupied with the meaningless things of life.