Sentences with phrase «something about existence»

There's something about existence you're just not getting?

The indistinguishable human desire for meaning, for purpose, to mater, tells us something about existence.

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But in order to say anything useful about ethical issues in the marketplace, you first need to understand something about how markets work, how they fail, and what the ethical argument for their existence is.

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

There is something literally death - defying about the contemporary opposition to cigarettes, a kind of rage that anyone would not choose 2.2 years of «healthy» life over a somewhat shortened and pleasurable existence, a resolute resistance to the intimations of death with which our ancestors knew how to live, and not only when they lit up.

And those that don't say that stuff instead opting to argue and dissect and article or argument for / about god doesn't show they make any positive claims to the existence of such a being, but instead to show how ridiculous and irrational somethings are.

It is a damn shame that we here arguing about something neither of us can prove, (the existence of God).

One insight provided by Hartshorne's work on the ontological argument is that the concept of the existence of God is something akin to a regulative idea for the rational thought about reality which is attempted in Hartshorne's metaphysics.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

It is not merely something interesting or obscure that is told him about this beginning, but what and only what constitutes the very foundation of his own existence as a life in God's presence.

In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.

Most of the time, however, we simply take our creaturely worth as something granted and given; we may not think about it much if at all, yet it is the basis for our existence.

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

It must mean also that there is something about Socratic existence which calls for this expansion into a larger whole with a changed center.

If Philip Larkin's fine words about An Arundel Tomb (that what remains after death is our loving) are the truth — and something deep in human existence affirms that they are — then what matters most of all about any one of us is the way in which and the degree to which we are enabled to contribute, however imperfectly this must seem to us, to the delight of God and the implementation of God's will and way in the world.

The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have to be said about the specifically human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our relation to our own and other people's freedom.

you've obviously been convinced of Lucifer's existence — I guess that's something to be said about your religion.

Yet something may be said in a purely suggestive way to indicate that our commonsense inability to allow «place» for the new existence of souls is based on the limitations of our imagination and not on any knowledge we posssess about space and time.

In a later chapter I shall have something to say about them, although I shall emphasize that they belong to the realm which our ancestors used to describe as «a religious hope» rather than to the realm of verifiable experience or the realm of concrete Christian existence as we are called to share it.

For the objectivity of modern historiography consists precisely in one's openness for the encounter, one's willingness to place one's intentions and views of existence in question, i.e. to learn something basically new about existence and thus to have one's own existence modified or radically altered.

I shall then say something again about human existence in the light of Christology; and I shall conclude with the question of human destiny.

The simultaneous existence of good and hard in our lives is something we all know to be true, but it is so rare to see it talked about vulnerably by leaders.

Apparently they are planning to make a definitive statement of its existence at a press conference in March, something I am mightily excited about.

My own writing about religion grew out of the fundamental question raised by the new situation: Is religion something that may or may not be very important to humans, or must it in some way integrate all other aspects of existence?

You'd think between the existence of over 700,000 words in the Bible and the testimony of nature we could know at least something about faith.

Just as the discovery that sodium chloride has properties not exhibited by sodium and chlorine in isolation tells us something about the nature of sodium and chlorine which we could not otherwise know, so too the existence of subjectivity in combinations of atoms that make human brains tells us something about the nature of those atoms that make those brains.

In the very here of our existence there may be the there of blessedness; and if perhaps something is added about what happens after that, it is no contradiction of what happens now, here, in this present moment of our Christian belonging.

Because God is something more than just natural existence, it leaves room for Process theologians to speak about there being real values, like love and justice, existent in the universe, even though they don't exist materially.

Second, does the comic vision, comic storytelling, tell us something about the possibilities of historical existence itself?

fact [fakt] something known to be true: something that can be shown to be true, to exist, or to have happened truth or reality of something: the truth or actual existence of something, as opposed to the supposition of something or a belief about something piece of information: a piece of information, e.g. a statistic or a statement of the truth

To argue heatedly about something no one really knows the answer to is ridicluous and that is the ultimate nature of existence, it's all opinion or «faith» if you will.

There are ways to find connection and meaning in life without believing in something that's existence is about as proven as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy.

If the Church proclaims the truth about human existence, then literature, according to Aristotle's definition, must also reflect something of this reality.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Are The Transfer Market trying to communicate something about their own existence?

Firmino's number change, the t - shirt shop copyright battle, the mere existence of Michael Owen, and there's always something brewing about the ticket prices being too damn high.

It's easier, of course, to deny the existence of hunger than it is to do something about it, and when «doing something» means increasing federal spending, you can be sure that there will be those on the far right who will look for every justification not to.

Why had officials and advisers assumed the existence of numerical targets for chucking people out of Britain was something the home secretary would be sufficiently comfortable about not to have to ensure the details were brought to her attention and formally approved?

«The NPP can not be underestimated, they have been in existence for a long time and they have been changing their name to this point, the nature of who they are, what they are and where they come from is something they are happy about and if they will be there for a long time.»

One more thing about Malcolm Smith: isn't this the same Malcolm Smith who threatened to redistrict the Republicans out of existence, or something to that effect back when the Democrats held the majority?

Many people find dark matter's existence very strange and ask how it can possibly be that most matter — about six times the amount we see — is something we can't detect with conventional telescopes.

I am completely in love with that idea... though I have no idea how I would cart all of my shoes around, there's something so alluring about a nomadic existence and traveling to whatever country strikes your fancy.

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There's ultimately something oddly hypnotic about Mirage, as filmmaker Hajdu has infused the proceedings with a deliberate and visually sumptuous feel that's heightened by the mystery surrounding the central character's very existence (ie who is he?

But more than anything, it was about his affection for the Permissions and key employee Ken Alexander, and his desire to do something to ensure California Typewriter's continued existence.

The movie is saying something worth hearing about the place the future holds, the concept and promise of it, in human existence.

But there's something oddly compelling about their unique existences as notable entries in what now could be considered prestigious filmographies.

Where the Tucks sought to hide the spring, they are merely beacons to it, and their very existence only draws attention to the fact that something is different about them and their environment.

If you knew the world was about to end, wouldn't you want to try to do something to halt the inevitable annihilation of everything in existence?