Sentences with phrase «with meaninglessness»

At other times the artist forsakes answers in leu of creating an intimate relationship with meaninglessness, making material Baudrillard's observation that «consumer objects are like hysterical symptoms; they are best understood not as a response to a specific need or problem but as a network of floating signifiers that are inexhaustible in their ability to incite desire.»

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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.

When he tries to do so, he is both resisted by the outward barriers to his asserted sovereignty and beset within by the sense of meaninglessness which comes from having no correspondence with the health - giving laws of life.

In some respects, then, death becomes the ultimate enemy, «the last enemy to be abolished», 14 in that it becomes for man the symbol of all which threatens his life with defeat and meaninglessness.

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.

Anyone else here with me in the void of utter meaninglessness?

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

At a time when our primordial trust has been weakened due to our experience of suffering, mortality, guilt and the threat of meaninglessness, an encounter with this picture is capable of allowing us to trust once again that we are cared for and that reality is not indifferent to our deepest longings.

The failure of science and technology to bestow values on the facts with which they deal contributes to a world - wide malaise or sense of meaninglessness.

As commentators from Jacques Ellul to Peter Leithart have pointed out, the Teacher in the book is not concerned so much with «Vanity» or «Meaninglessness» as he is with the evanescence of all things around him.

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.

Lacking a trustful relationship with God and others, he has no defense against his fear of death and meaninglessness.

In Altizer, the profane remains throughout a rather passive element that grows only by its association with the sacred, and is of itself pure meaninglessness.

Broadly speaking, while a critic of Hiltonian contradictions and meaninglessness, I would have some sympathy with him over those anonymous attacks.

Otherwise, you are thrust into an abyss of meaninglessness and plot - heavy maneuvering overlaid with Christian propaganda that wears out its welcome with the first line of exposition.

A bunch of loosely gathered storylines strung together with mostly rote dialogue, stilted performances and a disquieting sense of meaninglessness.

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.

With his choice of the exhibition title, Kiefer dedicates the installation to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline's book «Voyage au bout de la nuit» («Journey to the End of the Night») from 1932, which describes the demise of European humanism in the trenches of World War I. Famous for its gallows humour and world - weary misanthropy, the book is a darkly humorous and grotesque description of the meaninglessness and evil of war.

But some of us feel that art that flirts with the very edge of meaninglessness is an invaluable asset of resistance in this society, which hides its disarray behind surreptitious proofs and verifications.Kahn works a canvas with the relentlessness of the rising tide.

But some of us feel that art that flirts with the very edge of meaninglessness is an invaluable asset of resistance in this society, which hides its disarray behind surreptitious proofs and verifications.

By their expressive autism, Ireland's pieces often disclose less about themselves than about the condition in which they exist: a cultural field so charged with expectation and reference that everything seems possible in it except meaninglessness, true absurdity.

'' [A Conversation with Jung Young Moon] Writing for Skeptics: Navigating Meaninglessness.»

Science believes in randomness as the basis of existence, and so with humans doing non-random things, and having a meaning and purpose we perceive to our lives, and taking actions that we understand will lead to desired outcomes, then they have rebelled against humanity for the sake of their randomist meaninglessness ideology.

The problem with memes is that you can never arrive at the truth, because you've undermined the very notion of «truth» — it's just a meme — andrelativised it into meaninglessness.

From Michael Pollan discussing organics at Wal - Mart to Kellogg's introducing organic cereal, there's a constant balancing act to be had between reaching a majority of the population with greener products, and diluting the movement to the point of meaninglessness.

Among AD males MIF was significantly associated with total GDS scores and subscales of dysphoria, meaninglessness, and cognitive impairment.

Philippa specialises in working with symptoms of depression and anxiety, relationship difficulties, stress and feeling overwhelmed, abuse, feeling stuck, meaninglessness and hopelessness, self - harm and suicidal ideation.

«Are you struggling with feelings of isolation, meaninglessness, worry, or fatigue?