Emptiness Emptiness. Most people know it as the quality of lacking meaning or sincerity; meaninglessness. What if there was new meaning to the word? Nirmala says, “It’s not our fault that we tend to avoid feelings of emptiness. We were taught to do this by everyone around us who was doing it. In fact, there's a good reason to avoid one feeling of emptiness—the feeling of hunger—since we need to eat when we're hungry. However, we often interpret a feeling of lack as a need for food. Have you ever eaten when you weren’t hungry to try to distract or relieve yourself from a feeling? It’s possible to simply experience the sensations of emptiness or lack and discover that they aren’t so bad” (Nirmala 4). As if you hunger or crave for someone or something so intensely. You want that thing but you don’t know what it is or what to do to get that fill. You could be empty because you could be suffering or longing for someone or something. You are like this so you feel as if you are hollow on the inside. You could be hungry for a certain someone or something. You could crave for it because you need it or have to have it to fill a void. “Many people who suffer from personality disorders suffer from an …show more content…
For some people when they look inside themselves it seems as if there is nothing there. In order to feel something they try to distract themselves with things such as food or television. These things only help them for a certain amount of time and when it's over they go back to the feeling of emptiness. “Is it possible for “nothing” to hurt you? Is that sense of emptiness, that empty feeling, actually uncomfortable, or is the restlessness and activity of trying to distract yourself or avoid the emptiness what is uncomfortable?” (Nirmala 2) Have you ever eaten when your not hungry to try and distract or relieve yourself from a
In the reading by Richard Swinburne, he evaluates the mortality of the soul and its interaction with the human body. His position is best described as attributing the soul to a light bulb, and the brain to a functioning socket:
The second part of the book describes Siddhartha's indulgences of the body. The narrator stated, "How many long years he had spent without any lofty goal, without any thirst, without any exaltation, content with small pleasures yet never really satisfied" (67). Though at the time he did not realize it, Siddhartha had to experience the lowliness of a material...
Can color invoke viewers with a certain mood to advance the plot of a video? When a video uses imagery does it in fact create a better video? Is a video’s concepts improved when it applies complex metaphors to help readers visualize subjects difficult to grasp? Animators for Blank and Blank use all of these unique tools to improve the journey on which the audio takes them. Sadly, there are a few cases where they inappropriately use visuals, which can cause some confusion to the viewer. The animators uses color, imagery, and complex metaphors to build a beautiful immersive experience for the viewer.
According to the dictionary, the definition of dissatisfaction is the quality or state of being unhappy or discontent. Dissatisfaction is a disease that theoretically knows no prejudices, has no cure, and almost everyone has it. This is a global epidemic, that can destroy a man in the time it takes to snap your fingers. Physically most people will be alright but discontent will rot you to the core on the inside. Unfortunately, not being content seems to be a very common part of society today and in the past.
As humans, it is natural to seek to fill a void and people do so in different ways. Some choose to follow any choice of an array of religions. Others take a more secular path and venture into the worlds of illegal substances and alcohol. There are others still who believe that they are unable to be whole unless they have their soul mate by their side every second of every day. In “Vegetable Love” Annette Grim, a vigorous vegetarian, refers to her void as her spot. It is described as “a sort of Cartesian pineal gland that existed within her right rib cage. ‘This is its place, my body’s soul lives here.’” Annette says about her spot that is specific to each person (456). When she and Ferguson enter into a relationship Ferguson begins the search for his spot. At first he seems to shrug it off, but when Annette leaves he becomes obsessed. “Vegetable Love” emphasizes obsessions with love and the human need of filling a void by pairing love and vegetarianism and providing religious allusions to emphasize the importance of voids in love and religion.
Existentialism, which spread rapidly over continental Europe after the First World War, is essentially the analysis of the condition of man, of the particular state of being free, and of man's having constantly to use his freedom in order top answer the ever- changing and unexpected challenges of the day. According to the Existentialists, the starting point of every philosophical investigation is concrete human existence. That means that human personality in itself should point the way to the absolute value of reality. A single definition of existentialism is impossible. Definitions, provided by dictionaries are only part of what existentialism is about. …central to each definition is the assertion that existentialism is a theory or statement about the nature of man's existence. (1) The term is so difficult to define because, unlike other terms, existentialism is not universal. In other words, there are no two existentialists, which share exactly the same values or beliefs. Although, here is one major theme: a stress on individual existence, subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice.
Are you more of a glass half-empty type of person or a glass half-full? In the essay “Happiness is a glass half empty” writer Oliver Burkeman would say he is a glass half empty type of person. In his essay he writes, “Be positive, look on the bright side, stay focused on success: so goes our modern mantra. But perhaps the true path to contentment is to learn to be a loser” (Burkeman). I think what he means in this statement is people nowadays are taught to always look on the brighter side of life. When in actuality people should be looking on the negative side of life to realize how great their lives really are. In this essay writer Oliver Burkeman uses rhetorical devices such ethos, pathos, and logos to prove that maybe being negative
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Existentialism is the epitome of the unknown. There is no straightforward explanation of what exactly it is, there is only certain characteristics and behaviors that describe existentialist views. Throughout today’s world, there are examples of it everywhere, it’s found in movies, books, songs, and just people in general. Existentialists are known to think and do for themselves only. They believe that to understand what it means to be human requires understanding of themselves first. Some very well known pieces of entertainment existentialism is found in are: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Stranger by Albert Camus, and The Breakfast Club by John Hughes. The Stranger is a book written about a young man whose mother dies, which soon leads him to becoming acquainted with the feeling of not caring about what his actions do to others or himself. The main character Meursault starts helping his friend Raymond, carry out ways to torment his mistress. Out of nowhere while at the beach, Meursault shoots Raymond’s mistress’s brother. He is thrown into jail and tried, but he seems to not be affected as much as he should about his actions. He first finds it hard to live without cigarettes, women, and nature, but he soon finds out he doesn’t need any of those. After being sentenced to death, he is suggested to turn away from his atheism but later realizes that human existence has no greater meaning. This realization and acceptance is what truly makes him happy (Camus). Next, The Breakfast Club is a very relatable movie about high school students suffering the consequences of their actions in detention. The kids are all of ...
Life is a basic human right that we have, so where does it begins, Through Existence or Through Being. Being is the state of existing, and having awareness of existence, so you need Being to realize the awareness of Existence. On the other hand, Existence has no meaning if it is not realized. Existence is conceptually different from Being. The Being and Existence process are unique, because there is a possibility to stop the Being process, and this is where the fetus comes in. Many people claim that human life begins at conception or when you become aware of the fact that you are pregnant. To really find out when life begins we should look at the scientific facts since Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom. First the unborn take in nutrients,
The founders of existentialism such as Sartre, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Camus exemplify the philosophy of existentialism in their writings because they focus on absurdity in life and lack of definite meaning. Throughout history some people see themselves as just someone who is put on Earth just for “no reason” these people believe that there is no meaning to them. What is right could mean that it is wrong in society. What they might think is wrong might mean it is right in society. There is no meaning to Existentialism other than that those people do what they want whenever they want. This doesn’t mean that they are bad people; they just see life on a different perspective in which they don’t really know why they are put on Earth. Existential philosophers have been studying why they think this way, feel this way, and even act the way they. Some philosophers might have even written a book about the foundations of existentialism and how it all came about.
Existentialism is the philosophical theory that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of there will. Friedrich Nietzsche central message concludes that “the basic drive of all living things is not a struggle to survive, but a struggle for power …” (p.530). Jean-Paul Sartre has a different central message stating “Nothing tells me what to do. I myself decide” (p.317). These messages show why they are regarded as existentialists.
In a world of instant satisfaction; having a feeling of longing, while having no true subject to project it onto, is quite painful. The sense of unfulfillment is not something often felt in the world today. When it is felt, people often get angry or upset. People are not taught what unfulfillment is. It is even more difficult to get rid of though if that feeling has no true object of satisfaction. Truly, how can someone be happy if they cannot find what it is that makes them happy? Toska, or тоска, is a Russian word that does not have a full translation to English, but the closest definition would be the most painful ache and longing for nothing in particular.