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Theology I would say can be described as the trajectory of the sacred parabola, where faith ascends into the cosmic heights and descends into the depths of existential contemplation. In this divine curve, each theological reflection becomes a celestial arc, tracing the path of faith's ascent and the graceful descent into the mysteries of the divine. – Martin Tobias Lithner	added by huyenhuyen19921992 4 months ago
Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person, – Arthur Kleinman	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
If any Chinese company is to have any chance of surviving increased scrutiny from Western governments, they will have to entrust their data to third party security firms and endure rigorous third party audits and government intrusion, in addition to transferring ownership, this is really an existential crisis for Chinese firms operating in the West. – Alex Capri	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In my 22 years affiliated with Fox, this is the closest thing I’ve seen to an existential crisis - at least journalistically, what’s most worrisome is that there doesn’t seem to be much conflict. – Bill Sammon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are watching the Ukrainian military modernize and westernize at the same time while fighting an existential war, so decisions are being made as to what kind of tanks they ’ll want in the future too, which comes with a lot of long-term choices regarding security partners. – Blake Herzinger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But you have some of this tension because there is a substantial portion of the administration that actually believes that climate change is our biggest existential threat. – Mike Gallagher	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Biden is back in the basement in Delaware while his Democratic Party struggles to retain control of the House and Senate, this is fitting, given that Biden’s disastrous policies and habit of ignoring the will of the people as expressed in polls has contributed to his own disapproval rating and the existential threat to a Democratic majority. – Kellyanne Conway	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The bill we are approving today makes clear the United States does not seek war or increased tensions with Beijing, just the opposite. We are carefully and strategically lowering the existential threats facing Taiwan by raising the cost of taking the island by force so that it becomes too high a risk and unachievable. – Bob Menendez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In the face of the existential threats like climate change and MAGA extremism, House and Senate leadership has a greater responsibility than ever to avoid risking a government shutdown by jamming divisive policy riders into a must-pass continuing resolution, permitting reform hurts already-overburdened communities, puts polluters on an even faster track, and divides the caucus. – Natural Resources	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The CHIPS bill is necessary to shore up an existential threat to our economy and our national security, and that stands on its own merit. – John Cornyn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We are facing an existential threat as a downtown business. We are forced to begin a move to a safer location outside of Portland. The city’s riches will be diminished with the loss of these good citizens. I do n’t blame the campers. There are few other options for housing, there is a plague of meth and opiates and a world that offers them no hope and little assistance. In my view, where the blame clearly lies is with the City of Portland. Please continue to follow through on funded initiatives. Fulfill the many promises made to the citizens. And give these human beings back their dignity. – Dar Crammond	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's not only those two, it is 50 Republicans who have been adamant not only in pushing an anti-Democratic agenda but also opposing our efforts to try to lower the costs of prescription drugs, trying to expand Medicare to include dental, hearing and eyeglasses, to improve the disastrous situation in home health care, in child care, to address the existential threat of climate change. You got 50 Republicans who don’t want to do anything, except criticize the president. – Getty Images/Reuters -RRB- Sanders	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is existential. This about the very fundamental institutions of our government - whether we can vote at all, whether we have any power whatsoever, it is a completely different time that we are facing in 2020 and 2022. It really feels urgent. It is a battle of a completely different kind. It is massive, it is coordinated at a national level. It is much more threatening. – Nancy Wang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Senators now face one of the most existential choices of their tenure : protect our voting rights or go down in history as an enabler of voter suppression. – King III	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The existential threat to human existence as we know it, and every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Given that [ climate change ] is an existential threat, we can't be casual about the seriousness about the threat of climate misinformation, it needs to be addressed with the same level of urgency and proactiveness that they're showing with Covid-19 and election misinformation. – John Cook	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is the challenge of our collective lifetime -- the existential threat to human existence as we know it. And every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases. So let this be the moment that we answer history's call here in Glasgow. – The President	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is amazing how little attention over the past few months has been given to these potentially really transformative pieces of legislation, this could be transformative to hundreds of thousands and millions of people who are elderly or disabled and they can't get home care and end up in nursing homes. And that's not even to mention the profound change in policy of climate change, which is really, you know, an existential crisis for the planet! – Jonathan Cohn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Daniel Rosenfeld, a professor with the Program of Atmospheric Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The capital actually has existential problems right now, already. – Daniel Rosenfeld	Found on CNN 2 years ago
President Biden has called global warming an existential threat, but these standards won't protect us, the only reason automakers have ever cut pollution is because strong rules forced them to. And these rules won't. – Dan Becker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Vice President and Sabrina Singh office are focused on the Biden-Harris Administration's agenda to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, to making sure racial equity is at the core of everything the Administration does, to combatting the existential threat of climate change, and to continue protecting the American people from the Covid-19 pandemic. – Sabrina Singh	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Partisan conflict was not a full reflection of existential or constitutional worldview in a way that we have come much closer to today, and that meant it was possible to undertake some major legal reforms that the leadership of both parties could buy in to. – Richard Primus	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The climate crisis is the existential threat of our time and requires bold and immediate action, which is why House Democrats have presented the most ambitious, impactful and forward-looking climate response in Congressional history. – Joy Lee	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's our view that the world faces a grave and growing climate crisis, climate change is both a threat to the Department of Defense's operations around the world and an existential challenge to our ability to maintain resilience here at home. – Colin Kahl	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Theology I would say can be described as the trajectory of the sacred parabola, where faith ascends into the cosmic heights and descends into the depths of existential contemplation. In this divine curve, each theological reflection becomes a celestial arc, tracing the path of faith's ascent and the graceful descent into the mysteries of the divine.

– Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
4 months ago

Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person,

– Arthur Kleinman

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

If any Chinese company is to have any chance of surviving increased scrutiny from Western governments, they will have to entrust their data to third party security firms and endure rigorous third party audits and government intrusion, in addition to transferring ownership, this is really an existential crisis for Chinese firms operating in the West.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In my 22 years affiliated with Fox, this is the closest thing I’ve seen to an existential crisis - at least journalistically, what’s most worrisome is that there doesn’t seem to be much conflict.

– Bill Sammon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are watching the Ukrainian military modernize and westernize at the same time while fighting an existential war, so decisions are being made as to what kind of tanks they ’ll want in the future too, which comes with a lot of long-term choices regarding security partners.

– Blake Herzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But you have some of this tension because there is a substantial portion of the administration that actually believes that climate change is our biggest existential threat.

– Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Biden is back in the basement in Delaware while his Democratic Party struggles to retain control of the House and Senate, this is fitting, given that Biden’s disastrous policies and habit of ignoring the will of the people as expressed in polls has contributed to his own disapproval rating and the existential threat to a Democratic majority.

– Kellyanne Conway

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The bill we are approving today makes clear the United States does not seek war or increased tensions with Beijing, just the opposite. We are carefully and strategically lowering the existential threats facing Taiwan by raising the cost of taking the island by force so that it becomes too high a risk and unachievable.

– Bob Menendez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the face of the existential threats like climate change and MAGA extremism, House and Senate leadership has a greater responsibility than ever to avoid risking a government shutdown by jamming divisive policy riders into a must-pass continuing resolution, permitting reform hurts already-overburdened communities, puts polluters on an even faster track, and divides the caucus.

– Natural Resources

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The CHIPS bill is necessary to shore up an existential threat to our economy and our national security, and that stands on its own merit.

– John Cornyn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are facing an existential threat as a downtown business. We are forced to begin a move to a safer location outside of Portland. The city’s riches will be diminished with the loss of these good citizens. I do n’t blame the campers. There are few other options for housing, there is a plague of meth and opiates and a world that offers them no hope and little assistance. In my view, where the blame clearly lies is with the City of Portland. Please continue to follow through on funded initiatives. Fulfill the many promises made to the citizens. And give these human beings back their dignity.

– Dar Crammond

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not only those two, it is 50 Republicans who have been adamant not only in pushing an anti-Democratic agenda but also opposing our efforts to try to lower the costs of prescription drugs, trying to expand Medicare to include dental, hearing and eyeglasses, to improve the disastrous situation in home health care, in child care, to address the existential threat of climate change. You got 50 Republicans who don’t want to do anything, except criticize the president.

– Getty Images/Reuters -RRB- Sanders

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is existential. This about the very fundamental institutions of our government - whether we can vote at all, whether we have any power whatsoever, it is a completely different time that we are facing in 2020 and 2022. It really feels urgent. It is a battle of a completely different kind. It is massive, it is coordinated at a national level. It is much more threatening.

– Nancy Wang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Senators now face one of the most existential choices of their tenure : protect our voting rights or go down in history as an enabler of voter suppression.

– King III

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The existential threat to human existence as we know it, and every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Given that [ climate change ] is an existential threat, we can't be casual about the seriousness about the threat of climate misinformation, it needs to be addressed with the same level of urgency and proactiveness that they're showing with Covid-19 and election misinformation.

– John Cook

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the challenge of our collective lifetime -- the existential threat to human existence as we know it. And every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases. So let this be the moment that we answer history's call here in Glasgow.

– The President

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is amazing how little attention over the past few months has been given to these potentially really transformative pieces of legislation, this could be transformative to hundreds of thousands and millions of people who are elderly or disabled and they can't get home care and end up in nursing homes. And that's not even to mention the profound change in policy of climate change, which is really, you know, an existential crisis for the planet!

– Jonathan Cohn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Daniel Rosenfeld, a professor with the Program of Atmospheric Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The capital actually has existential problems right now, already.

– Daniel Rosenfeld

Found on CNN
2 years ago

President Biden has called global warming an existential threat, but these standards won't protect us, the only reason automakers have ever cut pollution is because strong rules forced them to. And these rules won't.

– Dan Becker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Vice President and Sabrina Singh office are focused on the Biden-Harris Administration's agenda to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, to making sure racial equity is at the core of everything the Administration does, to combatting the existential threat of climate change, and to continue protecting the American people from the Covid-19 pandemic.

– Sabrina Singh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Partisan conflict was not a full reflection of existential or constitutional worldview in a way that we have come much closer to today, and that meant it was possible to undertake some major legal reforms that the leadership of both parties could buy in to.

– Richard Primus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The climate crisis is the existential threat of our time and requires bold and immediate action, which is why House Democrats have presented the most ambitious, impactful and forward-looking climate response in Congressional history.

– Joy Lee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's our view that the world faces a grave and growing climate crisis, climate change is both a threat to the Department of Defense's operations around the world and an existential challenge to our ability to maintain resilience here at home.

– Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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