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  2. Metanoia (theology) - Wikipedia

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    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary transliterates the Greek μετάνοια into metanoia and borrowing it as an English word with a definition that matches the Greek: "a transformative change of heart; especially: a spiritual conversion", augmented by an explanation of metanoia's Greek source: "from metanoiein to change one's mind, repent, from ...

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7]

  4. Existential nihilism - Wikipedia

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    Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".

  5. Pastor column: Three things that never change in a changing world

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    But You remain the same, and Your years will never end” (Psalm 102:25-27). James said that our God is the “Father of lights, with whom is no variation, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).

  6. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt; Better wear out than rust out; Beware of Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan War, Virgil in the Aeneid) [9] Big fish eat little fish; Birds of a feather ...

  7. The unexamined life is not worth living - Wikipedia

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    The unexamined life is not worth living" is a famous dictum supposedly uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death.

  8. Kaizen - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese word kaizen means 'improvement' or 'change for better' (from 改 kai - change, revision; and 善 zen - virtue, goodness) without the inherent meaning of either 'continuous' or 'philosophy' in Japanese dictionaries or in everyday use.

  9. Philosophical pessimism - Wikipedia

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    Ultimately, he concludes that life is meaningless because it cannot be externally justified, as our earthly environment fails to fulfill our metaphysical interests (in other words, life lacks a heterotelic source of meaning and justice, which are outside of life itself and thus independent of humans' efforts). The consciousness of death further ...