But at least in most countries of Europe, people have come to terms with, and in many ways moved beyond, that history something the European Union by its very existence seeks to symbolise.
I'm not going to spend my entire existence seeking something that not everyone can give me (full acceptance or complete understanding), but I will fight to educate and pass along the message of hope, and in the spirit of education, I will leave it to others to come to their own conclusions.
For example, although there is indirect evidence for gravitational waves, direct evidence of their existence is still being sought by several teams of scientists in experiments such as the LIGO and GEO600 projects.
It hardly sounds like the spare, serene existence they sought to achieve with the design of their home.
Philosophers, on the other hand, practice a vocation that for most of its existence has sought, as Bertrand Russell once wrote, to "make us know the ends of life, and the elements in life that have value on their own account".
For the first few decades of skateboarding's existence, skaters sought sustenance in the snack aisles of the 7-11s whose parking lots they tormented, making meals out of corn chips, sour candy, and Slurpees.
Some recipients come from poor conditions in other countries and need help to find the better existence they seek in the United States.
He, like the entire Israeli leadership, argues that since Iran sponsors Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, both of which reject Israel's existence and seek its destruction, the key to the Palestinian solution is to defang Iran and stop it from acquiring the means to build a nuclear weapon.
Of course, the God whose existence Hartshorne seeks to establish is one that "the subtle doctor" would find unacceptable.
Queer Eye isn't so much about giving Trump voters a voice as it is acknowledging their existence and seeking, in a surprisingly nuanced and unpatronising way, to understand it.
