Addressing a crowd of 50,000 young German boys and girls who help in their respective churches as altar servers, he warned them that "many young people waste too many hours on futile things".
Whether we call this self-consciousness "the ego", our "personal thinking", "the self", or simply "me", trying to live up to an image or ideal of what this "me" should be like is the single most draining, stressful, and ultimately futile things we spend our time and energy on each and every day.
People, who have psychiatric problems, are easily disturbed by futile things.
It suggests an uprising is futile, that things will remain how they have always been neither getting better nor worse.
They are frustrated, he said, because their taxes are rising but they see no improvements in their "economic and social life," and they are angry because candidates did not address "concrete problems" during the campaign, focusing instead on "futile, absurd things".
Yet if the quest for the next big thing is futile, the disagreements and difficulties inherent in these "strategic" discussions should not be causes for discouragement or reasons to skirt hard issues for the sake of proclaiming Mr. Kerry's visit a great success and the relationship as sunny as ever.
The quest of permanence in any of these things is futile and the sooner you realise it, the better".
There are still those, however, who want to categorize Christians as an explanation for the church's decline in attendance in a futile effort to make things not look so bad.
The local council has form for futile attempts at improving things, most recently pouring money into a geometric paving pattern that is so hypnotically mesmerizing that it nearly killed somebody.
But it's futile to try to keep things out of the scientific literature.
