A Existentially Themed Thread

[Hassan]

[u][/u]

Edited August 13, 2009 by Hassan

[tinytherese]

[Fidei Defensor]

[quote name='Hassan' post='1948262' date='Aug 13 2009, 04:47 PM'][u][/u][/quote]
Exactly.

[InHisLove726]

Edited August 13, 2009 by InHisLove726

[Selah]

The nothingness. It BURNS!

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Selah' post='1948413' date='Aug 13 2009, 09:36 PM']The nothingness. It BURNS![/quote]

It isn't nothingness.

It is an invisible underline.

[Selah]

hush! Stop pointing out the obvious!

[Hassan]

[quote name='Selah' post='1948417' date='Aug 13 2009, 09:55 PM']hush! Stop pointing out the obvious!

[/quote]

Forgive him. He's unable to cope with the radical implications of his human freedom and thus seeking metaphysical explanations to reintroduce external structure into his life.

Edited August 14, 2009 by Hassan

[Aloysius_bear]

[quote name='Hassan' post='1948432' date='Aug 13 2009, 11:32 PM']Forgive him. He's unable to cope with the radical implications of his human freedom and thus seeking metaphysical explanations to reintroduce external structure into his life.



[/quote]

At any street corner, the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. ~ Albert Camus

...watch out everyone!

[QuoteMan]

Dun dun duh!!!!!

[Hassan]

[quote name='Aloysius_bear' post='1948470' date='Aug 14 2009, 12:13 AM']At any street corner, the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. ~ Albert Camus

...watch out everyone![/quote]
























I good friend of mine was truly the most brilliant human being I've ever met. She was also an atheist and spoke fluent French. I once mentioned I was reading The Myth of Sisyphus. About a week later she asked me how it was going. I said I got half way through and couldn't muster the will to continue. Her reply was "You're smarter then me. I read the whole book"





Only true if intelligence is tested by your ability to know when an author doesn't really have anything to say.

[QuoteMan]

Knowing when to hold your voice shows intelligence.

[Aloysius_bear]

[quote name='Hassan' post='1948480' date='Aug 14 2009, 12:19 AM']Only true if intelligence is tested by your ability to know when an author doesn't really have anything to say.[/quote]

hahaha very true. Though I do have to point out, all existentialism isn't necessarily as radical or atheistic as that of Sartre or of what we think of as typical French modernist thought.

[Hassan]

[quote name='Aloysius_bear' post='1948615' date='Aug 14 2009, 03:08 AM']hahaha very true. Though I do have to point out, all existentialism isn't necessarily as radical or atheistic as that of Sartre or of what we think of as typical French modernist thought.[/quote]


Of course.



I'm not Francophobic, but I can't make heads or tails of modern French thought.


I think it all went down hill after Descartes and Voltaire. After their time the only French thinker I can even really understand is Foucault. The rest seem to be speaking gibberish.

[Resurrexi]

Pascal was the best post-scholastic French philosopher.

[Hassan]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1948625' date='Aug 14 2009, 04:00 AM']Pascal was the best post-scholastic French philosopher. [/quote]


I should have included him.

[MIKolbe]

this thread has done nothing. it is nothing.





wow, that sounds like Rexi's love life.

[Aloysius_bear]

[quote name='Hassan' post='1948616' date='Aug 14 2009, 03:20 AM']Of course.



I'm not Francophobic, but I can't make heads or tails of modern French thought.[/quote]

I have a tendency to stick up for things I like but know very little about


Right now I'm just at the point where I see a movie or read a novel and think, wow how cool/strange/unnerving. That was very.....existential. I'm excited about studying it in more depth.

[InHisLove726]

[quote name='MIkolbe' post='1948653' date='Aug 14 2009, 07:23 AM']this thread has done nothing. it is nothing.





wow, that sounds like Rexi's love life.[/quote]

[MIKolbe]

exactly.