"There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect unless each one's dialogue speaks for the whole world." Emerson...
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black_sheep_999
Feb 5, 2001 11:04 pm
"Do not seek yourself outside yourself" Good point Mr. Gnothi Saucon. Do you know what I do when I see a beauiful girl that is so young I don't want to get...
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michele_track
Feb 10, 2001 5:15 am
Why are you so defensive?<br>Quite frankly, I don't think anyone is going to hit you back. Isn't age only one measure of ourselves? And if so, it is only of...
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mhandelman1
Feb 11, 2001 2:18 am
I posted this question in the anarchist commune (To those who think anarchism is chaos and disorder, let me rephrase "anarchism", with libertarian ...
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sptim310
Feb 15, 2001 7:52 pm
hey everybody, I just made a new club, based upon underground art,music,literature and alternative things.It is philosophical as well as political All people...
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determinism00
Feb 18, 2001 8:16 pm
Greetings,<br><br>I am the founder of the determinism club, on Yahoo. We generally have open chats at 8:00pm EST, on Sundays.<br><br>Recognizing that there may...
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tyedyedsoul3
Feb 27, 2001 4:08 am
Hey I'm new to this board and notice a lot of conversations on postmodernism. What I want to ask is this: Is there a place for existentialism in the postmodern...
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aquamouth
Mar 9, 2001 2:44 am
what exactly is existentailism? I've read books and I'm still not quite sure.<br><br>~Aquamouth<br><br>I would like to learn more about this fascinating...
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michele_track
Mar 9, 2001 3:56 am
Yay! The first post in a REALLY long time.<br><br>It had been traditionally believed that essence preceded existance (for people). That is there was the idea...
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writing_box
Mar 11, 2001 2:39 am
A friend of mine asked me the question,"if you subscribe to Kierkegaard, you like his view of faith. I say that the faith Kierkegaard is not faith at all, ...
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michele_track
Mar 11, 2001 5:12 am
I think it can be both. There can be faith in something, even though reason says it will not happen yet there can be faith in something that is reasonable. ...
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determinism00
Mar 11, 2001 5:33 am
So, ironically, the birth of faith occurs at the moment of any doubt. And the death of faith in a particular thing occurs with resignation of belief in that ...
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tyedyedsoul3
Mar 12, 2001 4:45 am
I would go with michele's definition (sartre)<br>But I would also ad the volation of man (freedom) and that we all share innate feelings of dispair but our ...
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tyedyedsoul3
Mar 12, 2001 5:11 am
"Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by...
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writing_box
Mar 12, 2001 6:40 am
True faith...the kind Abraham has. The type of faith that Fr. Smith shows in Percy's "Thanatos Syndrome." The type of faith where one walks right up to the ...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Mar 12, 2001 12:24 pm
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,<br>The COURAGE to change the things I can,<br>And the wisdom to know the difference.<br><br>My ...
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skip2maloo2000
Mar 12, 2001 1:34 pm
Faith is the absence of courage. It grows out of the fear of nothingness, fear of finding ourselves alone in the universe, not the kings of creation nor even...
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manitouliner
Mar 12, 2001 1:55 pm
They way I have often seen Existentialsim defined is:<br><br>Existentialism deals with four ultimate concerns: Freedom, Isolation, Meaninglessness, and Death....
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writing_box
Mar 12, 2001 5:59 pm
I agree that faith is born out of fear. This is an absurd world. We have no proof of any creator. We have no purpose, we are no/thing. From that fear I feel...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Mar 14, 2001 11:43 am
There is religion and there is Religion. And it is only the free spirit who's traveled long and hard in complete abandonment of the ways of the world and the...
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cheesyanthrax
Mar 17, 2001 9:03 am
Just hoping to learn more about existentialism. It's an interesting topic that came up in high school. I'm glad to join an intellectual club....
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Mar 17, 2001 2:18 pm
Hello cheesy. You wish to learn more about existentialism. That is good. Yet the greatest knowledge is the knowledge of oneself. And likewise college too can...
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thesheep_nz
Mar 19, 2001 3:07 pm
read this, what utter rubbish<br><br><a href=http://www.christianinformation.org/exist.html...
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tyedyedsoul3
Mar 24, 2001 6:51 am
Oh where to begin....first they say that existentialism is the "very antithesis of Christian belief in that it <br> asserts the total autonomy of man." Ok, but...
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miserableterre
Mar 30, 2001 4:11 am
Is essence the self-conscious acts of awreness of the different aspects of our existence. Are our humanity and spirituality our conscious testimonies of the...
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black_sheep_999
Apr 4, 2001 9:49 pm
I read it, but I don't know what they mean by essence preceeds existence. Has anyone here tried to figure out what existence preceeds essence means? ...
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black_sheep_999
Apr 4, 2001 9:53 pm
Hey Bob, I found a JK book in the library and spent about 5 minutes wiht it. I saw my reservations about him were unfounded. One example (paraphrase?) "When...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Apr 5, 2001 12:09 pm
Others can be but a mirror, although I found K a good one. Have we not all deviated from the straight and narrow? Have we not all been trained up to follow a...
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mon_ass
Apr 14, 2001 9:51 pm
Black Sheep, where did you get the idea Kierkegaard said "Existence precedes Essence"? Here is some stuff on the topic, but i cannot find where he actually ...
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tyedyedsoul3
Apr 17, 2001 3:24 am
Sartre came up with "existence proceeds essence."...
