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4DQSAR

4DQSAR

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“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

-Soren Kierkegaard

With all dure respect Soren - FUNNY!
 
Kierkegaard was an unusually vunerable person which is why so many people skip over his work. He was a devoit Christian which I suspect also means his philosophy is sometimes seen as tainted but almost every existensist philosopher based their own works on his seeing life as essentially pointless.

It took Camus to point out that while it may be the case, then surely living ITSELF is the only meaning of life. That we all die but that doesn't mean we shouldn't enjoy whatever time we have.
 
Kierkegaard thought Christ's only purpose was to suffer and die for him and his community. He's a sadist. Christ comes to judge not to nudge your thinking.
 
Surely you mean masochist?

He didn't demand others suffer, he simply tried to understand his own suffering.
 
He demanded Christ suffer and die. "His only purpose". I will say I only skimmed through his books. But that stuck out.
 
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4DQSAR said:
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

-Soren Kierkegaard

With all dure respect Soren - FUNNY!
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I don't even understand what he's even trying to say here. Although, admittedly, I harbor heavy Eastern principles. Life is despair... it is also other things. Yin and Yang. Light cannot exist without dark. Happiness, brilliance, and prosperity cannot exist without despair, ignorance and suffering. Thats just how the universe works. Duality pervades all. Kierkegaard is so emo.
 
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