Citizens of the Universe?

[quote]Headhunter wrote:
vroom wrote:
Dude, I’ve read a lot of shit in my time.

It’s not that I don’t ‘get it’, it’s that I don’t subscribe to the same ideologies and I’m not looking for or clinging to sources that support my existing viewpoints… like a certain broken record I keep hearing.

Alright Mr.Sponge-Bob-Lazy-Pants, here you go. :wink: from Wiki, btw.

"Famous existentialists include Sartre, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Camus, Fanon and de Beauvoir.

Existentialism emphasizes action, freedom, and decision as fundamental to human existence; and is fundamentally opposed to the rationalist tradition and to positivism. That is, it argues against definitions of human beings as primarily rational, knowing beings who relate to reality primarily as an object of knowledge; or for whom action can or ought to be regulated by rational principles; or as beings who can be defined in terms of their behavior as it looks to or is studied by others.

More generally it rejects all of the Western rationalist definitions of being in terms of a rational principle or essence, or as the most general feature that all existing things share in common. Existentialism tends to view human beings as subjects in an indifferent, objective, often ambiguous, and “absurd” universe, in which meaning is not provided by the natural order, but rather can be created, however provisionally and unstably, by human beings’ actions and interpretations."

In other words, Vroomie, pick an ideology you like, and stick with it. It becomes true FOR YOU.

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And this is untrue!

[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Alright Mr.Sponge-Bob-Lazy-Pants, here you go. :wink: from Wiki, btw.

"Famous existentialists include Sartre, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Camus, Fanon and de Beauvoir.

Existentialism emphasizes action, freedom, and decision as fundamental to human existence; and is fundamentally opposed to the rationalist tradition and to positivism. That is, it argues against definitions of human beings as primarily rational, knowing beings who relate to reality primarily as an object of knowledge; or for whom action can or ought to be regulated by rational principles; or as beings who can be defined in terms of their behavior as it looks to or is studied by others. More generally it rejects all of the Western rationalist definitions of being in terms of a rational principle or essence, or as the most general feature that all existing things share in common. Existentialism tends to view human beings as subjects in an indifferent, objective, often ambiguous, and “absurd” universe, in which meaning is not provided by the natural order, but rather can be created, however provisionally and unstably, by human beings’ actions and interpretations."

Wiki? Come on–can you find a more reliable source than that?

Nietzche was not an existentialist. Do you even know what you are posting? This only speaks to the absurdities of being a rational being. It leaves out the only piece of relevent information with regard to existentialism–that is, man is free to do as he chooses so long as he takes responsibility for the consequences of his actions.

This means that there is no real truth and that I do not have to do that which does not please me so long as I accept that what I do may have negative consequences on me.[/quote]

Seems like a contradictory philosophy.

You could add “Those who gouge the eyes out of men reproach them of their blindness.” Sorry - I forgot who said it - sometime in the 16th century anyways.