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Icelander
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The terror of existence?
#7864735 - 01/11/08 12:08 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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Without tragedy and comedy, "...man now sees everywhere only the terror or the absurdity of existence..."-Nietzsche
What do you think about this quote? Before answering, please spend a moment contemplating how nature operates in our reality and how we might use culture to distract ourselves from continual confrontation with that reality.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Lion
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Re: The terror of existence? [Re: Icelander]
#7864850 - 01/11/08 12:36 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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I see terror, absurdity, tragedy, comedy, and living, breathing, unfolding beauty.
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Icelander
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Re: The terror of existence? [Re: Lion]
#7864862 - 01/11/08 12:38 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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You seem to have found a healthy response to life. Many give Nihilism a bad rap but to me it is very close to my ideas of Taoism.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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it stars saddam
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Re: The terror of existence? [Re: Icelander]
#7866150 - 01/11/08 05:37 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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Nietzsche despised nihilism. In fact, he described it as a symptom of physical and psychological decay. He also said that Christianity was the most nihilistic philosophy because it negates the value of this world in favor of the afterlife.
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redgreenvines
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uncertainty is the source of the terror of the spoiled child. undecideability and uncertainty are great spirit lifters if you are not being spoiled. they keep the heart and mind open
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MushroomTrip
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redgreenvines said: uncertainty is the source of the terror of the spoiled child. undecideability and uncertainty are great spirit lifters if you are not being spoiled. they keep the heart and mind open
Awesome
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   All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
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