If you are not religious you are by default existentialist

[jay gw]

If you don't believe in gods, or intelligent design, or a divine command or purpose in life, then by default you are an existentialist.

You may be many things besides, but you must subscribe to existentialist philosophy.

Existentialism is a unilateral philosophical movement that emphasizes the individual, the self, the individual's experience, and the uniqueness therein as the only reality. Existentialists believe in sheer freedom and accept the consequences and ramifications of their actions wholly. Existentialists prefer subjectivity, and view general existence as arcane, that they are isolated entities in an indifferent and often ambiguous universe.

There is no predefined human nature or ultimate evaluation beyond that which humans project onto the world, people may only be judged or defined by their actions and choices, and human choices are the ultimate evaluator.

 

[hammegk]

Nihilism works ok too for the uber-skeptic.

 

[Eleatic Stranger]

Sorry, you are quite wrong.

 

[hammegk]

Please educate me.

 

[EdipisReks]

wow, jay gw and hammegk in one thread. ...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...

the statement "if you are not religious you are by default existentialist" is as valid as the statement "if you are not flarnalagabingbang you are by default oopydoopyloopyfloopy", especially since jay gw's definition of existentialism isn't particularly correct.

 

[TragicMonkey]

the statement "if you are not religious you are by default existentialist" is as valid as the statement "if you are not flarnalagabingbang you are by default oopydoopyloopyfloopy", especially since jay gw's definition of existentialism isn't particularly correct.

Are you including the Unorthodox Oopydoopyloopyfloopy movement, or just the mainstream Oopydoopyloopyfloopy?

 

[EdipisReks]

Are you including the Unorthodox Oopydoopyloopyfloopy movement, or just the mainstream Oopydoopyloopyfloopy?

unorthodox Oopydoopyloopyfloopies, or Floopyloopydoopyoopies, as they call themselves, must be ruthlessly crushed under the heel of Space Cardinal Richelieu*!

*All hail Space Cardinal Richelieu, may his half cyborg, half gila monster face always appear in my dreams to offer me delicious Fruit Loops(tm) breakfast cereal

 

[Z]

I only worship at the altar of Bjork, and EdipisReks is HER Prophet.

Anyway... what is the point of this thread? I haven't seen one so far.

edited to correct a MARVELOUS typo...

AND BEHOLD! SHE CHANGETH GENDER UPON ENCOUNTERING THE DRAGON!!

eeek

 

[EdipisReks]

I only worship at the altar of Bjork, and EdipisReks is his Prophet.

Bjork is a woman, not a man!. Guards, seize the infidel! you are clearly a Floopyloopydoopyoopy.

Anyway... what is the point of this thread? I haven't seen one so far.

pseudo-intellectual masturbation for a couple of bozos?

 

[Z]

Bjork is a woman, not a man!. Guards, seize the infidel! you are clearly a Floopyloopydoopyoopy.

pseudo-intellectual masturbation for a couple of bozos?

Isn't it amazing what mantras can do to your typing? In trying to be cute, I forgot to gender-correct my witty paraphrasing...

Oh well. That's what we Gloopypoopysnoopyoopys go through.

 

[EdipisReks]

Isn't it amazing what mantras can do to your typing? In trying to be cute, I forgot to gender-correct my witty paraphrasing...

Oh well. That's what we Gloopypoopysnoopyoopys go through.

all hail SPACE CARDNIAL RICHELIEU! man, starting religions is easy! think i can get Tom Cruise to convert over?

 

[Z]

all hail SPACE CARDNIAL RICHELIEU! man, starting religions is easy! think i can get Tom Cruise to convert over?

I dunno, but Demi Moore and Madonna usually swap faiths at the 5- and 10-year marks...

 

[EdipisReks]

I dunno, but Demi Moore and Madonna usually swap faiths at the 5- and 10-year marks...

MILFS!

 

[EdipisReks]

oh, btw zaayrdragon, your little attempt to be cute worked (and was quite flattering), even though it was clearly corrupted by the hand of an infidel fake religion

 

[Z]

oh, btw zaayrdragon, your little attempt to be cute worked (and was quite flattering), even though it was clearly corrupted by the hand of an infidel fake religion

And, ironically, we live in the same city.

Oh, no, wait, you're my SOCK PUPPET. I forgot. Sorry, I guess flattering myself is silly.



((On Montgomery between Evanston and Norwood... you???))

 

[Robin]

If you don't believe in gods, or intelligent design, or a divine command or purpose in life, then by default you are an existentialist.

But of course the man regarded as the father of Existentialism - Kierkegaard - was a Christian!

 

[EdipisReks]

And, ironically, we live in the same city.

Oh, no, wait, you're my SOCK PUPPET. I forgot. Sorry, I guess flattering myself is silly.

lol

((On Montgomery between Evanston and Norwood... you???))

i live in Clifton, REALLY close to UC's main campus. i'm on my second and a half degree there.

 

[Z]

lol


i live in Clifton, REALLY close to UC's main campus. i'm on my second and a half degree there.

We just moved out of Clifton, about halfway between Brueggar's Bagles and Good Sam. We bought the big blue house across from St. Paul's.

So, what are you majoring in? (Registration, or Staying Up Until Sitwell's Closes)?

 

[EdipisReks]

We just moved out of Clifton, about halfway between Brueggar's Bagles and Good Sam. We bought the big blue house across from St. Paul's.

i think i know where that is

So, what are you majoring in? (Registration, or Staying Up Until Sitwell's Closes)?

right now i'm majoring in english. combine that with my recently completed history degree and half a clarinet performance degree, and i have the job prospects of some kind of large weevil. man, i haven't been to Sitwell's in a while, thanks for reminding me!

 

[Z]

i think i know where that is



right now i'm majoring in english. combine that with my recently completed history degree and half a clarinet performance degree, and i have the job prospects of some kind of large weevil. man, i haven't been to Sitwell's in a while, thanks for reminding me!

I rarely go - in fact, last time I went, it was Rocky Horror night at the theatre, and I was with two lesbians, a bisexual teenager, and two gay guys.. and we had the sheer dumb luck to get a homophobic waiter.

But if, on rare occasion, you see a heavyset, large-foreheaded, 4-eyed man with goatee, wild hair, and terrible fashion sense, smoking a pipe and drinking coffee like water... that would be me!

ETA

At least you HAVE something to show for your time there. I've got about half a year accumulated between three schools and military training, part for chemical engineering, part for database management, part for general studies... It's a mess. I think I majored in false starts.

But - that was all irrelevant. They don't teach courses in stay-at-home fatherhood.