"He cannot escape choosing"

[Goosemaster]

"Existence is prior to essence. Man is nothing at birth and throughout his life he is no more than the sum of his past commitments. To believe in anything outside his own will is to be guilty of 'bad Faith.' Existentialist despair and anguish is the acknowledgement that man is condemned to freedom. There is no God, so man must rely upon his own fallible will and moral insight. He cannot escape choosing."

?What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world ? and defines himself afterwards. If man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself.?

-Jean-Paul Sartre

 

[pyonir]

Okay.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: pyonir
Okay.

Exactly.

 

[chrisms]

I don't understand

 

[SynthDude2001]

I did some sort of project on that guy back in high school...don't remember a whole lot though. :beer:

 

[aplefka]

I thought maybe this was going to be a Half-Life thread.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: chrisms
I don't understand

It is a comment on existance by a 20th century Philosopher...

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: chrisms
I don't understand

It is a comment on existance by a 20th century Philosopher...

I'm a 21st century philosopher.

 

[Fudssa]

Yum.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: chrisms
I don't understand

It is a comment on existance by a 20th century Philosopher...

Philosophers, for the most part, are overly educated people who like to hear themselves talk in circles.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

"Well, Sartre, we don't like existentialists around here, and we certainly don't like French philosophers poncing around in their black polo necks filling everyone's heads with their theories about the bleakness of existence and absurdity of the cosmos, clear?"


-Arnold Judas Rimmer

 

[db]

If you want to read something useful, check out J. Krishnamurti.
"Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. "

Or for something totally different, Seth
"What separates events is not time, but your perception. You perceive events "one at a time." Time as it appears to you is, instead, a psychic organization of experience."

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: db
If you want to read something useful, check out J. Krishnamurti.

interesting

 

[Nebor]

Is this thread about the Matrix?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Nebor
Is this thread about the Matrix?

Sort of....except the computers in my world run on love...:lips:

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: pyonir
I'm a 21st century philosopher.

And a somewhat lesser one in comparison to Sartre.

 

[Platypus]

I love Sartre.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Nebor
Is this thread about the Matrix?

Sort of....except the computers in my world run on love...:lips:

Well then I think you and I are going to need a bigger heatsink...

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Nebor
Is this thread about the Matrix?

Sort of....except the computers in my world run on love...

You might enjoy Simulacra and Simulation by a more recent French philosopher.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: pyonir
I'm a 21st century philosopher.

And a somewhat lesser one in comparison to Sartre.

That's your philosophy. My philosophy is that i am much better at philosophizing than Sartre.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: pyonir
That's your philosophy. My philosophy is that i am much better at philosophizing than Sartre.

You might be confusing the word philosophy with fantasy.

Understandable. They both end in Y.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: pyonir
That's your philosophy. My philosophy is that i am much better at philosophizing than Sartre.

You might be confusing the word philosophy with fantasy.

Understandable. They both end in Y.

Are you saying you fantasize about me?! :Q

Sick bastard.

 

[Mucho]

I now got a headache reading this thread.