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"He cannot escape choosing"

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Goosemaster

Lifer
"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
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"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
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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."
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
That's your philosophy. My philosophy is that i am much better at philosophizing than Sartre.
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You might be confusing the word philosophy with fantasy.

Understandable. They both end in Y.
 
Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Originally posted by: pyonir
That's your philosophy. My philosophy is that i am much better at philosophizing than Sartre.
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You might be confusing the word philosophy with fantasy.

Understandable. They both end in Y.
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Are you saying you fantasize about me?! :Q

Sick bastard.
 
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