RE: Theistic Inclinations
May 12, 2017 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2017 at 3:14 pm by Cyberman.)
(May 12, 2017 at 3:01 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(May 12, 2017 at 2:57 pm)Orochi Wrote: Only someone like Neo could take the idea of freedom as a state of condemnation
No... he was quoting the famous Existentialist Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre:
Jean Paul Sartre Wrote:Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
My bold.
Only up to the point at which Sartre becomes inconvenient. Then it's time for the bus.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'