RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 8, 2024 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2024 at 3:35 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(August 8, 2024 at 12:01 pm)Riddar90 Wrote: But i was watching "The Seventh Seal" an old Swedish movie which has held up well. And the confession scene to death in that movie is probably what "keyword, existential crisis" tends to be to me when i think about it. I am just wondering how you feel about it? Anxiety of living etc.
Then you should better watch Woody Allen's movies, especially those from the 70s and 80s because they deal with those existential stuff and are kind of an answer to Bergman's movies.
Take "Hannah and Her Sisters", there Woody plays a guy who has an existential crisis and even tries couple of religions, but then discovers that you need to find something in life that makes you happy.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
