(March 10, 2010 at 5:00 pm)Saerules Wrote: It depends... what are you wanting to discuss about it?
I am a nihilistic existentialist... so i subscribe to the belief that there is no meaning ('essence') inherent in anything, thus all 'meaning' (or 'essence') is a supposition by us formed from our subjective viewpoints.
It really depends on what you want to know...?
I thought existentialism was akin to nihilism. A kind of watered down version for French bourgeois Intellectuals.(?)
ME? I think I'm a bit nihilistic rather than a true nihilist. I agree with Voltaire (I think it was him) who said something like " a few things matter a little but nothing matters much at all". I also agree with Franz Kafka,who said "the point of life is that it ends".
I prefer to think of myself as a pragmatic realist,and accept that apart from [arguably] some of my own actions,there are very few things in life over which I have any control.
Is it just me,or do you think dear old Frodo is easily threatened by anything which challenges his rather anal retentive world view?
PS Do you happen to know the meaning of the term 'Marxist-Phenomonologist' ? I really like to know.
