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Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 8, 2024 at 11:48 pm
(August 8, 2024 at 10:42 pm)Silver Wrote: Philosophy can be fun, but at the end of the day it's still just an exercise of the imagination.

At the end of the day, all masturbation is mental. Philosophers simply insert an extra, and extraneous, layer.

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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 8, 2024 at 11:53 pm
Existentialism seems to be a theoretical philosophical framework built around a common psychological experience, but in terms of actionable ideas it comes up a bit weak. Stoicism is where the useful stuff can be found, IMO.
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 12:00 am
About as stoic as I get is RBF.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 12:42 am
(August 8, 2024 at 11:53 pm)Astreja Wrote: Stoicism is where the useful stuff can be found, IMO.

That's certainly where I've landed -- shit happens, deal with it.

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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 1:19 am
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 3:11 am
(August 8, 2024 at 12:01 pm)Riddar90 Wrote: Søren Kierkegaard is said to be the father of it. But he is kinda forgotten about...

The finest legacy that an Existentialist could hope for.
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 6:28 pm
Not what is life good for but what is a good life?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 6:34 pm
I am not sufficiently well-informed to have an opinion.
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 9:12 pm
I am not particularly well read in philosophy but from what I have gathered, I subscribe more to Absurdism, though as others have said, in practice I am tending to Stoicism, occasionally successfully.
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RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 9, 2024 at 9:14 pm
Philosophically I'm Taoist and Hindu. Not in the existence precedes essence camp.
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