No question (philosophical or otherwise), just your (mis)reading of speculative essays by a novelist-dramatist. So why start a new thread? — 180 Proof
everyone was faced with the question of 'suicide' whether they liked to admit it or not — introbert
wiki"God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot; also known as the death of God) is a widely quoted statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche used the phrase to express his idea that the Enlightenment had eliminated the possibility of the existence of God.
I'm talking about venereal diseased Don Juans to hospitals, disorganized anomics to psychiatry, drug addled to rehab, the deviant to corrections, the list goes on. — introbert
It seems like the death of God in the minds of the people will feed the expanded mystical body of Christ in all its extremities, ironically giving God new life. — introbert
I don't know if God ever existed, let alone died, but I'm pretty sure that if he does exist, he was able to survive the Enlightenment and Fred Nietzsche. — Bitter Crank
God new life. — introbert
There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. — Albert Camus
There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. — Albert Camus
Is it not absurd that there are beings who have an innate desire for meaning living in a world devoid of one? — Agent Smith
That’s one of the main complexities of human nature. The aim of surviving when we were born to die. — javi2541997
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
French fella’s (Camus and Sartre) are mere footnotes in that overall thought. — Deus
am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
still think we should separate the works and the authors. Probably, the personality of the author is not good but his books are brilliant. This issue tends to be more common than we tho — javi2541997
This issue tends to be more common than we thought.
I still think we should separate the works and the authors. Probably, the personality of the author is not good but his books are brilliant. — javi2541997
(The artists are the ones who suffer; we should be compassionate.). — Bitter Crank
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