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To: average joe who wrote (35836)	5/6/2013 2:33:42 AM
From: Greg or e	Respond to of 69300

"Existentialism does not solve the unsolvable, and it cannot destroy reason or logic." Of course not silly. Do you think blindly quoting Randy Aynie does?

To: average joe who wrote (35836)	5/6/2013 3:43:04 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

Pure existentialists are subject to almost constant Existential Crisis (disorientation of norms and a questioning of meaning and purpose in existence ). Kirkegaard was brave to suggest Religious dogma, absent genuine subjective and personal faith is an absurd offense to reason. It is not surprising to me to find a history of world conflict is under written by the conflicts endemic in the paradoxes of religious dogma. It is what individuals struggle with, so why not major world powers. Imagine you could rid the world of religion and you have the same history founded upon conflicts in political dogma or philosophical dogma. We've come through a history of overthrowing tyrannical authority of one form or another... tyrannical authority which brought suffering and penalty to those who dared listen to dissenting voices. But it seems bound to go in circles from one era to another. "Obama To Grads: 'Some Voices Warn of tyranny ... You Should Reject These Voices' " ----really? (From the Age of Reason p51) “The world’s the book where the eternal Sense Wrote his own thoughts; the living temple where, Painting his very self, with figures fair He filled the whole immense circumference. Here then should each man read, and gazing find Both how to live and govern, and beware Of godlessness; and seeing God all-where, Be bold to grasp the universal mind. But we tied down to books and temples dead, Copied with countless errors from life, — These nobler than that school sublime we call. O may our senseless souls at length be led To truth by pain, grief, anguish, trouble, strife, Turn we to read the one original.” Tommaso Campanella