Comments on: Dealing with Reality

By: bookcrazy

bookcrazy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:41:06 +0000

mspennylane,

There is not lot in philosophy that I know. Have read a lot of existential literature recently, though. That ’school’, if I may call it so, makes a lot of sense to me. It’s just that these questions keep popping up to me as they do to you, I guess.

Thanks for your comment.

By: mspennylane

mspennylane — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:29:37 +0000

I really like your posts – so much to think about. You seem to know a lot about philosophy too, a lot which I don’t! So hard for me to get my head around questions like this… but I enjoy reading your posts anyway

By: Richa

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By: bookcrazy

bookcrazy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:43:18 +0000

I know you will be disappointed, but there was no coding involved on my side. I wrote this article on MS Word and pasted it on to the dashboard section for posting through the link that lets you paste a word document. I had used the ‘endnote’ feature on MS Word. Coding was automatic courtesy ‘WordPress’.

By: MizB

MizB — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:36:48 +0000

Sorry... I know this isn't about your blog post, really, but I had to ask... would you be willing to tell me how you did the "jump to" code in this post? In other words, how did you link to somewhere else, later in the same post? You can Email me if you don't mind helping me with this. Thanks so much! ((I was just looking for how to do this the other day!)) MizB of Should Be Reading

By: Counter

Counter — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:51:06 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Counter!!

By: arulba

arulba — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:45:41 +0000

This is an absolutely beautiful post!

But the only reason we think reality is absurd is that we thought there was a reason for it in the first place. We bought into the idea that there was an external reality providing that meaning for us. Nietzsche said in The Gay Science that the madman went running around to the crowds exclaiming “God was Dead”. But he soon realized he had come too early. This “madman” wasn’t speaking to the people who believed in God. He was speaking to those who claimed there was no God. These “atheists” had failed to realize that they had not yet realized God was dead because they had simply replaced God with reason.

Daily chores aren’t futile unless we think there is a reason for them. The good old protestant work ethic guarantees us a place in heaven for our ascetic efforts and the secular perspective assures us our efforts will be monetarily rewarded. But we all know in this day and age that this is not true. We believed we were entitled, but the truth is, we have never been entitled to happiness, monetary rewards, etc. We get engaged in life because it is the engagement itself that provides meaning, not the end result.

Desire is the root of all human miseries because it demands an end result that doesn’t exist. Passion, on the other hand, does not demand an end result. Passion is engaged and not based upon entitlement.

What is the point of scorning our fate unless we believe we are entitled to something beyond fate? The problem is that we bought into the idea of God in the first place, but if God doesn’t exist and never existed, why not give up the belief in entitlement and embrace our fate without scorn?

By: tmpjr70

tmpjr70 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:57:51 +0000

Between being and nothingness is like a canvass in which you can paint something out of a clean sheet. But that sheet is something you cannot choose: it may be rough, it may be dirty white, it may be silky. The fiber vastly differs from the other. This I think is the given of each life from which the life we want to paint is largely defined. It is the same canvass that helps us paint the image of our self, but at the same time it is the limit of our painting.

Between being and nothingness, there is the given of an individual life: his physique, his psyche, mis mental prowess, the social miliue he is in, his parents. When man is born, he did not choose his physical, mental, and social constitutions. These are the givens which define largely of the kind of life that he can project.

May I ask then. If you cannot relate to the canvass, that is, if you do not see any reason why you have to paint at all, so why go on with life?

In this speck of the eternal time, man has to have a meaning, a reason to live despite that at the end of the day, all his life ends to nothingness. It may be absurd, but the religious man wants to project a life beyond so he has a reason to live a life. We all put a reason to life, to make life more passionate to live by.