existentialism

What I cherish in Bataille: his worldview. All, he says, is but part of a system of interplaying energetic forces. The system is such as to desire violent excess, chaos. All is desire to overflow, to explode, to release, to expend. Energetic frenzy is seemingly suspended- it's slowed up, congealed... Until the breaking point.  Read More »

Everyone wants to follow his or her own path in life, yet others believe that people should follow set moral rules. This is the heart of Existentialism, that man should make his own way in the world and discover his own reality. Existentialism is widely accepted in this day and age and is a major part of our society, saturating the realm of mass media.  Read More »

Sometimes I wish I could fly around the world dropping copies of Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism. I think it really would so us some good.  Read More »

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera  Read More »

Ahh, writing a blog for no points makes me happy and sad at the same time. In the past few years I've run across Christian Existentialism which is something I don't quite understand but something I do is how the Bible is existential.  Read More »

In English we are learning about existentialism. In this philosophy, life is meaningless. We read a book by Albert Camus, "The Stranger".  Read More »