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[hawkwing_lb]

...Maybe my sore shoulder is screwing with my brain. I find myself wanting to pick an argument over the nature of god and the idea that human morality is or ought to be created by an external force.

(I also want to pick an argument with Kant over his universal morality schtick, but the man's dead. So is Sartre, so I probably should let my resentment at his particular flavour of existentialism die a natural death.)

Unfortunately, the people I would like to argue with would never listen to me. Besides which, that kind of argument makes me angry rather than enthusiastically engaged.

So I wonder, could I interest some denizens of livejournal in a peaceful discussion on the meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything?

(Probably you should ignore me, and I should go and lie down until the strange feeling goes away. That would be the sensible thing to do.)

Comments

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

This is my problem with the bits of Sartre I've read. He is depressing.

Whereas I always thought that if nothing one did mattered, then everything one did mattered. A question of perspective. And ultimate personal responsibility works out to ultimate personal freedom: you make your own rules and try to make them good ones.

I like being able to make my own meaning of life. :)

[cristalia.livejournal.com]

I figured Sartre is only depressing if I let him be depressing. ;)

*giggles*

*flees*

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Heee.