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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

[katallen.livejournal.com]

That could be an interesting discussion -- although I suspect I'd end up taking it bad places :D

[cristalia.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person in the world who feels that existentialism is...remarkably freeing? If you're responsible for everything, you're empowered in every way.

Or at least that's how I always liked to read it.

(But, well, yes. I'm up for it. *g*)

[clarentine]

42, of course.

Because the mice said so.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I am always on for such, practicality permnitting; this is a week in which hellacious busy has a high chance of happening workwise and I have tickets for six plays and a movie premiere because it's Fringe, though.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

"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 find myself wanting to do this quite often. Including, but not limited to, just about anytime someone starts talking about how God is watching, the rules God has for us, how God wouldn't like that, etc.