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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Where I Started But In A Different Place
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Apr 19th, 2003, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by VinceZeb
So, Retro, what "freedoms" does having no belief system give you, since there are no restraints with atheism.
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The existentialist...thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with Him; there can no longer be a priori of God, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. Nowhere is it written that the Good exists, that we must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is that we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoyevsky said, If God didn't exist, everything would be possible. That is the very starting point of existentialism. Indeed, everything is permissible if God does not exist, and as a result man is forlorn, because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Should I betray the proletariat to serve truth or betray truth in the name of the proletariat?
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Everything has been figured out except how to live.
- Jean Paul Sartre
Learn anything? Probalbly not ... what a waste ... of "cut & paste"  :/
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