i would say existentialism really is not JUST about despair an death.
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April Fools’ Day was more than a week ago. C’mon.
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Okay but can I still call my depression a school of thought?
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thanks chief. the despair comes from knowing that it's up to us, and that radical freedom can be trauma inducing because we're not living up to who we want to be. the freedom is the freedom of the void - but if we take the leap and try sometimes we find out we can soar.
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But that freedom can bring despair, if we think that there is no higher power that our will, and that we are all alone living a pointless live. But hey, at least we are free to choose between Google or Yahoo :P .
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You're right, it's about terror and your constant failure to engage with your freedom of action because of the desires of others. Hell is other people.
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Also: The Cure is way more positive and uplifting than they get credit for.
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So why do so many people associate it with despair and death? Not being disingenuous, I'm actually curious.
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Because, drawing from Kierkegaard and other, Camus made clear that there is but one serious question in philosophy: that of suicide. From this he argues towards life-affirming absurdism. I
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