Existentialism



Existentialism: Philosophical movement centered on individual existence: a 20th-century philosophical movement that denies that the universe has any intrinsic meaning or purpose and requires individuals to take responsibility for their own actions and shape their own destinies[Mid-20th century. From German Existentialismus, a translation of Danish existents-forhold  “condition of existence.”]


This is a subject that many people cannot discuss or be around others that discuss it for several reasons. #1 Some people cannot fully open themselves up to be vunerable to the thought that this theoretical life is not all black and white, there isn't one answer for every question. These are the people that mock a plane of higher thinking. For reasons that these people cannot get beyond their grasp of a thinking that isn't confined, it's free of criticsm even within it's own nucleus of pure Existentialism, because there is always more room for discussions & views. #2 These people may feel a certain rush of reality or self consciousness when hearing these things that are very frightening at first and the self propelled and silent angst within shakes them.. There is an counter balance to Existentialism, Fate. Keeping with the balance, one cannot exist without the other.


Fatalists:
Believer in fatalism: Somebody who believes in the philosophical doctrine of fatalism.
Fatalism 1. philosophy doctrine of fate: the philosophical doctrine holding that all events are fated to happen and that human beings cannot therefore change their destinies. 2. belief in fate: the belief that people are powerless against fate, or the attitude of resignation and passivity that sometimes results from this belief..


These are the people that accept everything in their life as is. If that hurt your feelings you're probably a fatalist. These people feel that they are not in control of their lives, i somewhat agree with that, but on an Existential level, cause we all have a predestination to die. But yet the word destination is like false advertisement because death is the only destination. There are closet existentialist who where born encased in the mucous sac of Fate. Thery're trying to awken, but like i said Existentialism when first grasped is a frightening thing.


What Existentialism basically boils down to is choice, choice to change. Fate basically boils down to sitting on your ass and accepting whatever shit life throws at you, instead of flying some back. Most of the poulation are Fatalists, because of this "yes and no, black and white" philosophy shoved down their throat by Western Philosophy and hardened by American media.


Ghost In The Machine:
A name given to the Dualists theory that the mind and body are two separate motors, by Gilbert Reyes a Realist, to the Dualist who pronounced "I think therefore i am." Rene Descartes. Bear in mind that Descartes was not a well man, and may have indeed been mad, but there is method to madness. I don't agree with everything that this man has done or said, but i share the philosophy that the mind and body are two separate but equally funtioning and sybiotic entities. We're discussing mind, not the brain. I won't dive into it, but there is medical documentation and then some about the will of mind. Hence where the subject of personal identity arises.


Personal Identity:
There is no designated silce of the human brain that can decipher where personal identity or identity as a whole comes from, perhaps from the notion that we are free thinking...well most of us. To help this subjects context, i quote myself from a poem of mine called, Two Last Pieces & Neither Fit.
" I do not know myself by name or appearance, i don't feel like i am when i feel like who i am, my physical features don't emanate from what i feel like. I am an animal, nothing more nothing less."To which i will end this section where you can think to yourself about identity with a quote from Gren, which sums it up for a lot of people "I am both at once and i am neither one."


Parasites:
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." ~ Agent Smith [The Matrix]


We parasites are the state of our true selves. We are the new Earth. Hosting the parasites (dust mites) that infest us, as we have infested Mother Earth.


Define:
To define what is, you must go back to the word itself. For the longest time i never knew or understood the word define. I have no idea if it was predestined that i become an existentialist to shatter the core of definition without knowing or caring that i didn't know what define meant. This caused a lot of problems in school, because the teachers thought i was playing with them. But to know the purpose of meaning i'm sure i had a handle on, but define itself is the mothership on confusion and further understanding in the salad bowl of all thought. Is there only one answer to one question, or the biasedness to believe that there is only one, to boost your ego with futher bullheaded thinking. "Why define? What is define? How can one, two, or a race of ignorant fools define what is definition" (excerpt from my poem "Mind") Whatever happens, will happen whether planned or by fluke, so there's nothing to define, nothing to believe in.


Think Before You Believe:
The philosophy of Existentialism isn't something i was born with. I think that's a load of excuses that people like to shovel over their Fatalist decisions. "I was born like that"That's the very core of no desire to change yourself, adaptation is the key to survival, just ask the roaches. I fell upon Existentialism in a time of my life when i had nothing, literally. Nothing but the desire to further my education beyond the gates that high school could not provide. But the Existentialism that i coddled was the darkness, the grim face to face with death that still today i have no fear of. And so most of my poetry when i first started writing it was very angry and very dark. I take what Bruce Lee who was a philosopher said. "Simplicity is the path to enlightenment." So could Existentialism just be ramblings? I say yes, you have to accept that it is all and nothing. But are belief and philosophy the same or different? I say they're one in the same. Again i quote myself, "Existentialism is just as flawed as Fate, but Existentialists challenge their flaws."                            


There is nothing in this world to believe in, nor is there any need to believe. ~ Vicious

 

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