[1124] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Dec 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 4 01:29:17 1988
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 88 01:29:40 EST
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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celine (Adam Weishaupt):
"...thought, as abstraction and reduction, necessarily is in tension
with existence and can neither overshadow it nor take its place. This
tension which has to be lived and can never be resolved, which makes
the human condition and is the source of human reality, is neither
futile nor fatal."
Blackham, "Reality, Man, and Existence"
Kierkegaard's beliefs on Christianity:
"Without risk there is no faith. Faith is precisely the contradiction
between the infinite passion of the individual's inwardness and the
objective uncertainty. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I
do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon
holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the
deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my
faith."
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The faith that Kierkegaard had was based on his dire necessity to
believe, and was held at a "risk" that all Christianity may be
fallacious. The "passion" to which he refers is a passion of the
deepest despair; despair that arises from man's inability to perceive
God as an object. But without this lack of proof, or even reasonable
probability, of the existence of God, man would be unable to feel the
"passion" that brings faith.
It is an uneasy faith, though. Kierkegaard scorned traditional
Christianity because of its acceptance of a system that would relieve
men of their anxieties about the existence of God, since these
anxieties are what should move men to faith in the first place.
The excerpt is taken from his essay, "Truth is Subjectivity".
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cheshire (Mary Vogt):
To increase my pain threshold.
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dpeisach (Daniel Peisach):
"We've got to find out the location of the main controls of the tractor
beam...Quick Artoo! rlogin deathstar.mit.edu!"
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srz (Stanley R Zanarotti):
Seeing light at the end of the tunnel.
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