> Have you ever heard the phrase "Life is an existential Hell." I
> believe I read in Newsweek that upwards of 70%% of college students
> hold that as their philosophical outlook on life.  What does that
> phrase mean?
>
> I've always held existentialism to mean that you doubt the existence
> of other people, kind of like the movie the Matrix where others don't
> exist and they're just hallucinogenic images delivered to brains in
> vats.  For example, do you think I exist, as a fellow human with a
> body and a soul?  I do, however, existentialism can extend to one's
> ownself also wherein we doubt our own existence and not only others'.
> I personally believe this is more likely to happen to Christians,
> particularly Catholiics, because one of the tenets of Christianity can
> be the denial of self.  Comments like "There's no one in the room" (as
> opposed to there's no one else in the room) suggest or imply
> existentialist philosophy directed toward oneself.  Descartes trudged
> through existentialism and came to the conclusion "I think, therefore
> I am."  Because he thinks, he concludes he exists.  From this came
> other fundamental truths such as there is a God and God is not a ...

> Have you ever heard the phrase "Life is an existential Hell." I
> believe I read in Newsweek that upwards of 70%% of college students
> hold that as their philosophical outlook on life. What does that
> phrase mean?
>
> I've always held existentialism to mean that you doubt the existence
> of other people, kind of like the movie the Matrix where others don't
> exist and they're just hallucinogenic images delivered to brains in
> vats. For example, do you think I exist, as a fellow human with a
> body and a soul? I do, however, existentialism can extend to one's
> ownself also wherein we doubt our own existence and not only others'.
> I personally believe this is more likely to happen to Christians,
> particularly Catholiics, because one of the tenets of Christianity can
> be the denial of self. Comments like "There's no one in the room" (as
> opposed to there's no one else in the room) suggest or imply
> existentialist philosophy directed toward oneself. Descartes trudged
> through existentialism and came to the conclusion "I think, therefore
> I am." Because he thinks, he concludes he exists. From this came
> other fundamental truths such as there is a God and God is not a ...

> Have you ever heard the phrase "Life is an existential Hell." I
> believe I read in Newsweek that upwards of 70%% of college students
> hold that as their philosophical outlook on life.  What does that
> phrase mean?
>
> I've always held existentialism to mean that you doubt the existence
> of other people, kind of like the movie the Matrix where others don't
> exist and they're just hallucinogenic images delivered to brains in
> vats.  For example, do you think I exist, as a fellow human with a
> body and a soul?  I do, however, existentialism can extend to one's
> ownself also wherein we doubt our own existence and not only others'.
> I personally believe this is more likely to happen to Christians,
> particularly Catholiics, because one of the tenets of Christianity can
> be the denial of self.  Comments like "There's no one in the room" (as
> opposed to there's no one else in the room) suggest or imply
> existentialist philosophy directed toward oneself.  Descartes trudged
> through existentialism and came to the conclusion "I think, therefore
> I am."  Because he thinks, he concludes he exists.  From this came
> other fundamental truths such as there is a God and God is not a ...

> Have you ever heard the phrase "Life is an existential Hell." I
> believe I read in Newsweek that upwards of 70%% of college students
> hold that as their philosophical outlook on life.  What does that
> phrase mean?
>
> I've always held existentialism to mean that you doubt the existence
> of other people, kind of like the movie the Matrix where others don't
> exist and they're just hallucinogenic images delivered to brains in
> vats.  For example, do you think I exist, as a fellow human with a
> body and a soul?  I do, however, existentialism can extend to one's
> ownself also wherein we doubt our own existence and not only others'.
> I personally believe this is more likely to happen to Christians,
> particularly Catholiics, because one of the tenets of Christianity can
> be the denial of self.  Comments like "There's no one in the room" (as
> opposed to there's no one else in the room) suggest or imply
> existentialist philosophy directed toward oneself.  Descartes trudged
> through existentialism and came to the conclusion "I think, therefore
> I am."  Because he thinks, he concludes he exists.  From this came
> other fundamental truths such as there is a God and God is not a ...

> Have you ever heard the phrase "Life is an existential Hell." I
> believe I read in Newsweek that upwards of 70%% of college students
> hold that as their philosophical outlook on life. What does that
> phrase mean?
>
> I've always held existentialism to mean that you doubt the existence
> of other people, kind of like the movie the Matrix where others don't
> exist and they're just hallucinogenic images delivered to brains in
> vats. For example, do you think I exist, as a fellow human with a
> body and a soul? I do, however, existentialism can extend to one's
> ownself also wherein we doubt our own existence and not only others'.
> I personally believe this is more likely to happen to Christians,
> particularly Catholiics, because one of the tenets of Christianity can
> be the denial of self. Comments like "There's no one in the room" (as
> opposed to there's no one else in the room) suggest or imply
> existentialist philosophy directed toward oneself. Descartes trudged
> through existentialism and came to the conclusion "I think, therefore
> I am." Because he thinks, he concludes he exists. From this came ...

>
> Even quicker responses than turtoni's...
> Isn't existentialism the tenet that truth is a function of existing [short
> and sweet].
>
>

>> Even quicker responses than turtoni's...
>> Isn't existentialism the tenet that truth is a function of existing [short
>> and sweet].

>
> Correction here...misleading about 'truth'.    More, 'what truth we can
> ascertain is a function of existing'...which goes on to suggest that we
> cannot know anything outside our existence.   Some might intrepret this as
> suggesting we cannot know an objective 'truth' at all.  That's the more
> pessimistic intrepretation IMHO.

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>> Have you ever heard the phrase "Life is an existential Hell." I
>> believe I read in Newsweek that upwards of 70%% of college students
>> hold that as their philosophical outlook on life.  What does that
>> phrase mean?

>

>> I've always held existentialism to mean that you doubt the existence
>> of other people, kind of like the movie the Matrix where others don't
>> exist and they're just hallucinogenic images delivered to brains in
>> vats.  For example, do you think I exist, as a fellow human with a
>> body and a soul?  I do, however, existentialism can extend to one's
>> ownself also wherein we doubt our own existence and not only others'. ...