<p>it's not existentialism you're putting out. that's nihilism at its worst. existentialism tries to find an answer.
edit: now that i think of it, maybe at its best.</p>
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Young or old, rich or poor, worldly or ignorant, it doesn't matter. We're all damned to live a life devoid of meaning, groping in the darkness for answers to questions that don't exist, distracting ourself from the horror of our condition with futile pursuits, and then die, our dust as our only legacy.
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<p>Existentialism doesn't think the world is terrible - it just thinks that the world is meaningless. You sure are wobbling over towards emo, 'bud' - but don't worry, everyone goes through this phase. You'll be okay by age 25.</p>
<p>P.S. "WAAA WAAA WAAAA."</p>
<p>Here's a good poem for this thread hehe.. You gotta love Dickinson...
For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay.
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.</p>
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This is the most ridiculously corny and untrue post I've seen in...like, ever. I'm sure that as a relatively privileged, educated teenager who has the time to make 900 posts on an elite college website, life seems pretty sweet. I'm sure you'd like to tell everybody that they can be whatever they want.
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What's with all the hostility? SDMS12 is just speaking truth: you can be anything, anything just isn't specified. It doesn't translate to becoming "anything you want," it just means as long as you've got hope and perseverance you have at least some things they can't take from you. He's not telling people they can have everything, he's just telling them not to give up the one thing that keeps them going.</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p><em>edit</em> So, I really don't know if that was what he meant but at least try to cut the guy some slack for words of encouragement.</p>
<p>That's a pretty simplistic dichotomy you've set up there, enderkin.</p>
<p>In any case, I pulled the ideas from my paragraph (which was tongue-in-cheek, for those of you lacking in irony-detection facilities) largely from this:</p>
<p>solutions</a> to the human condition - jasonwaltman.com</p>
<p>So if you disagree you can take it up with the scholarly community.</p>
<p>Life is what you make of it. If you want to find any real meaning, you're out of luck - we're as soon to find answers as a goldfish is to figure out what it's doing in a glass bowl. If you take the cynical road, like our friend MelancholyDane, you really aren't any closer to a grand truth than someone who thinks the world is all flowery. You don't stand to gain anything by twisting the tenets of existentialism to fit a worldview that we're all miserable and suffering.</p>
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The diction ''impossible'', the meaning itself does not exist.
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You lost me.</p>
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but the film Life Is Beautiful with Roberto Benigni is enlightening and funny and poignant..
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That's what I thought this was going to be about, so I'm glad someone else has seen that movie! Ha, ha.</p>
<p>No closer, alpha2018, but no farther, returning to the earlier established theme of futility. :)</p>
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I pulled the ideas from my paragraph (which was tongue-in-cheek, for those of you lacking in irony-detection facilities) largely from this: <previously uncited="" source="">
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<p>Ladies and gents, plagiarism is not the solution to life's problems.</p>
<p>Also, have fun leaving "dust" as your legacy. I'd like to leave children, grandchildren, fond memories, and a well-written, well-documented wikipedia article as mine.</p>
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What's with all the hostility? SDMS12 is just speaking truth: you can be anything, anything just isn't specified. It doesn't translate to becoming "anything you want," it just means as long as you've got hope and perseverance you have at least some things they can't take from you. He's not telling people they can have everything, he's just telling them not to give up the one thing that keeps them going.</p>
<p>Alex
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<p>I can't follow your logic here.</p>
<p>I love the inhospitality of CC, quite amusing.</p>
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This has nothing to do with your post, but the film Life Is Beautiful with Roberto Benigni is enlightening and funny and poignant...anyway...
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<p>yeah, it's a pretty good movie. it's my third favorite holocaust movie, after schindler's list and the pianist.</p>
<p>my favorite holocaust movie is Hitler's Atrocities.</p>
<p>i am beautiful...
cough...</p>
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I can't follow your logic here.
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The interpretation was a long shot, really, but I'll try to clarify it. I wrote it while staring at the quote and tried to make it sound less cheesy.
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Life is beautiful for one reason, that fact that you can be anything in the world.
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Most people thought it meant "you can be anything you want" and completely bashed the OP for it. I thought it just meant any*thing. As in, not *nothing. You can change your life, probably not in the flowery idealistic way like in the quote but something to make it better.
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Don't let others or their taunts and actions affect you. Be firm, and know that your true, best quality is perseverance.
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And I'm guessing if you hold onto perseverance and hope, you'll never have nothing. </p>
<p>Alex</p>