It's simple. There's two paths. You either repeatedly struggle with routine justifications for the rest of your life. Or you accept God. I know which one I prefer.

>>2594321

Why so binary?

>>2594325
What else is there?

>>2594325
"hurr invent your own meaning" is just a sub form of the former choice.

>>2594330
Hurr, I was just pointing out false dichotomy

>>2594321

My life goal is to either kill the universe, outlive it, or both.

>Can someone post deep and edgy's existential crisis guides?

OP it shouldn't be that hard. Look around you. The universe is a meaningless existence populated with stupid rocks and stars. Take the earth, a mere grain of sand on the beach that makes up the universe. The earth is not huge, but tiny. Humans are even smaller than the earth and nonexistent. When we die our name will live on in your children and grand children, but then your name will vanish and we can therefore state, that you don't exist now. We are utterly insignificant

>>2594330
So is accepting God.

>>2594421
No. Accepting God is refusing to bow to arbitrary justification. Credo quia absurdum.

>>2594340
and yet you can't explain what makes it not dichotomous.

>>2594426
The overwhelming power of Kierkegaard's complete surrender is but another cleverly disguised 'arbitrary justification'. It's all just word games.

>>2594426

i also like latin but god doesnt real.

>>2594443
True dis.

There's a third option besides creating your own meaning or retreating back into faith because your field trip into nihilism didn't turn out to be as nice as you expected, however.

Just accept the lack of meaning, be suspended in nothingness, float around a bit until you get used to it. After a while the notion of meaning becomes rather absurd itself and you are content to just be without meaning, like many a beast or plant.

>>2594460
suspended in nothingness while shackled by circumstance. Yep, that sounds about right.

>>2594472
Speak for yourself prole scum.

>>2594477
Why are you lying about your economic background?

>>2594485
I'm middle class. Inherited a business where I don't have to do shit unless problems come up or take on new clients.

Why do atheists not want this thread on the front page?

Cognitive Dissonance?

>>2594443
>The overwhelming power of Kierkegaard's complete surrender is but another cleverly disguised 'arbitrary justification'. It's all just word games.
How so?

>>2594549
You're still only going through with it because you can live with your choice to surrender. You still will it.

>>2594504
only in america can working people insist on their middle class status no matter how fragile that is thanks to bad credit. talk to me when you're proper bourgeoisie .

Anyway, >>2594472 wasn't a class point. it was more a joke on the fact that they are literally suspended. Even if you're the aristocracy you're still constrained by your circumstances. I don't just mean economic circumstances but moral ones.

i remember reading Kerouac when I was 16 and thinking it was so deep lol

>>2594598
>only in america can working people insist on their middle class status no matter how fragile that is thanks to bad credit. talk to me when you're proper bourgeoisie .
I'm British. And I'm not dependant on credit. All my assets are paid off.

>Anyway, >>2594472 wasn't a class point. it was more a joke on the fact that they are literally suspended. Even if you're the aristocracy you're still constrained by your circumstances. I don't just mean economic circumstances but moral ones.
I'm not constrained by those either.

>>2594321
I am going to chime in on that being an oversimplification and false dichotomy as well.

You could simplify it further by justifying existence with Faith and God. BUt really just throwing stuff all in the same category of "justifying" seem facetious. Different justifications for existence can lead to vastly different worldviews. Besides "justification" only truly has a place in epistemology, silly pointless questions in the realm of existentialism will only butcher the use of the word "justification" as none of the outlooks are truly justified in the way other branches of philosophy justify things. Justification in the context of existentialism means something more akin to a very subjective preference.

I am still on the border of whether or not existentialism can really be discussed seriously as any sort of philosophy, or if there is anymore we can do that shit all over each other's views with our own. There isn't really a standard to appeal to in order to properly discuss it to any depth beyond "this is what I think"

This thread is meaningless.

tbh you crip up in the lou and gettin to shootin' with the twos

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>>2595941
>>2595959
You both have grasped the essence of existentialism in your own respective comments

>>2594549
see::
>>2594426
>"Accepting God is refusing to bow to arbitrary justification. Credo quia absurdum."
compare
>"Accepting bacon is refusing to bow to arbitrary justification. Credo quia absurdum."

>>2594472
That's very nicely put.

>>2594477
>implying people with a bit of money aren't shackled by circumstance
>implying they aren't subjected to gravity and disease and suffering
>still shackled as fuck

>>2594321

Thread derailed in the first comment.

I love 4chan.

>>2596332
>gravity
don't wish to float
>disease
eat healthy, exercise.
>suffering
no.

For the majority of my life I float in your so called nothingness. It doesn't bother me.

The key to life is shrewd resignation and being generally laid back guy. Otherwise you're a slave.

>>2596337
>implying exercise and healthy eating grant you immortality
>implying you have never had a headache or a fever or bumped your toe

Disease and suffering. You are not above it. You have very human limitations, because you are a human. That is what I meant. So your are still shackled by circumstance.

>The key to life is shrewd resignation and being generally laid back guy.
On this I agree. I've always found the trickster archetype to be the most inspiring one.

>>2596073

But I love Francis Bacon.

>>2594286

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Onfray

>>2596413
What's this hedonist got to do with anything?

>>2596809
>>2596809
>hedonist
I think you said it right there, buddy.

>>2596898
If you mean that hedonism is in a way a solution to existential crisis, because it seeks not meaning or truth but pleasure, which is much more easily found, I agree.

If thought so many times myself, but the actual practice of it leaves one a bit empty, I've found.