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if we were to accept the word of the ''madman'', we would see, without question, the death of god... and we, as Nietzsche pointed out, we are the killer of god.... and in doing the killing, we feel shame and guilt, as murderers often do.... as Raskolnikov feels...... the question is not about the ki...

I have diabetes...along with high blood pressure and high cholesterol and other such things... and my doctor wants me to ''attack'' those diseases more than I have......more than just taking the pills that I have taken for many years..... and it is interesting talking to her.... because she says, y...

I have diabetes...along with high blood pressure and high cholesterol and other such things... and my doctor wants me to ''attack'' those diseases more than I have......more than just taking the pills that I have taken for many years..... and it is interesting talking to her.... because she says, yo...

and the second part of my being in ''tune'' with is existentialism.... where we bring our questions of existence to a human level...... we suffer... why do we suffer? we have angst, why? we feel guilt, why? we have shame, why? and salvation, why do we need to be saved, from what or for what, are we ...

now, we have evolution to thank for our existence.... but there are other, more fanciful theories of existence.... some, some believe that a mysterious being called god, create us.... and the evidence for this is? I have been told, more than once, that if, if I were to believe that god created the h...

accelafine: ''Trans-identified men don't want to be women. They hate women intensely. Many, if not most, want to be sexually objectified to fulfill a fetish, and because that's what they think being a woman means. Meanwhile women are being dragged to court, threatened with violence, and fired from ...

''Trans-identified men don't want to be women. They hate women intensely. Many, if not most, want to be sexually objectified to fulfill a fetish, and because that's what they think being a woman means. Meanwhile women are being dragged to court, threatened with violence, and fired from their jobs f...

it is assumed, assumed, that wealth is a sign of one superiority over others... the fittest of a human being resides in their accumulation of goods and houses and wealth.... but is that what is really the value of wealth and material possessions? but the reality is something quite different...... to...

and how does this theory of evolution fit into my own personal preference for the Enlightenment and existentialism philosophy? in ism's, the truth is given to us... the search in communism is the hunt of the creation of the ''workers state'' and in capitalism, the search is for wealth, as wealth is ...

and on the basis of Darwinism and evolution, many have come to the conclusion that there are superior races and inferior races.... but that is not the conclusion that comes from Darwin or evolution...... the point of evolution is the meet our needs.... to get food water, shelter, education, health c...

part of the modern day unhappiness lies in how we understand human beings.... we think of human beings as economic beings, as workers, as producers and as consumers..... and our very educational system, of schools and colleges, continue this practice of thinking that human beings are economic beings...

as much as anything, human beings want to feel ''special'' to be acknowledged as much as anything else...... the religious theory of life makes human beings feel special in some respect... the theory of evolution which, at its heart, is as much about randomness and chance and possibility as any theo...

as Philosophers we often forget what theories we have that can be used to help us explain what it means to be human..... and one of these theories is evolution and Darwin........  the basement or the foundation of every theory is, whether we admit it or not, is evolution.... where we come from lies ...

as time is short... much is made of how we can individually create our own self... and yet, and yet the society/state plays a powerful role in the creation of self.... would I be the same person in the Soviet Union or the south before the Civil War? no, of course not..... who we are, are very nature...

I am in tune with two philosophies... one is existentialism and the other is the Enlightenment..... I have said before that the Enlightenment project is not finished... it has a ways to go before we can consign it to history..... the examination of values and beliefs should be, should be lifelong......