Blog Posts on existentialism

Late Reflections on Charles Peguy's Portal of the Mystery of Hope by Lichtung / Ang Kaingin on Mar 12, 2012Among the three theologicalvirtues, Péguy says, it is hope which surprises God the most. He almost cannotbelieve it, this ability of man to hope.Faithis obvious. It is easy. We can easily believe in God becauseone look at his creation tells us...

Question to the Reader Two by Lichtung / Ang Kaingin on Feb 10, 2012http://www.world-nomad.com/Imagine a room without windows and doors. Someone asks you if there is someone inside. You do not hear anything. You cannot enter the room to find out for yourself. There is literally no way for you to know. ...

Mo Twister's Abortion YouTube Video, Full Transcript and the Initial Explanation via Tweetdeck by oudailybore on Dec 2, 2011here's the video, the full transcript and mo twister's explanation via tweetdeck.. here's the transcript of what he said: "ITS 28TH OF JULY 2010, FIRST TIME IM DOING THIS. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY. UM, MAYBE ONE DAY YOU'LL W...

Lecture on Guilt and Remorse by Lichtung / Ang Kaingin on Nov 17, 2011Why do we feel guilt? What makes it possible?We can only feel guilt when we think we did something“wrong” or “evil” or “sinful.” Guilt means knowing and feeling that you did notobey a law, that you transgressed a moral norm or what is acc...

Itagay mo, Dude! by Solopika on Nov 8, 2011“So then, what do you believe in?” “Sex and death – two things that come once in a lifetime… but at least after death, you’re not nauseous.” Woody Allen Light years ang agwat ng sagot sa tanong. Binubuhay ang patay na oras, damd...

The God Within by Lichtung / Ang Kaingin on Nov 5, 2011Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that--one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way,...

Being and Nothingness. Death and Liberation. Halloween and Tradition. by oudailybore on Nov 1, 2011Let us forget first that we are christians, or roman catholics, or whatever religion affiliations we have. Let us assume that we are men of logic. And well, of emotions. Then we pose the question of being and nothingness. What if there is none whatev...

Lecture on Kierkegaard and Nietzsche by Lichtung / Ang Kaingin on Oct 23, 2011I gave a short introductory lecture for my new class on Existentialism last Friday. I thought it proper to begin with philosophers that class took up with me a year ago: Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Supposedly the fathers of Existentialism, without the...

Tolstoy's Parable by Lichtung / Ang Kaingin on Oct 9, 2011from A ConfessionThere is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the beast he gets into a dry well, but sees at the bottom of the well a dragon that has opened its jaws to swallow...

Looking at Death, again… by cesarsalad on Sep 13, 2011Yesterday morning, as I watch Miss Universe in TV, I received a startling text message from a long time friend whom I have never seen for quite some time, “Kuya, wala na si papa..” (Papa is gone..), I was dumbfounded … Continue read...