Existentialism
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Psalm 144:4
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
[SUP]17 [/SUP]Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Isaiah 53:2-3
[SUP]2 [/SUP]For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Psalm 38
1 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
[SUP]21 [/SUP]Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
[SUP]17 [/SUP]Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Isaiah 53:2-3
[SUP]2 [/SUP]For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Psalm 38
1 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
[SUP]21 [/SUP]Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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Back in 1971 or 1972 I took a philosophy class in college. I believe four philosophies were introduced and existentialism was one of them. I think what impressed me, and maybe I'm not remembering this correctly, was that this philosophy is all about the individual - all we can be sure of is ourselves - and that it can be religious or atheistic in nature. To describe it in ten characters or less, let me see: well, I thought it was interesting at the time, but interesting is eleven characters. So I'll use the word : CURIOUS
Oh. In my college philosophy course, which I took about 45 years ago, I seem to remember existentialism being a philosophy where the only thing I know for sure is that I exist. And I think my professor said that some existentialists believe in God and some don't.
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