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"Existential Absurdity" is When a Person Claims a Given State of Affairs, e.g., "Law", as the Reason for Action/Inaction
Police; prosecutorial officers; judges; citizens, all think they can be determined in their actions/inactions "by law".
There is a basis in twentieth century existential ontological rationale regarding how a human act originates, which overthrows the common notion that "law" is determinative of human action and inaction.
Human action/inaction happens only on the basis of the nothing which is the intended, not yet realized, future, of a particular intended project of a particular human being.  Hence, anyone making the claim that existing written "law" is an originative/determinative agent of his or her action/inaction, is mistaken.


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This looks exactly like what you posted in the other thread that was locked.  You may have tightened up the language a bit; it's a little less unintelligible (that's good.)

What is your quest?  Are you here for a discussion, (which seems to have previously run its course), or are you hear to preach?  In either case, this topic seems exhausted already.

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Police; prosecutorial officers; judges; citizens, all think they can be determined in their actions/inactions "by law".


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Sartre has his eye on you



That would require an afterlife, which I'm pretty sure would invalidate most of his writing, so I kinda hope he does.  Pretty chilly in Hel though.

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That would require an afterlife, which I'm pretty sure would invalidate most of his writing, so I kinda hope he does.  Pretty chilly in Hel though.

This will probably blow a certain person's mind but it looks like he had a change of heart at the end.

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According to Pierre Victor (a.k.a. Benny Levy), who spent much of his time with the dying Sartre and interviewed him on several of his views, Sartre had a drastic change of mind about the existence of god and started gravitating toward Messianic Judaism. This is Sartre's before-death profession, according to Pierre Victor: "I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to god."[90] Simone de Beauvoir later revealed her anger at his change of mind by stating, "How should one explain this senile act of a turncoat? All my friends, all the Sartreans, and the editorial team of Les Temps Modernes supported me in my consternation."
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I'm told that's common when, at the edge of the dark, you notice the abyss looking back.

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Besides the joke had more to do with his eyes. He's got that Marty Feldman thing going.
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This looks exactly like what you posted in the other thread that was locked.  You may have tightened up the language a bit; it's a little less unintelligible (that's good.)

What is your quest?  Are you here for a discussion, (which seems to have previously run its course), or are you hear to preach?  In either case, this topic seems exhausted already.
I am without excuse or justification for my being present! Here I am introducing a new phrase, i.e., "existential absurdity". I simply enjoy writing responces. It is actually an infinitely rich subject and nowhere near exhaustion; if people here can be kind and open-minded test subjects...

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Test subjects  :O
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I am without excuse or justification for my being present! Here I am introducing a new phrase, i.e., "existential absurdity". I simply enjoy writing responces. It is actually an infinitely rich subject and nowhere near exhaustion; if people here can be kind and open-minded test subjects...

Now I can't tell if you are a bot or an idiot.  Most bots can spell correctly, but most idiots don't try to use words they don't how to define.

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So what's your response to Sartre apparently having a change of heart before he died?
If you're as you have indicated on this forum and many others a follower of Sartre shouldn't you follow Sartre?
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So what's your response to Sartre apparently having a change of heart before he died?
If you're as you have indicated on this forum and many others a follower of Sartre shouldn't you follow Sartre?
Sartre was absolutely free to express his feeling regarding a creator! Which does not undo his theory of the originative mode of human action.
If you saw another treatise of mine which a member posted on the locked thread, I speak of a creator...

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So you're just picking and choosing parts that you like.
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So you're just picking and choosing parts that you like.
I have not studied everything Sartre ever wrote! ''Being and Nothingness''; ''Search for a Method"; "The Imagination" are the few texts which I have long studied. What of Sartre have you perused?

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Took enough of a look to know it was discredited decades ago. If it really ever had any credit that is.
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The original tractor picture is more of a reconstructive indication of Sartre's true desires.
Islamic sex dolls.  Do they blow themselves up?

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Took enough of a look to know it was discredited decades ago. If it really ever had any credit that is.
Oh, really!? Be specific now. Who discredited B&N!? Where?

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I suggest you change the subject because this is going nowhere again.
You're obviously not convincing anyone here.
No you're not making headway with anyone.
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Oh, really!? Be specific now. Who discredited B&N!? Where?

Why would I bother? You're only here to preach not listen. You haven't listen to a single person yet on any other forum. Why are you here?

Seriously, why are you here?
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Police; prosecutorial officers; judges; citizens, all think they can be determined in their actions/inactions "by law".

I'm with dogmush - I don't think this premise is true at all.

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The original tractor picture is more of a reconstructive indication of Sartre's true desires.

 :laugh:  I almost went with that one.
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