you can use this word in pretty much any context and it will make you sound pretentious and/or confuse the person you're talking to.
it's a technique refined and highly over-utilized by pseudo-intellectuals.
it's a technique refined and highly over-utilized by pseudo-intellectuals.
"thoughts of existentialism breezed through my cavern of a mind as i walked under the concave arches in the courtyard of my prestigious university."
"there i was, caught in an existential dilemma. i decided to run the red light."
"i felt that the existentialist undertones in the simpsons represented the decay of religion in society."
"there i was, caught in an existential dilemma. i decided to run the red light."
"i felt that the existentialist undertones in the simpsons represented the decay of religion in society."
by kirkegaard March 6, 2006
Existentialism is the reason why the people with the highest I.Q.s in the world go traveling in tibet then become garbagemen.
"I used to think Eistein was smart, then I read about existentialism and I don't beleive in the word smart anymore."
by matthhhhew December 12, 2006
there is a spoon
but you don't have to acknowledge it if you don't particularly want to.
see wickywicky
and then click on my other definitions by patty-o-pinch-me-youdie
but you don't have to acknowledge it if you don't particularly want to.
see wickywicky
and then click on my other definitions by patty-o-pinch-me-youdie
i practise exdfcansdfndsjfism
you mean existentialism?
yeah
oh...dumbass.
what! i can do whatever i want!
doesnt change that fact that you're a dumbass..
you mean existentialism?
yeah
oh...dumbass.
what! i can do whatever i want!
doesnt change that fact that you're a dumbass..
by patty-o-pinch-me-youdie May 17, 2004
by m slaw January 28, 2008
The other definition here is correct to a certain extent but it is really much more than that. It stresses individuality and freedom of choice but it also stresses an individuals responsibility to the choices he makes. Also discards all religion as a means to control human behavior. Existentialism is still a current movement but its most influential members came in the early 1900's. They include Sartre, Camus and Dostoevsky.
by BurgLyke October 12, 2003
The conundrum that will is a real phenomenon appearing from a false meta-state (materialism) and sense is a false phenomenon appearing from a real meta-state (sensualism).
The inability (and representational necessity) of a human being to tell the difference between individual will and sense or to confuse will FOR sense.
The conundrum of existentialism is equivalent to the a priori/a posteriori problem.
In contrastive religion, the sensualist divergence between Judaism and Hinduism.
The inability (and representational necessity) of a human being to tell the difference between individual will and sense or to confuse will FOR sense.
The conundrum of existentialism is equivalent to the a priori/a posteriori problem.
In contrastive religion, the sensualist divergence between Judaism and Hinduism.
Existentialism poses a conundrum: is sense will or is will sense?
It turns out that sensualISM is representationally individual will and collective will is meta-representationally individual sense.
Meta (self) - representation or tautology is the meta-state behind the existential conundrum.
It turns out that sensualISM is representationally individual will and collective will is meta-representationally individual sense.
Meta (self) - representation or tautology is the meta-state behind the existential conundrum.
by sandrashine September 3, 2018
Existentialism is essentially about having to make choices. Every action and every non-action is the result of a choice to do, or not to do, something. The summation of those decisions - to act or not to act - is you - who you are.
"I was only following orders". Not so, you have the choice to follow or not to follow the orders. Only YOU can make the choice.. Your life is a succession of decisions. And those decisions create who you are.
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by R McLachlan December 28, 2004