/lit/ - Literature

Now theres a tripfag dragging Kierkegaard name through the dirt. Fuck this gay board.

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Fuck church, fuck Catholicism, fuck the media, fuck the public, and fuck normies. Quote me and you're dead.

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Despair.

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The absolute state of retards

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>Ironic Christianity
>Not taking the leap of faith

How often do you correct people's grammar and/or pronunciation irl? Do you make sure your friends respect the English language?

>this thread

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>tfw Christian
>halfway through the book

The man is Insaine but I love him

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Something to strive for anon. >>12275811
This.

I have to admit that I never made it past the Don Juan mastrubation in Either/Or.
I like the poems, tho.

>there are Christians on this board who haven't read Kierkegaard
Explain yourselves

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Whoever made that comic strip doesn't understand the existentialist framework he's attacking.

>What if everybody would do that
is not a counter argument. Take a Stiernerian egoist. That's an individual and - unlike Marx or Kant or whoever - he doesn't try to convince everybody that they should adopt this and that very philosophy and act of living. Of course, if it's advantagous that everybody is cucked by some moral code, then that's perfect for the egoist who "standard above it" and can make use of the barriers that others put upon themselves.

Of course, running around and writing "you're spooked" to walls without being in the context of a conversation - that's stupid also and is just what /lit/ turned Stirners ideas into.

But still, to quote the comic
>every group of individuals needs some set of guidelines to seperate harmful and benefitial behaviour
is no argument against an individual adopting an egoist perspective.
Of course, if I'm an egoist, I too want people to form certain restrictions that e.g. prevent them from huring me and one another. But that's just something I want people to impose on themselves, and I'll only follow that rule myself if I find it helpful.
What everybody does, or what everybody should do, that's completely irrelevant from an indvidualist perspective - for example, if you (whoever the reader of this text is right now) consideres the above lines, than YOU can insert yourself in the freed position and let all others follow some rules. The point is that you don't want to impose rules on yourself. But, on the flipside, this also do not mean that you pathologically will not follow the rules. It just means that the rules don't apply to you as rules. They are propositions and of course you'll follow a lot of social morals, because otherwise people will imprison you, or you might feel bad (because you're just human after all) or whatnot. But they don't have to be propositions that you take to actrively restrict you in any way.

Why is it whenever I read anything about Kierkegaard I see him referred to as Lutheran or Protestant?

https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/books/83-kierkegaard.html

>"Protestantism is altogether untenable. It is a revolution brought on by proclaiming 'the Apostle Paul' at the expense of the Master (Christ). If there is to be any question of retaining Protestantism...we confess that this teaching is a mitigation of Christianity which we humans have allowed ourselves, appealing to God to put up with it. And instead Protestantism is blazoned forth as an advance in Christianity! No, it is perhaps the most profound concession to the numerical...this numerality that wants to be Christian but wants rid of ideality or to have it downgraded, and insists upon being such and such a number." (Kierkegaard, Papers and Journals (1996) at 629 -- books.google link to original.)

>“O Luther...the Christianity of the New Testament simply does not exist. Here there is nothing to reform; what has to be done is to throw a light upon a criminal offense against Christianity, prolonged through centuries, perpetuated by millions (more or less guiltily), whereby they have cunningly, under the guise of perfecting Christianity, sought little by little to cheat God out of Christianity, and have succeeded in making Christianity exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.” (Kierkegaard's Attack (ed. Lowrie), supra, at 32-33.)

>"Inasmuch as I have made a critical comment upon 'the Apostle,' the following is to be noted. I am entirely within my rights, for the Apostle [Paul] is only a man....If in the teaching of the Apostle [Paul] there is found even in the slightest degree anything that can be related to what in the course of the centuries has become the sophistic which consumes all true Christianity, I must raise an outcry, lest the Sophists appeal to the Apostle. It is of great importance, especially in Protestantism, to straighten out the prodigious confusion Luther has brought about by inverting the relationship, and in effect criticizing Christ by Paul, the Master by the disciple....What I have done is to hold up Christ’s preaching alongside the preaching of the Apostle." Kierkegaard’s Attack Upon ‘Christendom’ 1854-1855

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fucking catholics

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>church