#Christian Existentialism

[philosophybits]

They have no right to speak for freedom, who recognize freedom only for themselves and their friends.

Nikolai Berdyaev, Christian Existentialism

#philosophy #quotes #Nikolai Berdyaev #Christian Existentialism #freedom #liberty #equality

[sororalice]

“Is the absence of inwardness also lunacy? The objective truth as such does not at all decide that the one stating it is sensible; on the contrary, it can even betray that the man is lunatic, although what he says is entirely true and especially objectively true.” -Søren Kierkegaard, “Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments”

#philosophy #soren kierkegaard #kierkegaard #epistemology #christian existentialism #existentialism

[marcella-delaney]

If faith is understood as belief that something is true, doubt is incompatible with the act of faith. If faith is understood as being ultimately concerned, doubt is a necessary element in it.

Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith, pg. 21

#paul tillich #liberal protestantism #christian existentialism #evangelical lutheranism

[geopolicraticus]

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Nikolai Berdyaev and Eschatological Providentialism  

Monday 18 March 2024 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March, Old Style 06 March, 1874 – 24 March 1948), who was born in Obukhov, near Kiev, on this date in 1874.

Berdyaev was a Russian aristocrat who became a Marxist and then a Christian, and who always seemed to find himself on the wrong side of the authorities in his homeland. Berdyaev applied his Christian personalism to philosophical anthropology and produced a philosophy of history that raises eschatology over salvation history. Like the thought of Simone Weil, this is a providential philosophy of history with a difference.

Quora:             https://philosophyofhistory.quora.com/ 

Discord:          https://discord.gg/r3dudQvGxD

Links:              https://jnnielsen.carrd.co/

Newsletter:     http://eepurl.com/dMh0_-/

Podcast:          https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nick-nielsen94/episodes/Nikolai-Berdyaev-and-Eschatological-Providentialism-e2h9212

Text post: https://geopolicraticus.substack.com/p/nikolai-alexandrovich-berdyaev

#philosophy of history #youtube #Nikolai Berdyaev #providentialism #Christian existentialism #eschatology #existentialism #Youtube

[veryintricaterituals]

Something about Good Omens from a Jewish perspective, something about Crowley, about questions, something about how we are not in heaven, about how we get to decide the rules here on Earth, something about discussion, about wrestling with G-d, and something about how G-d is outnumbered and doesn't get a say, something about how "heaven" and "hell" don't really matter, about trying to make things better from the context of our lives, something about leaving the world a better place than you found it, something about drinking and enjoying life right here and now, something about "they tried to kill us and failed, let's eat".

#mr gaiman is Jewish and i see it #Thinking about Good Omens from a Jewish perspective has me unwell and in the midst of an existential crisis a few days before Rosh Hashanah #and i think that's beautiful #and very Jewish of me personally #the way a show about the very christian Armageddon has me questioning and falling in love with jewish philosophy again is very sexy #jewish #rosh hashanah #good omens #jewish omens #neil gaiman #mine #jewblr #Judaism

[seraphim-eternal]

Tomorrow will worry about itself; today has enough trouble of it's own.

#catholic #existentialism #moodboard #philosophy #poetry #quotes #religious trauma #dark acedemia #light academia #light moodboard #black and white #art #Bible #bible quote #Christian #faith #Jesus #God #church #cathedral #painting #history

[ophelias-rue]

Need to start a book club for people who like Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Rilke, Nietzsche. Also just to hang out on a discord server or something and be friends. I would like a close little group of friends, God knows it’s a lonely world, but I don’t think it has to be.

I’ve been reading The Idiot and I’m desperate to share my outpouring of feelings with someone. :^)

#classic literature #russian lit #dostoevsky #the idiot #crime and punishment #the brothers karamazov #rainer maria rilke #friedrich nietzsche #soren kierkegaard #existentialism #philosophy #book clubs #errrrr be my friend please #be my kindred spirit #no use being subtle about it #I think my kindred spirits must go on tumblr #I want the existentialists the melancholics the Christian mystics the free spirited artists #the armchair philosophers the fucked up pretentious intellectuals

[pursuingtheway]

...therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

the old has passed away;

behold,

the new has come.

2 Cor

*

#poetry #qoutes #life quotes #poem #writers and poets #art #writing #writerscommunity #bible verse #existential crisis #quotes #love quotes #love poem #philosophy #christianity #jesus christ #phases #feelings #sad thoughts #thoughts #deep thoughts #sad quotes #sad poetry #sad poem

[alexandra-scribbles]

Okay so I have been having thoughts so I shall burden ya’ll with them.

1. Could Jesus… be considered a demigod/half blood?

2. If the religious fanatism of the Catholic/Christian movement hadn’t erased other religions to the point of calling them ‘Myths and Lore’… could an argument be done on behalf of Jesus’ conception being similar of that of Zeus’ previous known and preferred ways to conceived children?

3. The known oldest biblical texts in existence (the silver scrolls) are dated 700-650 BCE. Why is it that Christianism/Catholicism was allowed to continue to expand when at the same time in other parts of Europe and Africa (And possibly the early American cultures that no one know about but that possibly had their own deities) cultures had their own religions and gods that got erased and labeled as fake by Christianism/Catholicism?

4. Why does Christianism gets to erase other deities and proclaim theirs as the one true religion?

5. Like sure, we get the story of Jesus and what he did… but we also know of the stories of Perseus, Hercules, Jason, who were also sons of ‘gods’… what’s up with that?

6. The sumerian tablets (with their own mithology) predate the bible by about 3000 years. Why are those not deemed as real why call their content mythology?

7. I just want to know how Catholicism/Christianism managed to basically erase everything else and remain the one thing that’s considered ‘true’ faith.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. If any of you have answers or thoughts that you might want to share. I am all ears (eyes).

#philosophy #religion #lore #mithology #questions #greek mythology #catholiscism #christianity #christianism #sumerian mythology #night blogging #life questions #no sleeep #existentialism #existential crisis #demigods #jesus #hercules #perseus #jason #zeus

[in-sufficientdata]

Ho ho, hey hey

In absolutely no fucking universe is this okay

Incidentally, the original tweet now includes a follow-up that points out the weakest of weaksauce justifications for his rhetoric

It's so weaksauce he sounds sarcastic

Which is actually hilarious but in a sad, angering way

#mine #twitter #antisemitism #religion #judaism #christianity #evangelicals #fundamentalism #exvangelical #this account is gone so i'm not going to make a tag for it #this guy sucks and he should feel bad in an fundamentally existential way #reposting everything from my twitter feed #i'm about to delete everything so get it while it's hot #tweet: 2022 #evangelism

[neonatenecromancer]

How to tell if your guardian angel is gay!

#poetry #literature #art #philosophy #existentialism #aesthetic #commentary #expression #love #poetry of tumblr #gay art #queer community #queer history #religion #christianity #religious #gay rights

[philosophybits]

Freedom demands that man maintain his dignity and purity, that he control himself.

Nikolai Berdyaev, Christian Existentialism

#philosophy #quotes #Nikolai Berdyaev #Christian Existentialism #freedom #autonomy #character #virtue #ethics

[sororalice]

“Much that is strange has been said about Christianity, much that is lamentable, much that is outrageous, but the most obtuse thing ever said is that it is true to a certain degree. Much that is strange has been said about enthusiasm, much that is lamentable, much that is outrageous, but the most obtuse thing said about it is that it is to a certain degree. Much that is strange has been said about erotic love, much that is lamentable, much that is outrageous, but the most obtuse thing said about it is that it is to a certain degree.” -Søren Kierkegaard, “Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments”

#spiritual #spirituality #mystical #mysticism #religion #philosophy #soren kierkegaard #kierkegaard #christian existentialism #book quote #quotation #quotes #quote #christianity #faith #love

[marcella-delaney]

Anxiety, one says, appears under special conditions but is not an ever-present implication of man’s finitude. Certainly anxiety as an acute experience appears under definite conditions. But the underlying structure of finite life is the universal condition which makes the appearance of anxiety under special conditions possible. In the same way doubt is not a permanent experience within the act of faith. But it is always present as an element in the structure of faith.

Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith, pg. 24

#paul tillich #dynamics of faith #liberal protestantism #liberal theology #christian existentialism

[skinks]

BT-7274 is God? Question mark?

Ok I was semi-joking about there being Christ allegories for BT in Titanfall but the more I think about it… he’s a figurehead of a rebellion, and his mortal human equivalent he selects to be a vessel of his will/mission is Jack Cooper. JC.

The giant and horrifically powerful, alien artefact they discover about to be used as a weapon is named the Ark. When the IMC attempted to harness its power at first, BT says some of the remaining bodies have “aged unusually,” and their facility was destroyed.

Special Operation 217 is their mission to stop the IMC from using the Ark to destroy Harmony, BT tells Cooper they are “duty bound” to complete it.

Hidden manna apparently means like, being saved? If humans (Jack) can help BT carry out the plan and overcome the IMC’s sin then BT will save them all and reward Jack with the “white stone”, which is supposed to represent a special and secret kinship with God.

Before he is fully destroyed, BT first sustains a wound on one side

after which he is murdered, then resurrected through Jack’s loyalty, then chooses to die of his own accord in order to save humankind and Harmony, because I guess they didn’t want to call the planet Peace.

BT’s “Holy Spirit” is his super-advanced AI, which he can transfer to Jack “in order to permit communication across time shifts”

and which he uses to communicate with his beloved human across time and space even once his physical form is consumed by the Ark. See: special secret kinship

Cooper’s helmet flashing J A C K ? in binary code.

Now finally; 7274

BT is a Vanguard class titan, the first mechs created solely by the Militia and possessed of the most advanced learning capabilities of any titan. Fashioned and given understanding so that they may obey the laws of the Militia’s commandments, so that they will be glad when they see BT because he represents hope? Humans as the gods of machines? Created in their image to save the world?

BT = BATTLE TRINITY????

#titanfall 2 #wake up babe I just dropped my most insane post on record #BT-7274 #jack cooper #I’m not Christian in the slightest I just came back from seeing Jesus Christ Superstar and thinking about all of this is VERY funny to me #even though theological/existential implications of the Vanguard AI is something I’d love to explore in fic. I am not smart enough

[trans-cuchulainn]

hi! we dont know each other but ive stumbled upon your posts in which you describe your anxiety brain and borrowing trouble from the future and i can totally relate to that. and it sounds a lot like ocd, which i know i have... idk if this would be helpful

sometimes i do see things about ocd that i relate to. i think a lot of the underlying thought patterns and fears are probably similar. i don't think i respond to them in the way that somebody with ocd does, though -- i don't experience compulsions and don't find any relief from behaving in certain ways or performing certain rituals, i just experience profound dread and physical discomfort until i'm able to forget about the thing that triggered the anxiety or i move on to something else

my sister has ocd, which i only learned recently (we don't live together and aren't super close), but again, although i see overlap between our experiences, i think we respond to those triggers differently and find different things helpful/harmful. obviously everyone is different so that doesn't rule out the possibility that i'd also have it, but i think it makes it less likely

generally i think my issues are largely attributable to generalised anxiety disorder, some kind of brainweirds (not sure if autistic or have adhd or both), and a solid dose of complex trauma that contributes a fair amount of hypervigilance and fear to the proceedings which make standard anxiety tactics less helpful

i think all mental health diagnoses are labels we give to certain groups of symptoms rather than like. firmly grouped Conditions between which there can be no overlap, though. some aspects of anxiety and ocd are very similar, and some are different -- the same stars in different constellations. i think i score more points in the anxiety chart, so that's where i am for now, but doesn't mean i'm not experiencing some of the same things, if that makes sense (and it also doesn't mean that some coping mechanisms designed for one condition won't work just because i don't think i fit under that label -- sometimes they do)

#in this current situation i think i'm experiencing a heady dose of needing (and failing) to mask neurodivergence #AND pretend to be cis AND the overwhelming drive to Be Helpful and Be A Good Neighbour which feels existentially important #especially amidst the horrors of the world since i can help with so few large-scale things so the small ones start feeling like proxies #plus the christian upbringing. can't forget that. it's definitely a factor. good samaritan sleeper agent activated at cost to myself #while also being too chronically ill AND too anxious to be capable of handling any of those things on their own let alone all of them #and while logic brain tells me i can just say no. other logic brain tells me that doing so would be leaving a vulnerable person isolated #and compassion brain won't let me do that. but compassion brain needs to apply to me as well and mostly... doesn't #and that's the part i need therapy about lol #sometimes it's not so much religious/moral OCD as having grown up actually extremely religious #they look very similar but the underlying mechanisms and brain patterns are subtly different. #brainweasel hotel