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Some of us gamble on love, skipping from one “love" to another over the surface of existential pain, like a stone skipping over water or like switching channels on the television..
..as long as one can stay above the surface he/she can be perfectly happy; but when an affair ends and everything comes crashing down, one may be desperate for the next leap; sometimes searching for a new partner even at the funeral of the previous one. Yet sooner or later the stone loses vitality and with a final splunk may fall into the depths of tribulation.
It was out of a true understanding of real love that a man such as St. Francis of Assisi prayed that he might seek "not to be loved.. as to 'love' for love is a matter of soul and not of body."
What is “truly sought” is something we all experience as painfully missing from life: some comforting sense of absolute belonging and acceptance. Those who are fortunate get a sense of this feeling as infants, under a parent’s protection. But the feeling is fractured more often than not by parental empathic learning curves and it is lost entirely from ordinary sensory experience as children become older and independent and as the awareness of our essential human isolation and mortality sets in - deeply psychological I know, don't read into it too too much :)
This all goes to show that it’s easy enough to “love” those who “love” us: parents who protect us, “lovers” who make us feel received, public admiration, pets that unconditionally depend on us and who never threaten us.
But can we love those who annoy us . . . irritate us . . . obstruct us . . . scorn us . . . hate us?
Can we love our enemies?
That’s the real test of real love.
In conclusion, the most powerful emotion in the Universe is true love.
It is the cosmic glue that holds everything together.
This perfect, true love is no illusion.
It’s a mystical sort of thing, to feel its power is to feel connected to the Universe
- a truly enlightening experience.
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Day Eight:
I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for your soul today. You're not using it are you? C'mon I'm sure we've had this conversation before. You think you need it for some existential reason that will only become apparent after your untimely or possibly bang on timely demise. But let us think about that for a moment. Are you really sure you're going to be going the right way?
I know you think you're the squeakiest of clean and you're all set for your halo and wings but I are you positive it's not going to be horns and...um...well horns really. Do you really want to get the...erm...cranial protrusions? Yes they look cool. They even give you somewhere to hang your keys and wouldn't you be happier if you sent a little piece of you ahead of time to get acclimatised to the fiery torment that you've got waiting for you?
Did I say fiery torment? What I mean was barbecue lovers paradise. I'm telling you the place smells of cooked meat all year round. So what do you say? A little bit of yes and all your dreams come true for all the time you're on earth before the eternal bliss of fire and pointy pokey things.
How can you possibly say no?
Drastic
I feel the fear
I fear the fear
F E A R
Instinct is a name
Where do you come from?
Why do I fear fear?
HKD
When we are young, life is very drastic
Existential fear
Fear the world
Afraid of outside
Afraid of everything
Afraid of contact
HKD
Angst vor Angriffe
Angst vor dem Leben
Existenzangst
HKD
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"Dark Night of the Soul"
Ceci nous permet de comprendre ce que recouvrent des mots un peu grandiloquents comme angoisse, délaissement, désespoir. Comme vous allez voir, c'est extrêmement simple. D'abord, qu'entend-on par angoisse ? L'existentialiste déclare volontiers que l'homme est angoisse. Cela signifie ceci : l'homme qui s'engage et qui se rend compte qu'il est non seulement celui qu'il choisit d'être, mais encore un législateur choisissant en même temps que soi l'humanité entière, ne saurait échapper au sentiment de sa totale et profonde responsabilité. Certes, beaucoup de gens ne sont pas anxieux ; mais nous prétendons qu'ils se masquent leur angoisse, qu'ils la fuient ; certainement, beaucoup de gens croient en agissant n'engager qu'eux-mêmes, et lorsqu'on leur dit : « mais si tout le monde faisait comme ça ? » ils haussent les épaules et répondent : « tout le monde ne fait pas comme ça. » Mais en vérité, on doit toujours se demander : qu'arriverait-il si tout le monde en faisait autant ? Et on n'échappe à cette pensée inquiétante que par une sorte de mauvaise foi. Celui qui ment et qui s'excuse en déclarant : tout le monde ne fait pas comme ça, est quelqu'un qui est mal à l'aise avec sa conscience, car le fait de mentir implique une valeur universelle attribuée au mensonge. Même lorsqu'elle se masque l'angoisse apparaît. C'est cette angoisse que Kierkegaard appelait l'angoisse d'Abraham.
Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Existentialisme est un humanisme
Explored March 25, 2018
All The World's a Stooge is the 55th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1941 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
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They have no idea what is going on, but, being existential, they just deal with it on their terms.
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To do, uh, um... well, so that I may, um, uh. Uh, it's like this - I'm here to... you know... um, to, uhh...
Some say birds don’t contemplate the nature of existence. This White Wagtail would disagree. Caught mid-stare at a particularly lichen-heavy rock, it appears to be either pondering the meaning of life or just deciding whether the moss looks edible. Tail flick: paused. Inner monologue: active. This is what happens when a hyperactive insect-chaser hits a philosophical wall… literally.
The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
“Certified,Qualified,Underemployed”
She graduated with honors,
a minor in existential dread and a major in “please hire me.”
She used to think “cloud computing” meant working from anywhere.
Turns out it means your job disappears into thin air.
The job market applauded politely and handed her a part-time badge at a mall kiosk
Now she sells scented candles labeled “Entrepreneurial Spirit” that smell faintly of burnt dreams.
The IT bubble had promised her a kingdom—remote work, stock options, kombucha on tap.
Instead, she learned to say,
“Would you like that gift-wrapped?” in three tones:
hopeful, robotic, and spiritually absent.
“LOST” on her left hand.
“SOUL” on her right.
Her hands spell “LOST SOUL,” but management insists she rotate them to spell “SOUL LOST” for better visual merchandising.
The bubble floats on.
She clocks in.
Turns out, it’s the fastest-growing demographic.
© Rajesh Pamnani 2026
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assignment was to do "anything." awesome.
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The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
The Black Rail at the Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge (aka the South Cape May Meadows) forges on, undaunted by the impending lack of cover. A typical rail attitude, sometimes they act like no one can see them even up close and in the open. This rail showed very little concern over the group of photographers and birders not ten feet away.
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness—the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
- Norman Mailer in Writers at Work
Today the We're Here group members are pondering about the meaning of life for the Existential - Picturing the questions {and vice versa} group.
The painter of the scream. Francis Bacon's raw, unsettling works explored the existential agony and biological reality of the human condition. View on SteveHammond.Art