Procrastinating to delay dumbbell squats

[sabrinamari]

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You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” “It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” --Jean-Paul Sartre “It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.” --Blaise Pascal More info at Arocoun's Wikipedia User Page... </td> Existentialism 100% Hedonism 85% Utilitarianism 70% Justice (Fairness) 50% Divine Command 25% Kantianism 20% Strong Egoism 5% Apathy 0% Nihilism 0% What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03) created with QuizFarm.com

Edit: I don't really understand this interpretation of existentialism. I always think of existentialism as personified in Sartre's "No Exit," one of the most depressing plays I've ever read. Not that it doesn't describe much of the last ten years of my life, but well, I always thought that was what I was trying to get away from, to minimize in my person. Maybe I don't really understand existential philosphy.

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[wild-place-king.livejournal.com]

I am in delay mode as well. Yesterday, yes, yesterday, my quads stopped hurting from the workout routine you showed me on *Saturday*. I thought that I had strong legs! Was I ever wrong! I am going to work my upper body today and legs, back and gluts tomorrow and thenceforward do LBG every other day.

Luck to you moving out of delay.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Bill, I have been worried about your LBG a little bit, because I knew your body would be shocked at the power of the new routine. Just think: you do have strong, well-developed leg and glute muscles already. What would have happened had you not?

I worked you harder than usual because I had only that hour and a half in which to try and teach your body strong form. I knew this one session would have to be the basis for body memory. If I had been staying there longer, we would have been gentler, because I could have spread the sessions out over time.

Anyway, good for you that you're going to keep pushing even though leg day is actually a gloss for "really really hard day"!

Go!

OK, on to squats, walking lunges, calf raises and back.

[wild-place-king.livejournal.com]

Yes! I will and happily. Thank you for *all* of you help

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I love the book. It's just the sort of thing I like, up there with backrubs and foot rubs and soft blankies and things that smell good. : )

[dawningday.livejournal.com]

There's a really nice comment about Existentialism toward the beginning of the film "Waking Life." (Many people love the movie, many people hate the movie - I happened to love it, but that's just me, and it has no bearing on this.) One of the characters comments that Sartre (I'm pretty sure it was Sartre) said that he'd never really had an unhappy day in his life. One of the Existentialists (I forget which one - modern philosophy was always more my dad's area) also stated that one should behave as though every action were to be turned into a law that all beings would have to follow - certainly something to inspire positivity, in my estimation.

Existentialism is really a very pagan/mystic philosophy, in my mind. It focuses largely on the fact that the individual is ultimately the only source of authority. That individual can choose to give that authority to something else, but doesn't have to. We create the meaning in our lives.

In some ways, I really think that Existentialism was Western Thought's last stop before swallowing itself in Post-Modernism. In an objective world, the only thing you can really say objectively without bias is that you're subjective. To me, that's the core message of Existentialism: I am a subject; I have agency.

Certainly more cheery than some of the post-modernists I've read.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thank you. This is a very different take than the one that I absorbed.

existentialism

[yoga-matt.livejournal.com]

Existentialism is an entire branch of psychology, cutting across namy of the subfields; but especially Clincal and Social Psychology. It is most often conceptualized as the quest for meaning in life.

Re: existentialism

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Is this overlapping with/emerging from the philosphical school most popularized by Sartre?

A few thoughts on Existentialism.

[quiet-wyatt72.livejournal.com]

Existentialism is an attitude, not a doctrine. It tends to be suspicious of doctrines. Prominent existentialists can be found all over the philosophical and political spectrum.

If there is anything that holds existentialists like Sartre, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Martin Buber, and Gabriel Marcel together, its that humans don't have a pregiven stable essence, like "rationality."

Some think, like Sartre, than "man is a useless passion."

Others, like the Protestant Christian Soren Kierkegaard, think that the Self is a constant tension between necessity and possibility. You might call this the "Rubberband Girl" school of thought. :-)

Some, like Nietszche, see just pure change and power at the "core" of the Self.

Others, like the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, see no Self, except that which acts in different modes at different times. When a person interacts normally in the world (Subject-Object)- that is a relationship of "I-It."

When a person is addressed and *drawn* into the wider grounding world of Relation (like during a religious experience) for Buber that is called an "I-Thou" relation.

All of these are very different types of Western Existentialism. Its a long dissident modernist tradition--a tradition of protean mutability sometimes called a "groundless ground." It tends to be suspicious of absolute knowledge, certainty, ego, and progress--especially in the face of death.

There are some connections to Buddhism, as you no doubt can see. Heidegger once claimed that Zen Buddhism was a way of doing what he'd always been writing about. There is a reason that lots of cool people have been drawn to both Existentialism and Buddhism. Many think of them as fundamentally pessimisstic. But you know that's not true of Buddhism. And its no more true about Existentialism.

Anyway I hope this makes sense. Existentialism is not easy to talk about in a few words. Ask me for more info on the phone sometime.

Or watch the Wim Wenders movie "Wings of Desire." That's a great optmistic existential movie.

Re: A few thoughts on Existentialism.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Wow---this really helps me, bunny! I love "Wings of Desire" and I love the soundtrack to it even more. I sometimes fall asleep at night listening to it. The soft murmur of the German trapeze artist is especially lovely for that falling asleep time...

I do appreciate your clarification of the connection between Buddhism and Existentialism. You are the best little brother anyone could have.

And I will get the documents I need to get you my durable power of attorney, living will, etc., in the next month. Please remind me if I forget. Mom and dad just wouldn't be able to do this without profound mental wierdness to accompany their pain.