You can see from these few reflections that nothing could be more unjust than the objections people raise against us. Existentialism is nothing else but an attempt to draw the full conclusions from a consistently atheistic position. Its intention is not in the least that of plunging men into despair. And if by despair one means as the Christians do – any attitude of unbelief, the despair of the existentialists is something different. Existentialism is not atheist in the sense that it would exhaust itself in demonstrations of the non-existence of God. It declares, rather, that even if God existed that would make no difference from its point of view. Not that we believe God does exist, but we think that the real problem is not that of His existence; what man needs is to find himself again and to understand that nothing can save him from himself, not even a valid proof of the existence of God. In this sense existentialism is optimistic. It is a doctrine of action, and it is only by self-deception, by confining their own despair with ours that Christians can describe us as without hope.
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
“Kinderfeld” by Marilyn Manson
He lives inside my mouth
And tells me what to say
When he turns the trains
On he makes it go away
The hands are cracked and dirty and
The nails are beetle wings
When he turns the trains on he
Unties all of the strings
[The worm:]
“Tell me something beautiful,
Tell me something free,
Tell me something beautiful
And I wish that I could be.”
(Then I got my wings and I never even knew it,
When I was a worm, thought I couldn't get through it)
[Jack (not spoken):]
Come, come
The toys all smell like children
And scab-knees will obey
I'll have to kneel on broomsticks
Just to make it go away
[The inauguration of the worm]
(Then I got my wings and I never even knew it,
When I was a worm, thought I couldn't get through it)
[A voice we have not yet heard:]
“Because today is black
Because there is no turning back.
Because your lies have watered me
I have become the strongest weed” weed...
[Through jack's eyes:]
The taste of metal
Disintegrator
Three holes upon the leather belt
It’s cut and swollen
And the age is showing
[Boy:] “There’s no one here to save ourself.”
[The disintegrator (to himself):]
This is what you should fear
You are what you should fear
1 comment:
The fallacy that is most widely propagated is that we can be saved. It's a curious illusion. One that has no man behind the curtain. No specific cause to point to and say, "I have to escape that."
The cake is a lie.
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