I Am An Existentialist Stories of Experiences

Found this site and forum while searching for Existentialist forums which are about as elusive as a perfect or final definition of Existentialism itself. Aside from forums full of college students trying to understand what they're...

What is the purpose of life? That's the age old question humans have been asking since we evolved the capacity to do so. This is the question that gets stuck on so many people's minds when their life seems to consist of dealing with one...

The angels of God or perhaps even God himself gave the gift of tongues during fervent prayer as church members prayed over me. Nothing came to me and I felt the pressure to produce something that didn't exist at all; I began to speak...

As I sit here drunk and contemplative I also wonder why the earth's 1000+ religions and scientists have not reached a compromising solution to the problem of existence. I myself have figured out the meaning of life some...

Like... I owe you an explaination? I don't owe anyone. Society was awful to me. Religion failed me and so did my peers. often and frequently. I aws bullied awfully and now it turns back around and asks me why It owes me my social...

Last Saturday I was on a senior center trip to a mill. Usually these trips are fun.  But on this one, the driver/tour guide told us about another trip where someone got left behind.  The van did not go back to pick her up.  I asked...

THE EXISTENTIALIST PERSPECTIVE As identified by David E. Roberts in Existentialism and Religious Belief * (1959) Oxford University Press; codified and somewhat updated [and personalized for her own use]**  by Jamarian1...

Hello everyone ,

Firstly I'd really like to say what a fantastic (and important) site I think this is. As a new member I've taken great joy in reading through the very interesting and hugely insightful posts I've come across already...

I believe in the absolute freedom of humans. Even with a gun to your head you are merely coerced towards one option.

I do not believe in a soul or God. They are unnecessary distractions from reality.

I believe life has no inherent...

The best existentialist movie I've seen is Port Djema.  I don't think this film has been issued on DVD or VHS, unfortunately.  But it is probably occasionally still shown at film festivals.   Anyhoo, I was stunned by this movie...

His existential angst is based on his relationship to a deity that precludes choices . Damnation or salvation.
That's awfully reductionist.
But I respect the conflicts he had.

When you throw a belief in a deity into the mix, doesn't it...

Many years ago, in a restaurant with my friends, we discussed philosophy.
At some point, one of my friends exclaimed "Well, you're an existentialist!".

My older brother was a student at a Jesuit college when I was a pre-teen. I'd tear...

A few weeks ago, I decided to look up the word "existensialism" out of curiosity. What I saw in the results had completely enlightened me. After reading several results from several different internent sources, I realized that this...

Fellow beings,First of all: English is not my native language, so if you happen to come across rather unnaturally build sentences, well, then you know why.Actually, I do not specifically want to adress something...I just want to circle...

That's the part of existentialism that makes me really happy. Existentialism says everything we do is motivated by a choice. Everything happens because we choose that thing to happen. Blaming problems on God is just complete and simple...

I resist aligning myself to a philosophy of life but existentialism is so absurd it has always been my favourite.
Four either/or paradoxesLife vs Death -  I don't accept my inevitable death or I wouldn't waste my time doing stuff that...

My main linkage to Existentialism is my questions about the existence oe non-existence of god. I am leaning to non-existence but I think there had to be some sort of creator. Hard for me to reconcil the two ways that I think.

Smoky my cat went and got herself pregnant and for the last few days she has acted odd. She tried to climb in my sock drawer last night and then crawled under my bed covers which she has never done before.

She finally laid down on...

The first time I heard the term existentialiasm was while in deep therapy with a psychologist. He told me that I had an exististentialistic style of thinking and I had no idea what he was even talking about. I was just thinking like I...

to be honest, i'd really love to say im a recovered existentialist. the truth is, i am, at least partly. im not trying to kill myself anymore. not today anyway, and probably not tomorrow. though it wouldnt take much.
i'd like to write...