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Half way in. Made me really happy, then made me really sad thus far.

Top tier existential writing imo

>> No.6092844

>>6092812
I tried reading that one with the whole Isaac and Abraham story, didn't understand any of it and gave up. How am I supposed to understand a thing?

>> No.6092879

>>6092844
I guess you gotta be raised Catholic to understand. Its about acting on faith and the strength of the absurd instead of reason and logic

>> No.6092912

>>6092879
lol you're a fucking idiot. Catholicism is the only major sect of Christianity which tries to logically justify its own postulates. Orthodox theology, for instance, doesn't waste time trying to prove God exists. If something is a postulate and then you try to prove it, it ceases to be a postulate.

>> No.6093024

>>6092912
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I was taking about understanding the story of Abraham and Isaac

>> No.6093058

>>6092879
>I guess you gotta be raised Catholic to understand.

That's a bold claim, considering Kierkegaard himself wasn't a Catholic.

>> No.6093070

>>6092879
>You gotta be raised Catholic to understand Soren Kierkegaard, the ultra-Lutheran

>> No.6093074

>Kierkegaard
>2015
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and other worlds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>6092879
>>6093058
>>6093070
lel

>> No.6093091

>>6093058
He is accused of being anti-protestant. Same shit with Schelling.

>> No.6093253

>>6093091
>>6093058
>>6093070
I thought he believed faith should be purely personal and didn't really belong to any sect. He refused a priest when he was dying

>> No.6093402

>>6093253
It's a big fuckfest of a gray area, Kierkegaard had problems with faith and renounced stuff all the time.

I concluded it as the relationship between the individual and God (the absurd?), and the ability to act on that strength Instead of reason