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sundog 05-14-2011 10:18 AM
Re: MALIGNANTLY USELESS
 
As is argued with a quote from Herman Tønnessen in TCATHR (p. 181) it is from "a pursuance of a total view of Man's function - or malfunction - in the Universe, his possible place and importance in the widest conceivable cosmic scheme" that the world is to be considered MALIGNANTLY USELESS. "Intellectual honesty and Man's high spiritual demands for order and meaning may drive Man to the deepest antipathy to life and necessitate, as one existentialist [Peter Wessel Zapffe] chooses to express it: "A no to this wild, banal, grotesque and loathsome carnival in the world's graveyard."

So, there..

DoktorH 05-14-2011 04:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sundog (Post 65141)
As is argued with a quote from Herman Tønnessen in TCATHR (p. 181) it is from "a pursuance of a total view of Man's function - or malfunction - in the Universe, his possible place and importance in the widest conceivable cosmic scheme" that the world is to be considered MALIGNANTLY USELESS.
thanks for digging up the quote! So... trying to grasp man's function or lack thereof in the universe is malignantly useless. Three cheers for ignorant hedonism!

njhorror 05-14-2011 05:53 PM
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If it walks like a duck . . .


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