Why The USA Abhors Existentialism
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May The World Congress for Existential Therapy is hosting a conference in London…
Category Authenticity
Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fix
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.” ― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Most people are aware of the fight or flight response that people may have to…
Sesquipedalian Trepidation.
Revelation is marked by mystery, eternal happiness by suffering, the certitude of faith by uncertainty, easiness by difficulty, truth by absurdity; if this is not maintained, then the esthetic and the religious merge in common confusion. … The religious…
The Ukraine and Kansas University
*This post contains quotes which have strong language. Just thought you should know.* Recently, KCUR (Kansas Public Radio) did a story on a professor that was fired from Kansas University for expressing a view that was in conflict with…
Indebted Love: Part B
“The essential characteristic of love: That the lover by giving infinitely comes into – infinite debt.” Kierkegaard, Works of Love, 2006, p. 172. I truly enjoy Star Wars. To clarify, I enjoy the “real” Star Wars (episodes IV-VI). I…