The Sickness Unto Death
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the sickness of CNN and G.
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There is a sickness that is unto death, says Soren Kierkegaard in the great book of that title. Both key terms, "sickness" and "death" are used metaphorically it would be said in today's ignorant communication context. This doesn't mean they aren't literal, they refer to a pre-physical condition of something he calls a "soul". We, Americans, have lived under its sway with the election of G.W. Bush (before him: Reagan, Nixon). They are both symptoms, and carriers, of it.
"Only the Christian knows what is meant by the sickness unto death," he says in the Introduction. As to who or what "Christian" is, he says this (leaving aside how you get to be this way): "The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in his tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christiabn heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marvelihg at world history."
Claiming that, and only that, as my ground, I judge that the spirit animating Bush, and whoever does support, follow, promote or tolerate the views surrounding this deliberately arranged blood sacrifice of America, its youth, good name, wealth, future -- soul -- in Iraq, is the sickness unto death of which Kierkegaard spoke.
Of that, David Duke is not guilty. Some on this board are. They try to play word games, as if backers of Bush like Blitzer were CNN Jews; and/or attacks of Bush were KerryCohn Jews, using whatever you may hate about Jews, or haters of Jews, either side, as doubled-reverse negative DEFENSE of Bush. (as if he didn't survive, Rove-wise, by spinning both ends against the middle -- the old double-double reverse-negative special)
But what do I know, just an old retired philo prof.
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http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?p=138302&posted=1#post138302
the sickness of CNN and G.
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There is a sickness that is unto death, says Soren Kierkegaard in the great book of that title. Both key terms, "sickness" and "death" are used metaphorically it would be said in today's ignorant communication context. This doesn't mean they aren't literal, they refer to a pre-physical condition of something he calls a "soul". We, Americans, have lived under its sway with the election of G.W. Bush (before him: Reagan, Nixon). They are both symptoms, and carriers, of it.
"Only the Christian knows what is meant by the sickness unto death," he says in the Introduction. As to who or what "Christian" is, he says this (leaving aside how you get to be this way): "The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in his tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christiabn heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marvelihg at world history."
Claiming that, and only that, as my ground, I judge that the spirit animating Bush, and whoever does support, follow, promote or tolerate the views surrounding this deliberately arranged blood sacrifice of America, its youth, good name, wealth, future -- soul -- in Iraq, is the sickness unto death of which Kierkegaard spoke.
Of that, David Duke is not guilty. Some on this board are. They try to play word games, as if backers of Bush like Blitzer were CNN Jews; and/or attacks of Bush were KerryCohn Jews, using whatever you may hate about Jews, or haters of Jews, either side, as doubled-reverse negative DEFENSE of Bush. (as if he didn't survive, Rove-wise, by spinning both ends against the middle -- the old double-double reverse-negative special)
But what do I know, just an old retired philo prof.
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TexasAnarch
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