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Kierkegaard Goes to Therapy



Therapist: "Welcome, Kierkegaard. What made you decide to get therapy? " Kierkegaard: "Because one day i am going to die." Kierkegaard: "Every moment i am aware of this fact, and belief in a life after death cannot come from reason. Every moment i live i am thrust into despair at having to choose what to do with my brief life, but ultimately knowing that only the void awaits and all my choices are meaningless in the end. This can only be overcome through faith in the eternal, but a new stronger despair haunts us then: we are always aware that faith is irrational, and we can never eradicate the gnawing doubt that we might waste our one life worshiping a God who doesn't exist." Kierkegaard: "Don't you see? The very structure of existence itself is despair, and we cannot escape it." Description: there is a long pause. Therapist: "Have you tried regular exercise?"
"I'll give you some techniques to use whenever you are having thoughts about gnawing void at the heart of our existence."
Philosophers in this comic: Soren Kierkegaard

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