Rationalizations... and Coffee

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The ressentiment which is establishing itself is the process of levelling, and while a passionate age storms ahead setting up new things and tearing down old, razing and demolishing as it goes, a reflective and passionless age does exactly the contrary: it hinders and stifles all action; it levels. Levelling is a silent, mathematical, and abstract occupation which shuns upheavals. … If the jewel which every one desired to possess lay far out on a frozen lake where the ice was very thin, watched over by the danger of death, while, closer in, the ice was perfectly safe, then in a passionate age the crowds would applaud the courage of the man who ventured out, they would tremble for him and with him in the danger of his decisive action, they would grieve over him if he were drowned, they would make a god of him if he secured the prize. But in an age without passion, in a reflective age, it would be otherwise. People would think each other clever in agreeing that it was unreasonable and not even worth while to venture so far out. And in this way they would transform daring and enthusiasm into a feat of skill, so as ‘to do something, for something must be done.’

Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: A Literary Review (via hollovv)

Source: hollovv

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nomind-allthought:

nonplussedbyreligion:

Kierkegaard

… I don’t think I have ever seen a more ironic post in my entire fucking life.

Congrats New Atheists, you have officially failed at everything.

If it were so, as conceited sagacity, proud of not being deceived, thinks, that we should believe nothing with our physical eyes, then we first and foremost ought to give up believing in love. If we were to do so and do it out of fear lest we be deceived, would we not then be deceived? We can, of course, be deceived in many ways. We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true. We can be deceived by appearances, be certainly are also deceived by the sagacious appearance, by the flattering conceit that considers itself absolutely secure against being deceived. Which deception is more dangerous? Whose recovery is more doubtful, that of the one who does not see, or that of the person who sees and yet does not see? Which is more difficult-to awaken someone who is sleeping or to awaken someone who, awake, is dreaming that he is awake?

Works of Love

More context: This is one of the works Kierkegaard that he signed under his own name which are more religious than the pseudonymous work. This work in particular is designed to lead the reader to his Christian ethic.

Source: deconversionmovement

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nomind-allthought:

Richard Dawkins capitalized God in “The God Delusion.” He still secretly believes that God deserves capitalizing, and is therefore wrong.

CHECKMATE ATHEISTS.

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