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dawg day

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2. "Existential crisis" should mean what Sartre meant--

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2020, 11:19 AM

May 2020

The disorientation and panic we feel when we decide that life has no intrinsic meaning and that we have to create it for ourselves.

It should never mean "nuclear warfare-like threat to our very existence."

One would think that these pundits never took a philosophy course.

With you on awesome too. I'm from the "cool" generation, and "awesome" is just too gushy.

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the overused, worn thin words used in our political discussions on TV today... [View all] CTyankee May 2020 OP

Here's one I see a lot on FB and other places mokawanis May 2020 #1

Yes, it's almost there and it better stop or I WILL put it on my list. CTyankee May 2020 #3

'Sez it all Grins May 2020 #11

"Existential crisis" should mean what Sartre meant-- dawg day May 2020 #2

Sartre and existentialism was just becoming "resonant" in this country when I went off to college. CTyankee May 2020 #4

Didn't Camus write "The Plague"????? dawg day May 2020 #6

yes to your question. And here is a nice song for you... CTyankee May 2020 #7

Beautiful-- she's married to Elvis Costello, I think. dawg day May 2020 #12

That is so nice. I love the recorder! Thank you, honey! CTyankee May 2020 #17

"Destroyed" BannonsLiver May 2020 #5

Yes. Enough of "destroyed"! "Demolish" became trite so we got "destroyed." CTyankee May 2020 #8

"Look it up!" Aristus May 2020 #9

"Oh, bless your heart, honey. I didn't think to look it up in the dictionary!" like Dolly Parton CTyankee May 2020 #10

Correct! Grins May 2020 #14

"Look it up" is in the same category as "Many people say---" and "It's been reported---" without, of Atticus May 2020 #16

Gee, I hope that's a good thing...what exactly is it (or is it just something you like to read?). CTyankee May 2020 #18

I took it as a compliment. Aristus May 2020 #23

It was intended as a sincere compliment. Reading is how children discover there is Atticus May 2020 #24

Thank you! Yes, I am a reader. CTyankee May 2020 #26

great topic! dawg day May 2020 #28

Yes. I love it. Things like that are so important and I stop writing and read what other say CTyankee May 2020 #29

Well, yes, sometimes, but there's another side to that coin. Hortensis May 2020 #30

I get annoyed with people who pretend they have less access to Google than I do. dawg day May 2020 #27

Yes, most often passive-aggressive posturing as just truth seeking. Hortensis May 2020 #31

Lashes out, fires back, frustrated Walleye May 2020 #13

In the over-used category: "At the end of the day---", "Thank you for that question" and Atticus May 2020 #15

"Zee garotte!" (said with a French accent of course). CTyankee May 2020 #19

Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace have using the adjective Ilsa May 2020 #20

I'm waiting for "It's becoming more explicable by the day..." CTyankee May 2020 #25

Unprecedented -- seriously, no duh lettucebe May 2020 #21

Bottom line (there's another one!), I wish lastlib May 2020 #22