Fear And Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard

[@digital_urn9250]

Read this book in rehab. Changed everything.

[@geraldpfister3772]

Brilliant Søren Kierkegaard is such a rich blessing! Thank you for providing us all with this audio book.

[@thebigredwagon]

He was just a man. And even intelligent men talk a lot of shit sometimes

[@phattybacon931]

@@thebigredwagon Thank you, I was at risk of thinking he was God Himself before reading your comment.

[@DamienZshadow]

I hadn't even considered the fact that Abraham had to ride all that way on a donkey. Such a pace would have been slow enough to consider regret multiple times along the way! That point is a very well-made considering that it wasn't a simple single act of faith but multiple ones that he made every step along the way of this long journey. To resign oneself to such a choice so adamantly does speak on his resolve albeit towards a choice I wouldn't consider admirable.

[@sereneres]

To me, this is like a meditative writing exercise on non-attachment; the loss of something great with the understanding that the suffering can be surmounted. The "ask" of the sacrifice and the "faith in God" thereafter can perhaps be translated as: the coming up against the realization that all that is great - that you feel personally responsible for in this life - can and/or will be stripped away from you; so how will you respond?

[@SuperAdoo99]

I'm very sorry that it is like that to you.

[@satnamo]

The knight of faith is a dancer with high elevation

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

What an interesting book.

[@Nick.T.A]

Is there any plan to have a reading of the rest of the book?

[@catsaresocute650]

I'll add the poet is the master of memory to my notes later

[@catsaresocute650]

The poet sings to prevent the hero from oblivion and is united with him thorugh that. Indeed why haven't I put that in my notes before

[@Bassothemaster]

He sounds like Daniel Wormald, the nerd form Breaking Bad that drove the hummer

[@dan4271]

38:55 Preliminary Expectoration

[@pawnshop_ghost]

Abraham b wildin fr lmao

[@catsaresocute650]

Anyway this book is so beautifull

[@isiahs9312]

I am only giving Kirky a chance because so many people seem to think he is worth reading. So far I dont see it. Just a bunch of stuff about skydaddy.

[@johnemerick5860]

Reminds me of C.S.Lewis.

[@liltick102]

I share the same opinion on Kierkegaard as Lewis... His existentialist philosophy is not as helpful as say, Aurieiles or Epictetus are to stoicism - but nonetheless undoubtedly worth of getting familiar with / understandably valuable.

[@johnemerick5860]

@@liltick102 you can not trust your own understanding. One day everything you know will be obsolete. Even knowledge has an end. At one point the only thing that matters is did you have love. God is love.

[@liltick102]

@@johnemerick5860 true

[@MyPrivateProperty]

@@johnemerick5860I’ve been doing another read of Ecclesiastes and this reminds me much of its themes.

[@JacksonEverley-f2m]

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[@ObjectiveZoomer]

This is some of the most ridiculous nonsense I've ever heard

[@jannes3290]

Who asked.

[@ClayB05]

Ok zoomer

[@jakobcampbell3837]

Do you have a legit criticism? You’ve made a general comment.

[@liltick102]

I would really like to hear you elaborate

[@thebigredwagon]

So much said of such little worth.

[@1deviousmama333]

Bro Kierkegaard is literally the father of existentialism.

[@thebigredwagon]

@@1deviousmama333 I didn’t get much from him. Unfortunately.

[@aaronaldrich9688]

@@thebigredwagon yeah we know, you’re smarter than Soren Kierkegaard LOL

[@lilzatty9011]

@@thebigredwagon you the type of person to bring a ruler to bed to see how long you slept

[@Nick.T.A]

Kierkegaard is definitely confusing and not the easiest to just pick up. And although Fear and Trembling is one of his shorter works, it is not the best intro to his existential philosophy. Have you taken a look into Either/Or? Although it is anything but concise, it is one of the better was to understand Kierkegaard for someone who does not already know his philosophy.