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Freedom of choice is the only real freedom that any of us truly have ever considered. I riseley that maybe we should have a say in this matter. Freedom of choice was imposed on us. This is a central idea in the topic. Want to be clear about today, which is existential philosophy. I've been studying existentialism for roughly the last six years or so now. It's something I've a passion for. I don't consider myself an existentialist. I don't want myself any political or religious or social or philosophical movement at all.

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Are some ideas in it that I agree with, but I'm not part of any specific anything study either.

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Most people think of philosophy as something that has very little relevance in their everyday lives. They don't see you as having a practical application. The thing about philosophy is that while it won't teach you how to do very practical things, it will help you come to terms with the bigger answers to the bigger questions of life or the lack of answers there. But it can change your perspective on life at such a insane degree that it makes you rethink how you do the most basic things, why you get up in the morning.

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Existentialism had any point as a philosophy, can we help people live authentically?

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Other key concepts and existentialism are the ideas, subjectivity and existence preceding essence. So to begin with, it's paramount that we understand what a subjective view of reality is. We all live in this objective view of the world. We all live in an objective world. So this marker is bluegill seamans, marker's, blue hogger. Each of us has a different association with color blue. We all live in a subjective experience of reality and we all live in our own fantasies.

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It's all filtered that we distort reality and orbit every time to be thinking. We undermine it in that way. We have total control over the subjective experience of reality. So we have total freedom over our experience of reality. We're slaves to this freedom. We are bound to this freedom break a certain 1957 existentialism, human emotions, since we are stuck in this subjective view of reality and since we are totally free to experience it as we choose to. We are completely accountable to ourselves.

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We are responsible for ourselves and how we experience reality. We cannot escape our free, subjective experience so we can or cannot escape our accountability for our experience of reality.

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Those are very personal ideas, very intimate with our own personal, individualized experience of reality and make great assumptions about human experience. We can take a step back from that and some more abstract presumptions that we're making. First of all, there's the idea that existence precedes Essence. This basically just means that, well, you would means you are born.

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We come on the scene and we are arbitrary objects, basically, and then we decide from that point on where what what qualities we're going to apply ourselves, what features we're going to apply to ourselves.

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We we define ourselves in this.

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Again, this is just for the sake of argument. We're making the presumption that there is no God or possibly God existed as a form of morality that we created that then fell in upon itself and died because of its own intrinsic flaws. That's just a presumption we're making for the sake of argument, necessarily. I mean, I think not necessarily something that what you think. But if we assume that there is no God and that life is meaningless and void of any purpose, that we're all going to die.

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And this means that life is absurd and ridiculous. And according to Kirkegaard, either word 1843, citing religion, etc., these things do not give life its meaning of purpose. Meaning and purpose in life are put out something that we place on our own individual experience of it by our choice, not something that we choose to give to life at this point left in looking at life as something, it's kind of hilariously silly and stupid because we give it its own meaning.

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And there is no intrinsic value to it. According to some, it is not necessarily the case.

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You can be left in a state of either affirmation or negation of life.

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There are different ways people can debate life. If you look at our youth today, a lot of people take on that YOLO view. You only live once, so you may have more wasted. It's all about you. It's all about pleasure and real happiness. It doesn't matter what happens, future generations or how you affect other people. That's a negation of life. Another way to gang life is by seeing it as something to be just depressed about because it doesn't have any meaning, because it doesn't have any value there.

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However, you can affirming. You can look at it as an open canvas. Since you were twenty three, you were totally responsible. You are totally in control of your life. It's up to you to determine how you want to experience it. We can always control what happens to us and always control our experience of it. We can't control how we interpret life and how we perceive it so that we can come to the idea of authenticity. We can reach that authenticity.

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Basically, that means you're living in accordance with your own beliefs, personality, feelings, what's etc. what have you. And being aware of your limitations. You're basically being true to yourself according to who you are and without allowing external forces to limit your own freedom. Being authentic is something that varies from moment to moment. You're only as authentic as we are at any given second. I'm not authentic. It's really. I don't know. When it is, it's impossible basically to come to this day of authenticity.

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Almost a good example of an authentic being would be a wild animal.

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They don't have inhibitions. And although they're a slave, they're slaves to their instincts. They also exist without self-consciousness. And so while they lack self-awareness to be authentic, they are true to themselves. And they're intervening in the opposite of authenticity is the concept of bad faith, which is basically any form of lying to yourself or self-deception, groupthink or conformity.

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Conformity can be an aspect of bad faith. It's always been groupthink. For instance, maybe have you in school had to do group projects and you just all I remember doing this personally, I would just come to the point where we would just all agree about something for the sake of getting it over with, regardless of what we actually thought or arguing about it. We compromise. Blame yourself any way, shape or form is for a bad faith. So when you guys understand existentialism in terms of its basic tenets now, I hope that nothing else by it will interesting by philosophy.

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Interesting is we learn about respect. All of your own beliefs. I'm not trying to impose anything on you. I just. This is something that I have a passion for learning about and see. You control your own experience of reality. W. side. But they're not going to be free if you decide to give up your freedom. That's choice. Never escape your freedom. Let go or be direct.