Originally posted by joe shmo
Wow! your quite articulate and obviously well educated! Now, could you put that into: not well educated, slightly embarrassed I had to use the dictionary, and I'm not quite sure I fully understand,.... terms (otherwise known as lay terms)
Sure (but please, philosophers, do not flame me . .add your own comments constructively)
phenomenological existentialism . . .reality is what you perceive it to be
nihilism and being . . . . nothing and everything, at the same time
beauty and agony . .. a real mismatch that didn't follow logically . .sorry, beauty is "what you see" agony is "what you might happy to feel when confronted with beauty that is everything and nothing at the same time, and unapproachable, for as you go to it, it goes from you
entropy meets infinity . . . . the second law of thermodynamics . .."everything flows downhill, like water, metaphorically" . .. the ever expanding universe . . .(entropy) . .meets . .infinity (just a conceptualization of forever, never ending, unbounded .. . .how can we have a finite universe? where are the boundaries between time, space and matter? for if we are "framed" in a contained space and time, then what is it that is "holding the container" . . . . entropy meets infinity . . .. the universe discovers the ultimate truth of being)