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Angst is the dread that accompanies an examined life.

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martian3 4 May 22
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Level 7

to me Angst is an immature construction intended to be an excuse for underachieving ...

blzjz Level 7 May 22, 2018
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That reads a bit condescending.

@snytiger6 perhaps but equally true....
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Level 7

It's an interesting idea, nicely put, but my view is that it doesn't have to be dread. It can also be surprise and fascination.

i've usually associated it with regret or lost opportunities.
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Level 9

Some people ask the question WHY? and others don't.

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Level 5

Naw it isn't, it's the first part of a question, as in "Angst you's goin' to the store?"

I thought that was really stretching for a joke... which kind of reminded me of this scene from a Marx Brothers Movie.

@TedGresham997
Angst that a bitch?
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Level 7

"Angst is the dread that accompanies an examined life"

What is dread is confronting the reality our own death,

Freud said
“In biological functions the two basic instincts operate against each other or combine with each other. Thus, the act of eating is a destruction of the object with the final aim of incorporating it, and the sexual act is an act of aggression with the purpose of the most intimate union. This concurrent and mutually opposing action of the two basic instincts gives rise to the whole variegation of the phenomena of life”

Confronting the reality of our death drives our desire to create.

cava Level 7 May 22, 2018
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Level 4

I somewhat agree with that statement.

Deemo Level 4 May 22, 2018
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Level 7

Maybe a symptom of living in the past instead of the here and now.

living in the past makes the now trivial and the future impossible
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Level 8

Who's Alice?

Coldo Level 8 May 22, 2018
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Gotta love Brian

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Level 6

I'd have to admit I resemble that statement.

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Level 7

Is that the corollary to, "Ignorance is bliss"?

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Level 7

I think I don't believe that.

Hey! I'm agnostic! 😉

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