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Wed 1 Apr, 2009 08:16 pm
would an existentialist change a lightbulb?
How many existentialists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to change the lightbulb and one to observe how the lightbulb symbolizes an incandescent beacon of subjectivity in a netherworld of Cosmic Nothingness.
karmann is spelled incorrectly, I believe...
(Shirley you have experts around you who will tell us)
i know little of light bulbs other than the wet finger test.
I know Kierkegaard wouldn't -- just not in his nature.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just light a candle?
@dyslexia,
Kundera uses Friedrich Nietzsche's doctrine of the Eternal Return to illustrate Lightbulb-ness; regardless of what the Existentialist may do, the bulb will burn out over and over again for all eternity.