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DarkMarxSoul t1_iw5ksh4 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A cross between an Existentialist and an Old Testament prophet, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard urged his "single individual" reader to follow the "highest passion" of faith rather than becoming one of the stereotyped pseudo-individuals of "The Crowd" by thelivingphilosophy

That is not what faith is, that's you massively twisting concepts through metaphor to appear profound.

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[deleted] t1_iw8ulnu wrote

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DarkMarxSoul t1_iw8v1ur wrote

It's not a virtue to live life weaseling out of criticism by warping the meaning of words away from their actual meaning and into something you just made up to suit yourself.

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[deleted] t1_iw8vsnh wrote

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DarkMarxSoul t1_iw8w7zm wrote

You can't just make words mean whatever you want. Not only is it disingenuous argumentation, it's bad thinking because you will mentally conflate your own definition you made up with the "normal" definition everyone else has, and that will confuse you internally. It's bad.

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[deleted] t1_iw8xtsz wrote

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DarkMarxSoul t1_iw8y9dh wrote

Because "faith" is an English word and when you use it in an English-speaking context people will engage with you using that definition. You doing what you did is 1) adding confusion to the discussion, and 2) will cause you to operate according to both your personal definition of faith and the common English usage of faith in random ways, because you're human and all humans' brains are flawed.

It's even worse for you because you literally created an amalgamation of a concept between possibly two different ideas, so you will wind up conflating three different ideas, and your own personal definition of faith is functionally useless in all other contexts that aren't you thinking to yourself and feeling all erudite.

Like...it's complete nonsense and has no place here.

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