When I came across the novel "The Stranger" and more like "The Plague" by French writer Camus impressed me the whole message transmitting existentialist philosophy: man is a being for death, the existence has no meaning and the living is but a useless passion, humans are just mere products of chance and live in a permanent orphanage ... Recently, the Methodist pastor Howard Mumma, a friend of the Nobel Prize of Literature, published his discussions with Albert Camus and the way was gradually converting to Christianity. In this long journey in search of truth, Albert Camus wrote: "If you do not believe in anything, if nothing makes sense and if you can find nowhere any value, then everything is permitted and nothing matters. "So it would appear that there is nothing good or bad, and Hitler had no reason or unreason. It does not matter to drag the crematorium to millions of innocent people who devote themselves to patient care. "The dead can honor them or they can be treated as garbage. Everything has the same value then ... "If nothing is true or false, nothing good or bad, if the only value is the ability, can be taken only one rule: to become the most able, ie the strongest. In this case, no longer divided the world into the righteous and unrighteous, but masters and slaves. Dominates is right. " As you read this shocking statement Camus, I came to mind so many laws or measures that governments and legislators have been imposed in Western societies and that go against human dignity, such as abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, experiments with human embryos, the matrices for rent, sterilizations mass (which is often practiced these tubal ligation against the will of the same women!) ... Because if you do not respect the person and their basic rights, then only is the law of the jungle. When he began his literary career, Albert Camus believed in the "philosophy of the absurd" but, over the years, recognized that this approach was impractical and even vital unimaginable. Why? Because he realized that some behaviors are better than others. "Most human problems arise when man attempts to replace God," says Camus. In 1946, a journalist of "Le litteraire" stated that he sought truth and reasoning that would allow it to conclude the validity of human actions. Camus later wrote an article titled: "If God does not exist." Some time later, as a result of these friendly conversations in Paris with Mumma Protestant pastor, said: "Fortunately I was wrong." Today we know that the relentless search for the meaning of human existence, finally found it. The title of this book by Howard Mumma is "The Existentialist jaded. Conversations with Albert Camus, "Editorial" Vozdepapel "collection" Veritas. " Without doubt, a testimony of great current interest. Camus's Last Words Mumma his friend before he died in a car accident, were: "My friend, I will continue striving to reach the faith". I believe that would have to resize the literary works of Albert Camus with this new perspective offered in his book the pastor. Monday, April 4, 2011
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The writer Albert Camus found a meaning in their lives
When I came across the novel "The Stranger" and more like "The Plague" by French writer Camus impressed me the whole message transmitting existentialist philosophy: man is a being for death, the existence has no meaning and the living is but a useless passion, humans are just mere products of chance and live in a permanent orphanage ... Recently, the Methodist pastor Howard Mumma, a friend of the Nobel Prize of Literature, published his discussions with Albert Camus and the way was gradually converting to Christianity. In this long journey in search of truth, Albert Camus wrote: "If you do not believe in anything, if nothing makes sense and if you can find nowhere any value, then everything is permitted and nothing matters. "So it would appear that there is nothing good or bad, and Hitler had no reason or unreason. It does not matter to drag the crematorium to millions of innocent people who devote themselves to patient care. "The dead can honor them or they can be treated as garbage. Everything has the same value then ... "If nothing is true or false, nothing good or bad, if the only value is the ability, can be taken only one rule: to become the most able, ie the strongest. In this case, no longer divided the world into the righteous and unrighteous, but masters and slaves. Dominates is right. " As you read this shocking statement Camus, I came to mind so many laws or measures that governments and legislators have been imposed in Western societies and that go against human dignity, such as abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, experiments with human embryos, the matrices for rent, sterilizations mass (which is often practiced these tubal ligation against the will of the same women!) ... Because if you do not respect the person and their basic rights, then only is the law of the jungle. When he began his literary career, Albert Camus believed in the "philosophy of the absurd" but, over the years, recognized that this approach was impractical and even vital unimaginable. Why? Because he realized that some behaviors are better than others. "Most human problems arise when man attempts to replace God," says Camus. In 1946, a journalist of "Le litteraire" stated that he sought truth and reasoning that would allow it to conclude the validity of human actions. Camus later wrote an article titled: "If God does not exist." Some time later, as a result of these friendly conversations in Paris with Mumma Protestant pastor, said: "Fortunately I was wrong." Today we know that the relentless search for the meaning of human existence, finally found it. The title of this book by Howard Mumma is "The Existentialist jaded. Conversations with Albert Camus, "Editorial" Vozdepapel "collection" Veritas. " Without doubt, a testimony of great current interest. Camus's Last Words Mumma his friend before he died in a car accident, were: "My friend, I will continue striving to reach the faith". I believe that would have to resize the literary works of Albert Camus with this new perspective offered in his book the pastor.
When I came across the novel "The Stranger" and more like "The Plague" by French writer Camus impressed me the whole message transmitting existentialist philosophy: man is a being for death, the existence has no meaning and the living is but a useless passion, humans are just mere products of chance and live in a permanent orphanage ... Recently, the Methodist pastor Howard Mumma, a friend of the Nobel Prize of Literature, published his discussions with Albert Camus and the way was gradually converting to Christianity. In this long journey in search of truth, Albert Camus wrote: "If you do not believe in anything, if nothing makes sense and if you can find nowhere any value, then everything is permitted and nothing matters. "So it would appear that there is nothing good or bad, and Hitler had no reason or unreason. It does not matter to drag the crematorium to millions of innocent people who devote themselves to patient care. "The dead can honor them or they can be treated as garbage. Everything has the same value then ... "If nothing is true or false, nothing good or bad, if the only value is the ability, can be taken only one rule: to become the most able, ie the strongest. In this case, no longer divided the world into the righteous and unrighteous, but masters and slaves. Dominates is right. " As you read this shocking statement Camus, I came to mind so many laws or measures that governments and legislators have been imposed in Western societies and that go against human dignity, such as abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, experiments with human embryos, the matrices for rent, sterilizations mass (which is often practiced these tubal ligation against the will of the same women!) ... Because if you do not respect the person and their basic rights, then only is the law of the jungle. When he began his literary career, Albert Camus believed in the "philosophy of the absurd" but, over the years, recognized that this approach was impractical and even vital unimaginable. Why? Because he realized that some behaviors are better than others. "Most human problems arise when man attempts to replace God," says Camus. In 1946, a journalist of "Le litteraire" stated that he sought truth and reasoning that would allow it to conclude the validity of human actions. Camus later wrote an article titled: "If God does not exist." Some time later, as a result of these friendly conversations in Paris with Mumma Protestant pastor, said: "Fortunately I was wrong." Today we know that the relentless search for the meaning of human existence, finally found it. The title of this book by Howard Mumma is "The Existentialist jaded. Conversations with Albert Camus, "Editorial" Vozdepapel "collection" Veritas. " Without doubt, a testimony of great current interest. Camus's Last Words Mumma his friend before he died in a car accident, were: "My friend, I will continue striving to reach the faith". I believe that would have to resize the literary works of Albert Camus with this new perspective offered in his book the pastor. 
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