Existentialism and Christianity pt 4- Copyright Robert Fullarton 2014

Existentialism and Christianity pt 4- Copyright Robert Fullarton 2014


Nature has in itself the fabric and the frailty for suffering. The animals positioned in the environment are part and parcel of a viscous, deadly and ultimately tragic cycle of predation and cessation from life. By the appearance of things...this existence is but the war of all animals and the delicate continuity of a fragile nature bound in vague causalities with remote paths from the origin of their source.

Great beauty dwells in timely buds and boughs with a season of glory, but just a season as all appears to reach a tragic end and certainly many see mankind as a sort of Shakespearian tragedy in itself.

By what we see and partially-feel at times- we can relate ourselves to the Tolstoy quote "Man must work for his existence" and we can apply it to every part of our life in practice. But to what end do we truly labour...are we working for a mere bread job? For paltry appearances with society? The ends of a man's life are the working goal which supersede his mundane, secondary goals...the mere appearance of things will flesh out and the reality will be revealed to each individual to make a collective whole. But what goal and order supercedes the minor points with a major plot?

 Suffering must concede to a goal that is greater than the suffering. The life of suffering must concede to a life that is one in glory. But what is the principle from which one transports oneself from suffering to glory? Where is the magnificent ladder that reached unto the impossible...from one nature -that is perishing in time- to one that is timeless, worth the toil and earth shattering labour? What is truth and who is truth...can he be a person..? a principle that walks and talks as a reality bound in flesh?