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Fragment

I'm pretty sure this sentence is a fragment, but I am not sure how to revise it. "When a person is faced with the paradox of believing that their life is important on the one hand while at the same time perceiving that human existence itself is without meaning or purpose."

People in Africa do not have existential crisis

That's a crisis of non-existence... someone in a country where basic infections kill a quarter of the population is not experiencing existential crisis when they worry about dying.

of the average, you are probably right, This is a philosophical issue that might occur under the condition registered in the article. That said this does not mean people under harsh conditions do not ever experience existential thoughts. You can easily expand this idea to "People in Africa do not have music, DRM or advanced reaserch in biotechnology".
I hope you see my point now. --Procrastinating@talk2me 14:06, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Sources? NPOV?

"The essence of who one is and why one exists is believed to have not been defined before birth" WHAT? BY WHOM? I've cleaned that up, put soem more links and put the article for general clean up. --Procrastinating@talk2me 14:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"The realization of one's own moratality"

Is this a spelling error? Instr 19:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naturally. be bold. fix it.--Procrastinating@talk2me 20:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

citing references

Shouldn't that citation be at the top of the page? I think the "external links" area is fine without "citing its references or sources"...but that's just me. Filter1987 14:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry. WHAT? --Procrastinating@talk2me 14:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Solipsism

Can anyone include some specific information about a crisis where one worries about solipsism. Isn't this a symptom of certain mental illnesses such as dissociative identity disorder, schizophrenia or obsessive compulsive disorder?

Further Reading

Is Artistic Creation as a Solution to Existential Crisis by J Grambort made up? A google search for "Artistic Creation as a Solution to Existential Crisis" (with the quotes) yields only this wikipedia article. It was added 14:13, 1 May 2007. Abscr (talk) 15:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply] 

         It was not "made up," but it was indeed non-notable and has been removed.  I never published it.  J Grambort 71.198.66.207 (talk) 19:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"being happy is pursuing a superficial life"?

What? (under Handling existential crises, by 216.244.48.194) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.252.16.62 (talk) 19:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Religion

For some people, a typical resolution is believing in religion and its consoling, palliative supernatural explanations about the meaning and purpose of life.


I'm not religious myself, and this is clearly an unobjective viewpoint intended to admonish religious believers. Come on people. Weasel words... let's be objective about it, alright?

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