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As a final note, please understand that I'm not using "absurdity" as a negative term, it is merely a descriptive term for the existential state of existing without essential meaning.
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is not exactly Kierkegaard's use of the term. When he speaks of the absurdity of faith, he means that it doesn't make sense rationally, not that it doesn't have essential meaning. Credo quia absurdum est! (I believe because it's absurd.)
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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