week 6 blog 1

Today’s discussions were very interesting.  Subjectivity in a very fun topic to contemplate. I really like how Kierkegaard approaches faith.  Faith is passion.  Passion towards gaining an understanding of objective truth.  But objective truth will always be just out of reach.  Passion is what drives our lives.  We go on through life trying to understand why we are here, even though we will never truly understand our existence.  I believe that life is pointless, but we should live our lives to the fullest because it doesn’t inherently mean anything.  My passion towards this is my subjective truth.  And I live abiding buy it.  There is no correct or incorrect subjectivity, everyone comes to their own subjectivity, and everyone is passionate about something.  And no one can say that someone else’s passion is wrong.  Subjectivity cannot be fully understood buy any outside party.  Passion and faith are individual and are constantly in a state of flux.  Passion exists momentarily, so it must be renewed often.  Because we can’t ever reach an objective understanding, we must take a leap of faith and decide what you are going to do about it.  We can waste our lives trying to come up with an objective understanding.  But doing this wastes the time you have in this world.  I think what Kierkegaard was getting was that, rather than try to prove that our subjective truth is right, we should just accept that we can never truly understand the truth through an objective lens.  I think he meant that we should just live by our passions, our subjective lens, believing in them and accepting them, whether or not other people believe us.  His lasts days were spent laughing at the people who entered the church. And I think it’s because he saw them as sheep who blindly followed whatever the pastor said, and accepted it as an objective truth.