I have in some time been expressing my thoughts about philosophy and life in an art form I really admire; comics. Through the years, that has developed to a homepage where I post my philosophical comics when I have time. So this is an essay as a comic. Which might be different than you are used to, but that is how I express myself after all, because I like to put as many as my thoughts in the pictures as I do in the words. And therefore, comics was the perfect medium for me to get these things out of my head.
Argh, there are so many of them and I really don’t know which one to choose. But well, the reason that I made them in the first place was to get them out and to get them discussed, and I thought this forum might be a really good place for it.
But I think this one might be the most interesting for us to discuss. It’s a story I made which combines a period of my life with philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. There are a lot of my own opinions and experiences mixed into the story. Most of the messages is lying in the pictures as symbols, composition, colors or whatnot. You can read it here: pti-comic.dk/index.php?page=last&strip_id=2
I hope that we can get a good discussing going. That is why I made them. Although I have a feeling that this is a sort of an “outsider” in this forum. I hope it’s not too cryptic. If it is, I can explain some of my thoughts behind it.
welcome to the board and nice comics…
have you read fear and trembling? the necessary demand for becoming a “knight of faith” is not there as you suggest in your comic…
have you read either/or?
kierkegaard’s philosophy leaves one with a choice, not a demand to blind obedience to god…
why do you feel that there is a “spiritual” necessity to meaning of existence? that’s great that you have one, but I would argue that kierkegaard would not of demanded one, in fact quite the opposite…
-Imp
Yeah, there are a lot of my own thoughts in it. No, I haven’t read fear and trembling yet. I have given Søren Kierkegaard a break and has started reading Immanuel Kant instead. But I will surely read it someday. I can’t really brag to be an Søren Kierkegaard expert (yet 
) but what I read of his philosophy still started a lot of thoughts in my head.
Can you explain me a little about how Søren kierkegaard tought about how to step into existence. I have mixed it a lot with spiritual philosophy, which I also have read a lot about. Well, I do not feel that the spiritual is a nessesity to existence - I see the word God as a word that almost covers everything as I think it is something that is in everything. I see the word as a synonym for life. To accept God is to accept the deeper dimensions of life - to get out of the theatre that almost kills himself in the beginning of the story (which is based on something I myself experienced).
And because it is based on my own experience and my own life, it is very influenced at how I see things. I myself do not see God in the christian way as Kierkegaard did. In the end I ask the questions “What is God? Who is God? Oh, God I don’t know” and the rest of that ending dialouge was ment to give hints to my own thoughts and conclusions about it-
fear and trembling is a fairly short book and well worth reading as you apparently aspire to be a knight of faith… start there…
soren taught that there were two sides to the coin… the aesthetic life or the moral life… neither had a guarantee of absolute truth…
and your ontology begins with god… (and that’s cool… a lot of philosophers start with god… but soren’s did not…)
-Imp