That’s like saying, I didn’t get the Rorschach test, because I didn’t give your answer.
Besides, not all of us are so lucky as to live the coddled life that enables some to spend endless hours sitting and catching up on all the great thoughts of philosophers, men with their endless self-glorifying, “intellectualized” rhetorical diarrhea.
Most of us have to spend our lives working full-time plus and, dare I say, the deeper thinkers among us wrestle with the age old “deep questions” within the context of living our lives, confronting the realities of being a human, having to defend for one self and lots of introspective thinking and with only limited doses from the Great Thinkers.
What does, pray tell, Kierkegaard have to offer me? For crying out loud he couldn’t even acknowledge his own mother - so another damaged child made good by ignoring his own real demons and wallowing within rhetoric about other things.
I’m sure he’s got some golden nuggets, but he never gets close to recognizing humans as evolved creature. Nor the lesson that our world is here because of Evolution happening, one day at a time, through Deep Time. None stop yammering about the origins of our mind, yet zero recognition that Earth biosphere quite literally created us. It never even enters his mind, instead it a lot of trivial and showing off about the great beyond, while ignoring what’s in front of our noses.
So what good is Kierkegaard?
It’s probably a philosophical question, so no answer can be hoped for.
Sure Martin Peter-Clarke you can wallow in your own sense of superiority,
but when it come to actually relating or helping another human, you seem useless. Your attitude and trollish clipped offerings are for affect, Your responses are algorithm driven, what do you know of humanity?
I, we, can’t help forming quasi-impressions ( 
) of people we deal with in this discussion forum. I can easily imagine, Mriana, Lausten, write4U, Mrmhead and others that come through here, being handed a friend’s little baby, and knowing what to do in the moment, perhaps intimidated for lack of experience, but still they’d be a wondrous recognition of this little being, with a ripple of love coursing through their living spirit.
But you M? There I sense one of those emotional recoil happen, “take it away” - then a joke about bringing it back in few years when it can walk and talk.
You want to ridicule me for connecting the dots of billions of years worth of Earth’s Evolution (with a rich story before and after), with human thinking and human denial of real facts?
Buddy. perhaps you are the one that doesn’t get it.
Our human consciousness very literally reaches back to the Cambrian over half a billion years ago. That has a bearing on who we are. Philosophy never seems to get past the façade of the MAN and our particular brain. Totally f’n dismissive of the hundred of billions of years of development and advancement happening and creating who we are.
CONSCIOUSNESS is a WAVE rushing forward in time.
Only the living possess consciousness and to be so blind, as to not see its reflection in the creatures and biosphere around us, is beyond me.
Consciousness is the inside reflection of a creature interacting with itself and its environment.
Martin first you need to connect those dots before you can take me to task for placing ATTP’s bit about society wide willingness to ignore real facts onto the “Humanist” board.
Stop yapping and start producing.