Existentialism

Existentialist
 * Existentialism ** is the primary cosmology and metaphysical view that existence precedes essence. (The term is applied to a wide variety of related views and names both a school of philosophy and an era in the history of ideas. For our purposes, we use the term Existential in a very narrow sense.)

Things exist simply because do and in the act of existing they make and modify their essence (nature). Because acts dictate natures instead of natures dictating acts, the universe is a dynamically chaotic place where anything can happen. In humanity, this capacity is most fully seen, as Existentialists believe that humans possess a radical free will. We are not free to choose good from evil, rather in choosing the choice becomes good. Clearly, these ideas only seem logical in the absence of God. The universe, according to this view, resulted from randomly generated events—reality is the product of blind chance. The absence of God means that human life is meaningless and absurd. We are transcendent thinkers in a non-transcending reality. It’s like waking up one day to discover you are a fish in a waterless world. The people of the postmodern times are largely existentialists. The truth is subjective in this view; believing something makes it true at least for the believer. Tolerance for any and every view marks the genuine domain of the postmodern thinker. Since no one view is truer than any other and death is the end, we seek happiness by distracting ourselves from our meaningless and absurd fate.