Status Updates From Being and Nothingness

El ser humano "es lo que no es y no es lo que es, es la nihilización del En-sí contingente, en tanto que el sí-mismo de esta nihilización es su huida hacia adelante en dirección del En-sí causa de sí. La realidad humana es puro esfuerzo por hacerse Dios [...], sin que haya nada que se esfuerce así."

"I emerge alone and in anguish confronting the unique and original project which constitutes my being; all the barriers, all the guard rails collapse, nihilated by the consciousness of my freedom."

Now we're getting somewhere.

"Croire, c'est savoir qu'on croit et savoir qu'on croit, c'est ne plus croire."

"In this sense it is necessary that we make ourselves what we are. But what are we then if we are this constant obligation to make ourselves what we are, if our mode of being is having the obligation to be what we are?"

"Being is what it is." (p. 21)

Thanks Sartre.

Am I understanding this better after a brief introduction to philosophy in general? Yes.

Did it still take me significantly over an hour to read twelve pages? Hard yes.

“The past is no longer, so how can it be?”