# 2 Beware of Philosophies: Pessimistic Existentialism

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Podcast: [Sea of Fire Ministries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sea-of-fire-ministries-6744950)
Published: 2025-12-01T12:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

James Meyers, III considers the philosophy of Existentialism. While perhaps a familiar term, few are able to define it. However, James finds it to be perhaps the most influential secular philosophy and it also enjoyed a fairly swift popularity as compared to other philosophies. James discusses two very influential men who, in their lives, propagated existentialism, albeit in diametrically opposing ways: the nihilistic existentialist, Friedrich Nietzsche and his counterpart, the Christian existentialist, Søren Kierkegaard. Sea of Fire Ministries on YouTube

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