The only sure way to end anxiety once and for all is death. About Existentialism Existentialism allows for a lot of freedom in thinking that, to me, cannot be found in other philosophies. You can come up with your own conclusions, create your own answers. A piece of wood is a peice of wood, it's not a table or chair until somebody makes it a table or chair. To me it sounds pre-determined, like there is some spiritual me floating around out there somewhere, and I'm going to end up just like that other me, no other way, it will happen and that's it.
Life is random, stuff happens for no purpose.
You make choices, and those choices effect what happens later on, good or bad. There exists now a widely accepted definition of existentialism. It is that existentialism is the philosophic standpoint which gives priority to existence over essence. What is meant by this is that existentialism gives priority in signifigance to existence, in the sense of my existence as a conscious subject, rather than to any essence which may be assigned to me, any definition of me, any explination of me by science or philosophy or religion or politics. Existentialism affirms the ulitmate signifigance, the primacy of my existence as this flickering point of consciousness of myself and of objects of which I am aware, my existence as this conscious being against all efforts to define me, to reduce me to a Platonic essence, or to a Cartesian mental substance, or to a Hegelian carrier of the spirit of my culture, or to a scientific neurological mechanism, or to a social security number.