great thread!

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rain't:

>be me
>reading inside a Tim Hortons at odd hours of the night
>finish The Myth of Sisyphus
>sit in stunned silence, my head in my hands
>woman asks me if I'm arlight
>"What's wrong? Cliffhanger?"
>"Imagine Sisyphus happy."
>"What?"
>"Exactly."
>Down the rest of my coffee, now completely indifferent to pain because everything is meaningless and absurd
>Pick up Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and begin reading

Oprindeligt skrevet af Marcus Aurelius:

Surely it is an excellent plan, when you are seated before delicacies and choice foods, to impress upon your imagination that this is the dead body of a fish, that the dead body of a bird or a pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is grape juice and that robe of purple a lamb's fleece dipped in a shell-fish's blood; and in matters of sex intercourse, that it is attrition of an entrail and a convulsive expulsion of mere mucus. Surely these are excellent imaginations, going to the heart of actual facts and penetrating them so as to see the kind of things they really are. You should adopt this practice all through your life, and where things make an impression which is very plausible, uncover their nakedness, see into their cheapness, strip off the profession on which they vaunt themselves. For pride is an arch-seducer of reason, and just when you fancy you are most certainly busy in good works, then you are most certainly the victim of imposture.

quote this for later reading.

Why do old 4chan memes always end up here?

*pushes this thread up a hill forever*

I only clicked this topic cause it made me think about the R-5b Sisyphus

sisyphus is just a less cool chunky kong. chunky kong can pick up a boulder with relative ease, makes crushing rocks seem such a breeze!

That's ok, dude, not everyone is build to carry Absurdism on his shoulders or even thrive in it, and that's fine.

Ok.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rain't:

>be me

Stopped reading there

heh... nothin' personnel, kid.

Oprindeligt skrevet af AlmightyDunkle:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Wild Child:

Why do old 4chan memes always end up here?

Showcasing their intellectual prowess to the common folk with made up scenarios that totally didn't happen.

You really can't imagine someone asking someone else something? I knew OT was antisocial, but gott damn

Oprindeligt skrevet af Voroff:

That's ok, dude, not everyone is build to carry Absurdism on his shoulders or even thrive in it, and that's fine.

I care less about the philosophy of Absurdism and more about my expectations being let down. I expected a lot more from the book which won the Nobel prize in literature. I don't know what I expected. Maybe advice? A recipe? Not just "Choose to be happy, even in the face of insurmountable suffering"

The book has a lot of interesting thoughts, some comedic jabs at other philosophers, but overall I feel like it said less than it ought to have

Oprindeligt skrevet af AlmightyDunkle:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rain't:

You really can't imagine someone asking someone else something? I knew OT was antisocial, but gott damn

You just asked and wrote a thread in one of the most pompous ways possible is all.

I think I just got your prison-blood pumping because you ~feel~ inferior by comparison rather than anything I said about myself or anyone else

You ought to introspect

I always thought that Sisyphus was perhaps the wrong analogy. Sisyphus will never come to the realization that he struggles against an uncaring universe and an impossible task. He truly believes he is acting in his own self interest, that he will eventually succeed.

It's been years since I read it, but does Camus include the trick the gods played? That all Sisyphus must do is get the boulder up to the top, climb on top of it, and then reach the exit of the underworld.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Grimble Grumble:

I always thought that Sisyphus was perhaps the wrong analogy. Sisyphus will never come to the realization that he struggles against an uncaring universe and an impossible task. He truly believes he is acting in his own self interest, that he will eventually succeed.

It's been years since I read it, but does Camus include the trick the gods played? That all Sisyphus must do is get the boulder up to the top, climb on top of it, and then reach the exit of the underworld.

No, I don't remember anything like that -- and I didn't even know about that

I also find it lacking in regards to time. I can imagine Sisyphus happy for an instance or two -- but for eternity? I find that doubtful. I'm sure Sisyphus ~could~ be happy, but I doubt its longevity, and that's where I find myself