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>we must imagine sisyphus happy

>> No.7166025

>>7166011
>>7166001

>> No.7166029

>>7166011

I never understood this. Wouldn't he get bored pushing that damn rock sooner or later? He's doing it forever ffs.

>> No.7166043
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>2015
>not embracing the absurd

>> No.7166048

>>7166029
yeh but heroic

>> No.7166054

>>7166029
But if he does it he gets to leave!

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7166063

>"Or you could just fucking kill yourself, IDK LMAO."

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>>7166011
Choose how you want to push the rock up
Choose how you chase it back down

Imperfect metaphor however. There is nothing outside of you pushing the rock up the hill, so no envy of others or freedom from life's daily grind.

>> No.7166071

>>7166029
Camus explains it literally in the previous sentence:

>The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

>> No.7166085

>>7166071

Why though? He's just pushing a rock.

>> No.7166093

>>7166085
It's a metaphor you dip.

>> No.7166111

>we must imagine syphilis happy

>> No.7166147

>>7166070
>so no envy of others
I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly but I'm sure he talks about those who pity and envy one with an absurd mind. People pity you (usually religious folk), for obvious reasons. People envy you as as they wish they could live with the same integrity of character, not giving in to the leap of faith.

>> No.7166152

>>7166011
I'm finishing that book right now.
Very disappointed.

I liked some of his novel, but his essays are very poor.

>> No.7166161

>>7166147
Well here we're just opening up the metaphor. I was just being basic.

>> No.7166169

>>7166029
There's no reason to be happy or sad.

It's your choice, let that rock crush you if you want; just remember: it may be the only struggle we ever get to take, and that in itself can be precious to you.

>> No.7166175

>>7166011
Did you end with absurdism /lit/?

I don't feel, as an agnostic, that I'll be moving past it for a very long while.

>> No.7166189

>>7166161
Fairy muff.

>> No.7166192

Thomas Nagel put Camus' shillery to bed a while ago

>> No.7166194

>>7166063
>camuscando
huehue

>> No.7166210

>>7166070
>>7166070
The rock is a metaphor that is supposed to encompass all of the things that make life shitty to live.

>> No.7166226

>>7166210
Not just the effort of life itself?

>>7166189
Are you calling me that or what?

>> No.7166243

>>7166226
>Not just the effort of life itself?
Life is undoubtedly fantastic at certain times and sometimes doesn't feel like much effort at all.

fair enough

>> No.7166258

>>7166011

I always imagined that Sisyphus would force himself to enjoy his pushing of the rock as a final rebellion against the authority.

>> No.7166277

Why is the chain of thought: 'Life is absurd/pointless, I want meaning, it doesn't exist, I'd rather not be alive, suicide.

Philosophically inferior to the same thought process but it ending in: I'll continue to live and shake a fist at empty universe

>> No.7166279

>>7166243
>Life is undoubtedly fantastic at certain times and sometimes doesn't feel like much effort at all
The time we drag down the rock.

>> No.7166314

>>7166277
>shake a fist at empty universe
You're just replacing mental masturbation with physical masturbation. A bit like what Marx did to Hegel

>> No.7166320

>>7166314
what are you trying to say

>> No.7166421

DUDE I WROTE A BOOK THAT'S BASICALLY GREENTEXT LMAO

>> No.7166564

>>7166192
How so?

>> No.7166688

>>7166226
Butterfly poster, since it's your last day, could we see please a picture? It's not even a sexual thing, I'm just curious

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obligary

>> No.7166708

>>7166564
His essay on the absurd

>> No.7166713

>>7166688
>>>/s4s/3774792

>> No.7166720

>>7166226
>>7166226
The pushing is the effort of life itself. The rock exists whether it's pushed or not.

>> No.7166735

>>7166713
So long, Butterfly. Take care

>> No.7166746

>>7166152
Have you read The Rebel? His best essay.

>> No.7166954

>>7166708
thank you

>> No.7166970

>>7166713
>>7166713
wow, /s4s/ put up a thread before we did.