/lit/ - Literature

In mythology, Sisyphus was compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.

Now, that's the name I typed in google, but unfortunately it wasn't the myth I was actually searching for!
The (mythological) punishment I'm looking for is the one where someone is having the thing he desires just in front of him, but it's always outside his grasp no matter what.

Does anyone know which one this could be?

And I don't mean a dragon.....

>>4445128
Dicks! Dicks! A thousand dicks in my tender asshole, for i am the son of the wind cursed to move earth!

>>4182205
If that's what you want to do then yes. IMHO you're too young to know what you really want. I'd wait a year or two before deciding to go at all. But maybe you don't want to listen to me since I'm working poverty.

Up to you to decide what path you want to take in your life.

>>3949615
>prioritising physical fitness (as in, developing highly visible muscles) over other pastimes like music/literature/film or w/e just seems extraordinarily vain and masturbatory.
Gaining a muscular body is only part of it for me. Some of it is just an enjoyable hobby. I enjoy learning about peptide bonds between amino acids, what enzymes break them down, how serotonin levels or muscular tissue is changed. I enjoy learning about oligosaccharides, and insulin, tracking my diet, and seeing noticeable changes in my physical performance and cognitive function. I understand the relationship between me and the things I put into my body.

The lifting side is about dedication. I force my body through an hour and a half of intense stress four times a week. I throw myself into it, and everything else vanishes for a while when my muscles are burning and I'm pushing myself as hard as I can. I can feel my body getting stronger, better, and faster, and this translates into many other areas of my life. I wouldn't get anything out of it if I wasn't pushing myself fully.

As a result of this I'm more motivated, I have increased concentration, I don't get tired during the day or lethargic. I look better, I perform better in most things I do. Most importantly I feel better, and I love doing it.

Its not just a pastime. I read, I play piano and guitar, I have a social life and normal hobbies too, but my fitness underpins all of that as a lifestyle. It's my Sisyphus rock.

I just read through The Stranger by Camus and with that and some cursory readings on him online I realize his philosophy is basically what I've felt my whole life. Until now I never knew the word for it. Are there any good reads by other authors with the same kind of content?

Existentialism means recognizing that each of us is truly and absolutely alone from birth until death. Nihilism is a rejection of all traditional values in recognition of the previous fact. Absurdism is the belief that there is no objective meaning or value in human life at all, but also the determination to seek value nonetheless. Hedonism is the belief that your own happiness is all that you can value in the absence of any objective meaning. Moral relativism is admitting that you cannot prove anyone else's ideas to be objectively wrong since you don't believe in objectivity anyway. And ego is what makes it so satisfying to watch you all recoil from these ideas in a refusal to admit your existence is as insignificant as an ant's.

part 3 of response to >>3496804
>I think 'Taker' culture is here to stay and that the tide of rises and crashes of our technologically augmented planet rape is here to stay for as long as humanity is. Hell, we can barely wait to rape other planets. It's just how we roll. I don't really mind it though. It's nice and Heraclitean.

I would have said 'tragic and Sisyphean' there at the end, personally. And yes, I've read Camus; I know his take on that particular myth.

You're right about one thing: we Takers will continue to roll that rock up the hill again and again for as long as we think there's no better way to live. Just like the Babylonians and the Romans and the Mongols did. The tragedy is that we were not cursed to this fate by the gods -- we cursed ourselves, and we continue to curse ourselves. We can walk away whenever we want but we are bound by our own hubris and fear.

>>2506685

>Not Edgy, little bit of a atheist, but not whole reason.

Good and Evil >Nothing's that clear cut and subjective.

God>Dean Koontz and other authors beat you over the head with it to dodge any kind of reason that might have been useful.

Forced Romance> Nothing more annoying than suddenly "I've always loved you!" Using dialogue to express love is the dumbest idea on earth.

>>2357631
Jesus christ, is this the figure of the week in /lit/?

Seriously, he's come up like....at least 5 times in the last 3 days.

>>1694290
>just roll with it
>roll with it
>roll it