/lit/ - Literature

I abandoned this book - he refers to several different philosophers in every single paragraph and I just haven't read that many of them to keep up with it. Don't feel bad OP.

>>5326243
Yeah at least you caught the references, I haven't been able to tie together a
Single sentence.

>>5326239
He is trying to say that the most important philosophical question is whether or not to kill yourself then he says that even though there is no god and life has no transcendent meaning it is better to die unexpectedly in a car crash that to kill yourself.

I've heard that the gist of Camus' philosophy of the absurd is that true meaning is not apparent but that the search for meaning is worthwhile anyway. Of course the book is going to be more complicated than that.

>>5327028
Because there's no point of intentionally cutting the experience short. Even in life-situations typically associated with suffering, the thinker can still find sensory pleasure in his surroundings and delight in the drama of everyday life.

read the last page
>but the point is to live

>>5327147
If I knew you personally I would kill you for being this stupid. I am completely serious.

Myth is such a fucking retarded essay. Maybe if Sisyphus was getting raped in the ass by a spiky acid dildo as he rolled the boulder it would be a more fitting metaphor for life.

Life is less than meaningless, it's suffering.

>>5326239
Camus outright states that he assumes the Absurd as a jumping-off point. Are you already familiar with absurdism? Because if not, the essay won't make any sense.

>>5327266
>My life is less than meaningless, it's suffering.
ftfy

>>5327276
epic projection /b/ro

>>5327284
No. I'm asking him not to generalize his own feeling upon others, thus I'm the one stopping the projection.

Ask the thousands of people that starved to death since this thread was made if pushing the boulder was worth it.

Hell, ask the lab rats if pushing the boulder is worth it.

You people fucking disgust me.

>>5327301

Keep reading. Finish it, you'll probably get the jist of it. Then, read some other philosophers, and come back to it in a year or two. You'll have much better understanding of it.

>>5327256
lol, you're not.

>>5327301
this

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>>5327065
I thought his philosophy was basically nothing matters because you're going to die anyway.

>>5329094
Nope.

Try reading him.

>>5327256
I don't think you are. If you were the kind of person to be serious about these kind of things you'd be in prison or dead.

>>5326239
Probably my favorite philosophical essay. You need some literacy in several Greek myths but I don't think it's too tough going to read. >>5327065 has the general gist and he hasn't even read it.

What do you find confusing or unclear in it?

Is The Stranger easier to read than The Myth of Sisyphus?

>>5329148
Miles. Miles miles miles.
A whole world easier.

The Stranger is the easiest book I think I've ever read, no shitting.

>>5329160
Well that's good news for a half retard like myself.

>>5329148
yes, for sure.

>>5329148
YA is harder than the stranger

>>5329207
Not true. My girlfriend was begging for a "book recommendation" so I suggested the stranger. She's since read 3-4 books about witches, and not more than 20 pages of the stranger.

>>5327028
>better to die unexpectedly in a car crash that to kill yourself.
>unexpectedly
You mean ""unexpectedly""?

>>5329254
that doesn't mean it's difficult, she probably just doesn't find it interesting, and that's PERFECTLY FINE

>>5329365
>she probably just doesn't find it interesting, and that's PERFECTLY FINE

that's not the /lit/ spirit

Life is so absurd that the only thing that makes sense is suicide, that way actually living is an affirmation of life or some shit, basically

I dunno. I don't really do philosophy that much