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6818271 No.6818271 [Reply] [Original]

>we must imagine Sisyphus happy

>> No.6818285

why must we?

>> No.6818292

rather push a bolder up a hill for eternity than not exist for eternity

>> No.6818301

>>6818292
Seriously?

I'd love a much longer life, but I'd have to exit it at some point.

>> No.6818314

>>6818292
i think i'd disagree

>> No.6818320

>>6818271
This shit pisses me off. Every single philosophical investigation has to always end with happiness.

Why can't anyone aside from Schopenhauer conclude that unhappiness is in fact normal?

>> No.6818326

>>6818292

definitely not

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>>6818320

>> No.6818333

>>6818320
>Why can't anyone aside from Schopenhauer
dude

>> No.6818339

>>6818314
>>6818301
I just have a love of fate, It's not for everyone

Relevant Dostoevsky quote from Crime and Punishment

I’ve read that someone condemned to death says or thinks,
an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some
high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he’d only room to
stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting
solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to
remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a
thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to
die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it
may be! … How true it is! Good God, how true!

>> No.6818348

Ehh, I don't know OP. I mean pushing a bolder up a hill may get boring. But if Sisyphus has a kicking smart phone that can download music and films then he is set.
It literally is the Bohemian lifestyle with the exception of pushing a bolder.

>> No.6818355

>>6818327
>>6818333
People are always discontent because they're under the illusion they're always supposed to be happy. People who suffer from clinical depression feel broken because they don't feel normal.

If you live life with the mindset that you're not always supposed to be happy, it makes grinding through the unpleasant parts easier. Instead of living life like the depressing parts are a temporary fall from grace, you can enjoy the happy parts as successes and reap more from them.

>> No.6818359

>>6818339
That's some stupid ass shit.

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>>6818355
I'm a negative-hedonist. That post just sounded very pessimistic to me.

I've heard some contradicting info regrading Schopenhauer's exact views on this. It sure doesn't help that he looks like Ebenezer Scrooge incarnate.

>> No.6818398

>>6818292
What could be happier than nonexistence?

>> No.6818890

>>6818398
Existence.

Nonexistence isn't happy, sad or anything.
Immortality sound dreadful though.