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Oct 8, 2018

Aren't you vegan? Vegan for animal rights? That would be a case in point. You wish to reduce suffering by not eating animals & causing their harm. Altho, veganism really has nothing to do with AN. But it shows you are a moralist, not a nihilist.

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antoine sugar

@joedan346

Oct 8, 2018

There are many varieties of existentialism. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre & so on. But I think they all ascribed to some kind of value system, no? Nietzsche was always talking about a re-valuation of values, in light of the awareness that God is dead.

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Abyss Watcher, Self-Terminator, Truth Seeker

@OhMyAngelaLove

Oct 8, 2018

I guess Antwan and I are of about the same age group. When I was younger, existentialism was really popular. I was much into Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Although very difficult, I read the 1,500-page JPN translation of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness." It was 43 years ago.

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Abyss Watcher, Self-Terminator, Truth Seeker

@OhMyAngelaLove

Oct 8, 2018

(1) When I opened Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus" (in its JPN translation) when I was 19, it was ten at night. I couldn't stop turning the pages. I had to devote a lot of time to each page not because it was hard but it was very much of substance to me.

Abyss Watcher, Self-Terminator, Truth Seeker

@OhMyAngelaLove

Oct 8, 2018

(2) When I finally reached the last page, it was already five in the morning. I stayed up all night. I've loved Camus all my life. In the abovementioned book, he tackles the issue of suicide on the very first page. youtube.com/watch?v=UD28gi

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antoine sugar

@joedan346

Camus pissed me off with that whole "you must imagine Sisyphus happy" bullshit. I was like "What!" That's the same thing the optimists tell you: Just think happy thoughts. Be positive. And so on. Or did I misinterpret Camus? OED? What say you?

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Abyss Watcher, Self-Terminator, Truth Seeker

@OhMyAngelaLove

Oct 8, 2018

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@joedan346

I don't quite remember that phrase "Sisyphus happy." It doesn't piss me off at all anyway. Besides, perhaps Camus was being masochistic. I tend to be that way, so I don't mind it at all.

antoine sugar

@joedan346

Oct 8, 2018

It's at the very end of the text. Camus writes that one must embrace the struggle, that all is well, that it's neither sterile nor futile, and "one must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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