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Tell me about nihilism, absurdism, suicide and the nothing. Please

>> No.3693323

>>3693311

What's the point?

>> No.3693322
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3693322

It is all much ado about nothing

>> No.3693338

>>3693323
Exactly.

>> No.3693344

>>3693311
always bring a gun when you go to the beach. you never know.

>> No.3693345

It's a little bit silly really

>> No.3693352
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3693352

>>3693323
>>3693338
>>3693344
>>3693345
Got your wish OP.
Keep on Rollin

>> No.3693369

>>3693352
can you explain me this? I've read the Camus book but I want another point of view

>> No.3693414

bump

>> No.3693436

>>3693369
"Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? Camus answers: "No. It requires revolt."

"The struggle itself [...] is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

"From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all."

>> No.3693441

>>3693311
>Tell me about nihilism, absurdism, suicide and the nothing. Please
They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were.

>> No.3693484

"Nihilism is scepticism that has lost its patience." - Base de Chèvre

>> No.3693508

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>> No.3693515

The more you say about nothing the further you come from it.

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Had a Prof say there isn't much we can say about nihilism. There could not be advocates of nihilism because a true nihilist would just sit in a corner and piss himself ad infinitum. So if nihilism exists, it is like death, there is no return ticket. Leaving us nothing but speculation.

>> No.3693592

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3693643

Touching upon OP's other points of interest.. The Absurd and suicide.

Observing the Camus theme here; more Myth of Sisyphus.

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest – whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories – comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer (The one question).

>> No.3693656

>Tell me about nihilism, absurdism, suicide and the nothing.

It's all for the weak. The strong does not care for meaning different from the one he creates for himself.

>> No.3693659

>>3693656
Seconded

>> No.3693660

>>3693557
I love how there were genuinely people who lived like that. Then, they mostly shot themselves in cemetery.

>> No.3693803

>>3693557
Your prof is a fool. Nihilism doesn't lead to the preference of one action over the other. There is no reason to believe that a lack of value or meaning would lead to sitting in a corner, especially since most people are inclined regardless of philosophical framework to move around and do stuff.

>> No.3693811

>>3693656
It's for the strong. Only the weak require meaning as a coping mechanism.

>> No.3693825

>>3693811

Strength is overrated. Flexibility is the thing. What's that buddhist/taoist proverb about bamboo in strong winds vs. big trees. Something like the bamboo is able to bend in the wind, but a strong wind will uproot the tree, or some shit like dat.

>> No.3693840

>>3693825
Requires a fixed meaning for life is also for the inflexible. Wu wei don't need no meaning.

>> No.3694029

>>3693811
I think if Rock Biter had anything to teach us (and I think Artax sinking in the swamp of sorrows backs this up) it was that even brute strength can be rendered meaningless or face paralysis when confronted with the nothing.

>> No.3694156

>>3693811

But the definiton of nihilism implies that you need mening but can not find it. If you weren't talking about meaning in the first place, there could be no 'nihilism' - the term itself is only useful if meaning is searched for.

>> No.3694736

>>3694156
So all atheists are god seekers? Le does not ordinateur.