http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
Intriguing. I need to read this essay. Finding positive in the ultimate negative mythology.
Jeff
The Myth of Sisyphus.....
by AK - Jeff 8 Replies latest jw friends
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Titus
Sisyphus was a stupid labourer! He was just working, working and working whole life. He should have stopped to work and should have started to think, just for a minute. If he did it, he would realize that he need to sleek the top of the hill, and we wouldn't have to weigh about that stupid man today!
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AK - Jeff
Isn't Sisyphus a metaphor for all of us? We either find meaning in the drudgery/pain/time wasted, or we just live and die without any meaning at all. Camus is an interesting existentialist to my way of thinking. Here is an interesting lecture [about 30 minutes if you listen to all three parts] on his work, particularly the Myth of Sisyphus:
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OnTheWayOut
I haven't read the wiki entry nor watched the youtube, but I am familiar with the story.
Isn't Sisyphus a metaphor for all of us? We either find meaning in the drudgery/pain/time wasted, or we just live and die without any meaning at all.
You got it.
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minimus
I know of someone who had a real bad case of Sisyphus. Thank God for antibiotics!
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Titus
Yes, that's it. You only have to change the word "Sisyphus" with "We" or "People" in my comment.
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iknowall558
Am trying to lay low just now, but had to comment on this as I love Albert Camus.
This essay , I took to my heart a good few years ago when I had a heavy burden to bear in my own life. I found it fascinating that he continually pushed this rock, and with great effort, but never managed to get it over the hill. We all have times like that, and this task became his world. The point that pressed home to me was that, he found relief when he had to walk down the hill to start pushing the rock all over again
There is a quote of his also that I take to heart and has got me through a lot of bad times. "In the midst of winter, I found there lay within me, an invincible summer.." I am seriously consdiering having 'Invincible Summer' as a tattoo.
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AK - Jeff
My interest in this philosopher is piqued early now as I allow his words to unravel, as here, but page 5:
"What then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between the man and his life. the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. All healthy men having thought of their suicide. it cane be seen. without further explanation, that there is a direct connection between this feeling and the longing for death."
I am hooked.
Jeff
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John Doe
I posted a thread before on Sisyphus.
