It says to me in the voice of chaos and says, "it's time to talk about todays sponsor, raid shadow legends".

I immediately collapse from this groudbreaking turn of events.

When shi goes down how do you personally enjoy it instead of staying nihilistic?

How do you guys maximize productivity in this meaningless life?

I've heard some people say that the movie is about Absurdism, but Arthur Fleck clearly says, "I don't believe in anything." Which I know there's more to Nihilism than that but, just curious. Although I guess it is about Absurdism because, he ultimately ended up finding his own form of meaning in the movie... albeit, it was killing people but, everyone's meaning is different I guess.

Pretty much just what the title suggests. I feel like existential nihilism directly contradicts absurdism, but optimistic nihilism seems to be the same as Abursdism.

If there is any difference, I would love to hear about it. I would also love good recommendations for ababsurdist literature. I am a big fan of stoicism if that helps

"I can never know a true meaning to life (if there even is one), so then it doesn't matter anyway and I should instead live according to my values."

If so, is there anything else you would add?

If not, how might you sum it up yourself?

I have been a nihilist for quite sometime and I'm done with it,to constantly feel victimized and always be in a state of melancholy it's too overwhelming at times,so i really wanna try and swift to being an absurd- pls suggest some Outlooks on how to view absurdism and go about it!🙏

After many toiling years of nihilistic existentialism, I am proud to announce I will be taking on absurdism next. What are some good beginning books/essays to learn more about it? TIA xx

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• The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus

• The Rebel - Albert Camus

• Albert Camus and the Human Crisis: A Discovery and Exploration - Robert E. Meagher

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This piece about the amount of money people are able to play with to buy fossilised dinosaurs... Here's an extract, keen for some thoughts...

"Shortly after fetching 44.6 million dollars, a recording of the auction of Apex will be uploaded to Sotheby’s YouTube account.

I imagine what it might be like to hold a 44.6 million dollar dead stegosaurus hostage in your living room while child sponsorship ads roll silently by on a muted television in the corner.

I imagine this recording one day unfurling itself out from the neck of an hourglass as an unkind and unflattering historical artefact from a day and age that saw more investment in data points and time stamps—fossils, etc—than the hungry mouths of billions living. I imagine some artificially intelligent race of curious humanoids in ten thousand years or more busily excavating like digital archeologists through layers of data, centuries at a time, for insights into the character of their creator."

It's a really short few hundred word read, and you can find it here:
https://joshuadabelstein.substack.com/p/on-the-sale-of-a-dead-stegosaurus

I believe that meaning is the product of human fiction and that it does not exist as an absolute category imprinted into existence. However, I believe fiction is equally, if not even more real than anything else because everything we have built started as someone's imagination(idea).

I also think that meaning is what absurdism is founded on, except that instead of its presence, absurdism is based on the absence of meaning. What am I?

I first found absurdism in 2019. I told a girl I knew my philosophy on life, and she told me to look into absurdism. I did some research and found that absurdism exactly matched my perspective on life. In fact, the reason I downloaded Reddit was because of this sub.

I had some philosophical friends, and we engaged in many conversations on this topic. I’m these conversations, I would always explain absurdism, existentialism, and nihilism, as these are the 3 philosophies on the general ‘nothing truly matters and life is meaningless’ spectrum.

While some friends thought the whole thing was ridiculous, I had a few friends who understood what I was saying, and considered themselves to be somewhat of an existentialist. I understood existentialism conceptually in way, but I couldn’t fully grasp it. My understanding of existentialism was that nothing truly matters and life is meaningless, but people assign value to things in their life, and that value they assign creates value for them, despite still acknowledging that in the grand scheme of things, nothing really matters.

What I couldn’t understand is how does one assign value to things while knowing nothing matters? Existentialism sounded nice, but made up. How could I place value on things in life, while knowing that none of it mattered? Existentialism felt fake to me. I didn’t think other existentialist were ‘faking it’ or anything, I just couldn’t grasp the combination of knowing nothing matters while assigning value to things in my own life.

Fast forward a few years. I met a girl who I started a relationship with, who had very different views than me. Absurdism was not very pleasant of a thought to her, but I did my best to explain it and eventually she understood my view. Overtime, we grew closer and fell in love. I was still absurdist, but started flirting with existentialism. The fact that I was so deeply in love contradicted my absurdist beliefs. I deploy cared for my partner, and would do anything for her. I started to care about my own life in a way I hadn’t before.

For example, I like to ski, and will ski in very dangerous situations. Before this relationship, I didn’t really feel any fear with skiing. I was confident in my abilities, but if I got in over my head and ended up not making it home, it didn’t really matter. I didn’t want to die, but the thought of dying was neutral. Freezing to death would be shitty, but the thought of dying itself was fine.

After falling in love, things were different. I started to feel fearful of leaving my partner behind if I died. I still didn’t care about my death as it related to me, but I cared about my death as it related to her. I needed to come home to her.

I was stuck between absurdism and existentialism in some ways, but I still considered myself to be an absurdist. Those feelings of caring about my own life because of my love for my partner existed, but were not dominate thoughts. For the most part I felt 100% absurdist, but there were moments in which I did not. Typically those moments would only come in dangerous situations, so for the most part, absurdism is still the philosophy that fit my day to day perspective.

A couple months ago, we broke up. I was processing a lot, and wasn’t really thinking about things from a philosophical perspective. I was just existing and dealing with the emotions of the break up.

Recently I’ve been reflecting on my life views, and am confident that I am no longer absurdist. Years ago, any pain I felt was short lived, due to my absurdist views. If nothing matters and that’s what makes life so fun, any difficulties in life were easily dismissed, as I understood that whatever issue I was dealing with truly meant nothing.

The pain I have felt from this break up is too real, and I cannot dismiss it. I still care for her deeply. I worry about her, and hope she is doing okay. She opened me up emotionally in ways I hadn’t experienced, and I have begun to care about things I never have. I recently lost my last grandparent, and for the first time since I was a kid, I felt sadness about death. I still believe that in the grand scheme of things, nothing really matters and this life is all a joke, but that isn’t what guides me through my day. The value that has been attached to things in my life feels more real than it ever has. I feel things more than I ever have, and while this whole change of perspective was never intended, I’m thankful it happened. I feel human.

Reflecting back on my inability to fully grasp existentialism before this relationship, I always thought people assigned value to things, and that’s what confused me. From my current perspective, I never consciously assigned value to things in my life. It just happened organically without me realizing it.

If you’ve read this far, thanks for sticking around. I’m sure I explained some things poorly, so apologies in advance for whatever I messed up. I hope everyone has a good Monday!

How to change the meaningless world(feeling nothing) to somewhat happy and productive life. Anyone experinecing the same. Please share your thoughts

Absurdism as a theatrical moment though kicked in the late 20th century had its genesis as early as the early 18th century. And there's one Irish Author that tried to potray the Absurdist spirit but was deeply misunderstood not only by his contemporaries but also by the literary critics of the ensuing age.

He was firstly a religious sceptic and was unapologetic in reproaching ill practises of the ecclesiastical class, He condemned all the major religious philosophies in his book Tale of Tub.

Gulliver's Travels is inarguably his most misunderstood work, It's irrelevant details about the eponymous character's travels to seemingly strange lands, if anything reveal the Absurdity of the Gulliver's world. Those who have read the work would know It keeps on getting distrubing as Gulliver nears the end of his travels.

He himself said about the work that he wrote it "To vex the world rather than to divert it" But his contemporaries were probably not ready to embrace the absurdism hence the work which could have been the epitome of Absurdism in the English canon got devolved to merely being a Children's Book.

His absurdist spirit got him labelled as 'misanthrope' thus most of his works were dismissed from being thought about seriously.

I'm curious which existential philosophy it most embodies, but it seems to lean towards absurdism, but I'm curious to hear what other people think.

The link for article is below:

https://www.playforthoughts.com/blog/albert-camus

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