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Is it worth the trouble? - Ralph Ammer

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In 1942 Albert Camus wrote a book called “The Myth of Sisyphus”. It is about the one truly important philosophical problem: Given the circumstances of our existence, shouldn’t we just kill ourselves? This is his answer: At first Camus describes those moments in our lives when our ideas about the world suddenly don’t work anymore, when every daily routine — going to work and back — and all our efforts seem pointless and misdirected. When one suddenly feels foreign and divorced from this world. In these frightening moments of clarity we feel the absurdity of life. This absurd sensitivity is the result of a conflict. On the one hand we make reasonable plans for our lives, and on the other hand we are confronted with an unpredictable world which does not comply with our ideas. So what is absurd? Being reasonable in an unreasonable world. This is the basic conflict we are confronted with. The tension between our reasonable ideas about the world, which collide with what we actually experienc

Is it worth the trouble? In 1942 Albert Camus wrote a book called “ The Myth of Sisyphus ”. It is about the one truly important philosophical problem: Given the circumstances of our existence, shouldn’t we just kill ourselves? This is his answer: At first Camus describes those moments in our lives when our ideas about the world suddenly don’t work anymore , when every daily routine — going to work and back — and all our efforts seem pointless and misdirected . When one suddenly feels foreign and divorced from this world. In these frightening moments of clarity we feel the absurdity of life . R

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