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Albert Camus’ Meursault found meaning to his own life. So did Sisyphus. And so did Izzy in the Last Kiss. And there may be no one single meaning of life that fits all. Not one single purpose for what we are doing on this planet alive. But just like Sisyphus, who is sentenced to push a rock up a mountain over…
This is a diamond of a video by Tim Urban from Wait But Why, who travelled to Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, Japan and Greenland and asked people there: If you had a magical genie (or a magical man, or ‘fairy’), who said you could have three wishes (and have) anything you want in the whole world and it’s true, what would your…
We all have a death sentence, we’re all dying. But that isn’t a reason to despair or be bummed out, in fact it’s the opposite. We all have the same fate, that of death. Yet we can choose to rebel against it and make it whatever we want it to be, and be grateful for the so many things that…
If you don’t remember the 13.7 billion years that went by before you existed, then the trillions and trillions and trillions of years that come after will pass by in no time. – Kurzgesagt Watch this at 2:30: If the past no longer exists (even though you are a product of it) then the future is exactly the same. So…
What do you think is the point of life and the universe? There’s a range of Existential approaches to the question, that range from guys like Schoppenhauer who said that life has no meaning and is nothing but a punishment, to guys like Kierkegaard who said that we live and die, but God (or more, our hope and faith in God) will…
Surely, surely we must see that? Every man was privileged; there was only one class of men, the privileged class. – Meursault in Albert Camus’ The Outsider You are one of the few billion people that have been lucky enough to be thrown into life. So, how are you? Are you alive? Well, you’re lucky (OH MY MY).
This is Izzy from The Last Kiss, and in this scene from the movie, his mate tries to guilt him into coming with on a massive trip by judging the fact that all he does is go ice fishing every day, and that is an ‘incomplete’ or ‘pathetic’ life. But Izzy is happy just going ice fishing, and he’d be…
Despite all the confusing aspects of life and living, and having to make decisions in it that we basically know that in some way will be wrong, and the short time we actually get to be alive doing those confusing things, Albert Camus would say that we have to accept it, embrace it and live it. And one of the joys, perhaps…
Learning how to live life matters shit if you don’t actually live it. You can read all the books you want, all the great wisdom from all history’s clearest thinkers, but if you don’t actually live life, enjoy your existence (which is a privilege) and do philosophy (as in putting into practice the approach you have to dealing with difficult times, stressful…
Nobody has ever existed in their past. Or future. The only moment you experience currently is the one you are in at this moment. You did experience things in the past and you will (probably) in the future, but you don’t live in those. You live in this one. So when you look back on this moment, do you want it to…