Re:Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)
by schizoidboy on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:52AM
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I really appreciate (and am very fascinated by) your extreme honesty in this thread.
I've read Camus twice. The first time I read The Stranger, I took away meaninglessness, in the sense that existentialism seemed true.
The second time, I nearly threw up (no, I wasn't reading Nausea :-D), but in the sense that I don't think I've ever felt anything was so absolutely evil and wrong, and existentialism false.
I can't explain this in a philosophical way, and it may be a delusional and biased opinion given my life experiences between the two readings, but I think observing intuitions does hint at universal meaning. Intuitions might be intellectual observations of objective truths no different, in principle, from observations of atoms, or reason itself.
I've read Camus twice. The first time I read The Stranger, I took away meaninglessness, in the sense that existentialism seemed true.
The second time, I nearly threw up (no, I wasn't reading Nausea :-D), but in the sense that I don't think I've ever felt anything was so absolutely evil and wrong, and existentialism false.
I can't explain this in a philosophical way, and it may be a delusional and biased opinion given my life experiences between the two readings, but I think observing intuitions does hint at universal meaning. Intuitions might be intellectual observations of objective truths no different, in principle, from observations of atoms, or reason itself.