Post #1059047

2026-04-05 20:13 UTC

2. Sissyphus was a stupid allegory. Doing something useless, and especially for which you get no praise, is not as soul destroying as people would have you believe. If you like rolling a rock up a hill and having it roll back down, it's actually huge fucking fun if you just embrace the irony and the fun of rolling a rock, building up a sweat, and then letting that sucker go tumbling down. Corollary: you don't actually need praise. Just enjoy what you do, and try to do it well

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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 20:21

3. Sex is far less important than the media, buddies, influencers, and society would have you believe. It's also a fucking time trap. Especially when you are young, your body and society scream at you to want to be in rut all the damn time. It's exhausting. It also steals time and energy from windsurfing, riding a motorcycle, making curry, and brewing beer - which are all more fun, cost less, and don't involve all the fuss and bother. Make friends with more women, just bc they are interesting

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@roadriverrail@signs.codes 2026-04-05 21:09

@screwturn@mastodon.social This is indeed the point of "The Myth Of Sisyphus" by Camus. Well done. 😊

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@psilonaut@idtech.space 2026-04-06 04:45

@screwturn@mastodon.social my 12 year old self carrying a large block of curb up to the top of a parking garage to throw it off the side

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@rubinjoni@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 07:46

@screwturn@mastodon.social Ok, Camus.

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@JeremyPatMartin@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 18:26

@screwturn@mastodon.social Sissyphus was the mascot of the Absurdist movement. Just saying 🤣 they used his fable to describe the human condition living in an inhuman cosmos

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