Gone Peating
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it’s a book that explains why life is worth living despite life being meaningless
ultimately camus (the author) explains how the meaninglessness of human life is similar to the greek tragic hero sisyphus, who was condemned by the gods to push a boulder up a mountain only to let it drop back down once he reached the top, over and over for eternity. camus explains that sisyphus revolts against his fate of punishment by being happy on his walk down the mountain back to the boulder once he drops it, enjoying nature and the time he has free from his burden. essentially the point of life is to just keep going, regardless of the meaninglessness and irrationality of the world. and finding time/small ways to be happy despite having to deal with long periods of suffering in life (the boulder)
although, he talks a lot more outside of sisyphus, all related to this similar topic
Life is not meaningless, the very existence of life refutes this nonsense.
Nihilism asserts that there is no truth, that nothing is absolutely true and therefore there is no meaning.
THIS IS PARADOXICAL AND SELF-DEFEATING
Nihilism and the claim that life is meaningless is the same as saying "It's true that nothing is true", a clearly self-defeating claim.