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Re: Coffee Is Hard

#151

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Sisyphus may disagree. :) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

The horrifying aspect of Sisyphus is that he is doomed to do it for all eternity. Whereas we have only a limited time to cherish or despise every carpet vacuumed until we die. I believe that we transcend the mundane every time we embrace it and truly live it instead of wishing desperately to be doing something else.

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

Re: Coffee Is Hard

#152
Love this!

> Avoiding premature death is a process of not occupying the same space as fast-moving metal or motivated microbes. Living is mostly a series of repetitive and unrelated tasks.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

#153
post #59

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If I was Sisyphus and got the boulder to the top, I would push it back down myself. I'm going to die eventually, so is it futile to exercise everyday, to learn, to try and be a better person? I don't think so, but all of those things are journeys that never end and require many mundane tasks.

> If I was Sisyphus and got the boulder to the top, I would push it back down myself. I'm really loving this quote, definitely using it at some point.

In all fairness I think I first heard it here.

https://youtu.be/7qNGWjDzxpQ

Re: Coffee Is Hard

#155

It was so well written that he made me want to play his purposefully frustrating game and I'm still disappointed he didn't provide a link to download it.

The first puzzle is the search for the game itself.

If you download it from the wrong mirror..

Re: Coffee Is Hard

#156
post #52

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"But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just ye…

He killed himself.

fought the good fight, and then his meds stopped working.

are you holding that against him? Does this bear on the wisdom of the advice?

Re: Coffee Is Hard

#157
This seems like a high quality article and has many upvotes, but I found it hard to read, and unfortunately ads made it even harder, so I couldn't get through it. I wonder if I'm in the minority because I don't use an ad blocker?

Re: Coffee Is Hard

#159
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As a geek and a fan of 80s-90s PC games (not just Sierra but also LucasArts adventure games and so on), this was a super entertaining read on its own; but I also enjoyed some of these insights about life in general from it: > Living is mostly a series of repetitive and unrelated tasks. It makes sense that the most tedious things to code are the tedious things that just have to be done. There are no life lessons or gy…

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."

There will always be wood that won't chop itself and water that won't carry itself, m8. Enlightenment can only put things in perspective.

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#160

This seems like a high quality article and has many upvotes, but I found it hard to read, and unfortunately ads made it even harder, so I couldn't get through it. I wonder if I'm in the minority because I don't use an ad blocker?

Oh my god, it's so bad with the adblocker disabled. Does the author know?
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