Day 4

I liked having a different question provided in discussion group than the ones listed as RRQ.  The quote one, that one was nice – to listen to and to answer.

I’m struggling with the alternatives. Ways to “live in response to the absurd.” Although I get the fully living one. While reading the Myth of Sisyphus excerpt again, I will focus on this and hope to find an answer/conclusion/new question.

I also don’t understand what Camus was trying to communicate to the reader about suicide though, about how it is contrary to the condemned man. When even with suicide, one is unable to reject or revolt against the absurd because while dying that is the last thought/feeling(?) that comes to mind and once dead it doesn’t matter. Completely irrelevant.  The world is gone. And the absurd isn’t. So even while trying to escape it, to give the absurd the middle finger, so to speak, one is no better or worse off, and neither is the absurd.

The following quote is relevant to the above paragraph: “…the absurd cannot be settled, It escapes suicide to the extent that it is simultaneously awareness and rejection of death. It is, at the extreme limit of the condemned man’s last thought.”

I also wonder if something, whatever it may be, were to come after human life for the individual. Something like heaven.  How would that change the meaningless feeling? I look forward to reading Kierkegaard.

For attending a catholic elementary school, I have a ridiculously small notion of what heaven is, or would be.

“If heaven was a pie, it would be cherry, so cool and sweet, heavy on the tongue. Just one bite would satisfy your hunger, and there would always be enough for everyone.” (Griggs).

But in all seriousness, what is the greatest thing that someone/something can offer in life or even the afterlife? And what is so great about it? To be worth everything.

Side notes:

- I like the tiered system. I’m still skeptical about Tier 3 being an honor. Oh! That was the great thing. I was trying to think of earlier in discussion circle. How Tier 2 would be an honor, besides having so much enthusiasm about the subject that one had to be put in Tier 2, people would still be telling others to stop talking. But Lauren stated it wonderfully by saying that those on Tier 2 have the power to shift or move the conversation.  

I also think that it has the potential to be an honor, but an internal one because it allows the mind to work to accommodate the parameters of discussion while still understanding the material in a satisfactory way.

- I may write too much in these posts…

- I was going to cite the quote from the textbook that I inserted, but I don't know what to cite it as. An anthology? But it's not an anthology it's just an essay in a textbook.

-  We get to start off class in discussion circle formation w00t w00t.

Works Cited

Griggs, Andy."If Heaven."This I got to see. RCA,2004.