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si hoc non legere potes tu asinus es http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/ Chapter 1: An Absurd Reasoning Camus undertakes to answer what he considers to be the central question of philosophy: Does the realization of the meaninglessness and absurdity of life require suicide? He begins by describing the absurd condition: much of our life is built on the hope for tomorrow yet tomorrow brings us closer to death and is the ultimate enemy; people live as if they didn't know about the certainty of death; once stripped of its common romantizations, the world is a foreign, strange and inhuman place; true knowledge is impossible and rationality and science cannot explain the world: their stories ultimately end in meaningless abstractions, in metaphors. "From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all." It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when "my appetite for the absolute and for unity" meets "the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle." He then characterizes a number of philosophies that describe and attempt to deal with this feeling of the absurd, by Heidegger, Jaspers, Shestov, Kierkegaard and Husserl. All of these, he claims, commit "philosophical suicide" by reaching conclusions that contradict the original absurd position, either by abandoning reason and turning to God, as in the case of Kierkegaard and Shestov, or by elevating reason and ultimately arriving at ubiquitous Platonian forms and an abstract god, as in the case of Husserl. For Camus, who set out to take the absurd seriously and follow it to its final conclusions, these "leaps" cannot convince. Taking the absurd seriously means acknowledging the contradiction between the desire of human reason and the unreasonable world. Suicide, then, also must be rejected: without man, the absurd cannot exist. The contradiction must be lived; reason and its limits must be acknowledged, without hope. However, the absurd can never be accepted: it requires constant confrontation, constant revolt. While the question of human freedom in the metaphysical sense loses interest to the absurd man, he gains freedom in a very concrete sense: no longer bound by hope for a better future or eternity, without a need to pursue life's purpose or to create meaning, "he enjoys a freedom with regard to common rules". To embrace the absurd implies embracing all that the unreasonable world has to offer. Without a meaning in life, there is no scale of values. "What counts is not the best living but the most living." Thus, Camus arrives at three consequences from the full acceptance of the absurd: revolt, freedom, and passion. Chapter 2: The Absurd Man How should the absurd man live? Clearly, no ethical rules apply, as they are all based on higher powers or on justification. "Integrity has no need of rules." 'Everything is permitted' "is not an outburst of relief or of joy, but rather a bitter acknowledgment of a fact." Camus then goes on to present examples of the absurd life. He begins with Don Juan, the serial seducer who lives the passionate life to the fullest. "There is no noble love but that which recognizes itself to be both short-lived and exceptional." The next example is the actor, who depicts ephemeral lives for ephemeral fame. "He demonstrates to what degree appearing creates being." "In those three hours he travels the whole course of the dead-end path that the man in the audience takes a lifetime to cover." Camus' third example of the absurd man is the conqueror, the warrior who forgoes all promises of eternity to affect and engage fully in human history. He chooses action over contemplation, aware of the fact that nothing can last and no victory is final. Chapter 3: Absurd Creation Here Camus explores the absurd creator or artist. Since explanation is impossible, absurd art is restricted to a description of the myriad experiences in the world. "If the world were clear, art would not exist." Absurd creation, of course, also has to refrain from judging and from alluding to even the slightest shadow of hope. He then analyzes the work of Dostoevsky in this light, especially The Diary of a Writer, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov. All these works start from the absurd position, and the first two explore the theme of philosophical suicide. But both The Diary and his last novel, The Brothers Karamazov, ultimately find a path to hope and faith and thus fail as truly absurd creations. Chapter 4: The Myth of Sisyphus In the last chapter, Camus outlines the legend of Sisyphus who defied the gods and put Death in chains so that no human needed to die. When Death was eventually liberated and it came time for Sisyphus himself to die, he concocted a deceit which let him escape from the underworld. Finally captured, the gods decided on his punishment: for all eternity, he would have to push a rock up a mountain; on the top, the rock rolls down again and Sisyphus has to start over. Camus sees Sisyphus, who lives life to the fullest, hates death and is condemned to a meaningless task, as the absurd hero. Camus presents Sisyphus's ceaseless and pointless toil as a metaphor for modern lives spent working at futile jobs in factories and offices. "The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious." Camus is interested in Sisyphus' thoughts when marching down the mountain, to start anew. This is the tragic moment, when the hero becomes conscious of his wretched condition. He does not have hope, but "[t]here is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Acknowledging the truth will conquer it; Sisyphus, just like the absurd man, keeps pushing. Camus argues that Sisyphus is truly happy precisely because the futility of his task is beyond doubt: the certainty of Sisyphus' fate frees him to recognize the absurdity of his plight and to carry out his actions with contented acceptance, which Camus argues to be a form of true happiness. With a nod to the similarly cursed Greek hero Oedipus, Camus concludes that "all is well." Appendix This essay concludes with an appendix titled "Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka". While Camus acknowledges that Kafka's work represents an exquisite description of the absurd condition, he maintains that Kafka fails as an absurd writer because his work retains a glimmer of hope. "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill one's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:55:23 -0000 Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:18:23 -0000 si hoc non legere potes tu asinus es http://images.sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/logo http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com 100 100 WHOLE LOTTA NOSTALGIA Gw telat sampai Aula Katedral dan ga sempat ikut misa 1000 Hari Perry Pattiselano. Kata Rm. Maswan Susinto, SJ, Oele Pattiselano main gitar pas misa dan dia ga main di show setelah misa. Sial! Rm. Maswan ini teman seangkatan gw di kolese seminari. Sekarang dia jadi pastor di Gereja Katedral bersama Rm. Bratakartana, SJ a.k.a. Rm. Broto. Gw juga udah kenal lama dengan Rm. Broto. Dulu dia Minister (kepala rumah tangga) di seminari. Tapi sebenarnya gw udah bertemu sebelum itu. Dia salah satu penguji yang wawancara gw waktu ujian masuk seminari. Satu pertanyaan dari dia yang gw inget, "Kamu ngapain mau masuk seminari? Mau jadi pastor?" Gw jawab, "Nggak. Saya mau jadi orang baik." Eh, lolos juga gw....Sekian nostalgia. Pierre, anak Perry Pattiselano, main komposisi klasik Johann Sebastian Bach - Air on G string. My fav! Gw jadi inget pas mainin Air sambil meluk Raisa (Hebrew/Ibrani, rose in English.), cello gw, bertahun-tahun lalu di seminari. Tapi on D string....Sekian nostalgia. ... http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/23/WHOLE_LOTTA_NOSTALGIA Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:18:23 -0000 JAZZ GOES TO CHURCH 1000 hari telah berlalu, sejak tragedi pemboman di Amman, Jordan, yang telah merenggut kehidupan seorang musisi: suami, ayah, dan opa kami, alm. Perry Pattiselanno. Maka dengan ini, kami akan mengadakan acara: "Jazz Goes to Church" pada hari Senin 4 Agustus 2008 pukul 18.30, didukung oleh sejumlah musisi dan penyanyi jazz para sahabat alm. 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Karang Anyar Raya 45, RT 04/11, Karang Anyar, Kecamatan Sawah Besar Jakarta Pusat. ____________________________ Perry Pattiselanno (Surabaya, 25 Juli 1960–Amman, Yordania, 9 November 2005) adalah seorang musisi jaz... http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/calendar/item/10002/JAZZ_GOES_TO_CHURCH_ Sat, 2 Aug 2008 04:48:43 -0000 Sizing Up Keira Knightley so be http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/links/item/5/Sizing_Up_Keira_Knightley Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:28:14 -0000 Keira Says No to Bigger Bust The 23-year-old says she's proud of her natural body and doesn't want film promos enhanced... http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/links/item/4/Keira_Says_No_to_Bigger_Bust Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:11:00 -0000 smiley or frowney <img src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/smile.png"> or <img src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/sad.png"> ? uh! http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/28/smiley_or_frowney Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:27:00 -0000 Time Stand Still Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each sensation a little bit stronger Make each impression a little bit stronger Freeze this motion a little bit longer Am I a hopeless timefreezer? http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/27/Time_Stand_Still Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:40:00 -0000 in memoriam helen 1977-2006 miss you, dear friend i should visit you sooner damn me! requiscas in pace in memoriam helen hotnida rosalin panjaitan 1 februari 1977 - 14 juli 2006 http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/26/in_memoriam_helen_1977-2006 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:26:00 -0000 kenapa disebut aktor intelektual... bukan sutradara?<img src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/confused.png"> http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/25/kenapa_disebut_aktor_intelektual... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:53:00 -0000 Roy Suryo Emang Pakar yang Hebat! <img class="alignleft" src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/boku_baka/kepret.jpg" border="0">so called pakar telematika roy suryo ngomong foto munarman mencekik dan bripka iskandar mengacungkan pistol pada insiden monas 1 juni dijepret orang yang sama pada jumpa pers di mapolda metro jaya. foto munarman diberikan ke akkbb, foto bripka iskandar diberikan ke fpi. lihat detik.com 24/06/2008 22.45 WIB. analisanya, foto dibuat dengan kamera d200 dan pake lensa canon 18-200mm. masalahnya belum ada converter buat kamera nikon digital biar bisa pake lensa canon. kalo sebaliknya ada. apakah si pemotret ini orang yang sangat handy, bikin sendiri converter itu, sehingga menjadi satu2nya orang di dunia yang punya? kalo dia mau masarin bisa cepet tuh dapet duit karena ga sedikit nikonian yang mau mencicipi lensa l series canon...<img src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/wink.png"> kalo asumsinya dia emang punya converter itu, ada masalah lain. canon ga punya lensa 18-200mm! canon pelit ngeluarin hyperzoom, ga kaya nikon. apakah ini lensa terbaru canon yang canon sendiri ga tau?!?! lagi-lagi masalah. file foto punya exif data. dari situ... http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/24/Roy_Suryo_Emang_Pakar_yang_Hebat Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:36:00 -0000 ARTIS-ARTIS LEKRA Amrus Natalsya dkk mendirikan Sanggar Bumi Tarung (SBT) di Gampingan, Yogyakarta pada 1961. Mereka mengabdikan karya seni rupa kepada perjuangan kaum buruh dan tani melawan penindasan dan ketidakadilan. Ciri khasnya, pembawa Seni Rupa Perlawanan dan penganut Realisme Revolusioner yang dianggap berbeda dengan realisme sosial kritis yang diusung artis-artis Sanggar Pelukis Rakyat, Seniman Muda Indonesia, dan Persagi pada waktu itu. Ideologinya jelas, bahwa seni itu mesti berpihak. Seni tidak semata-mata urusan estetika. Seni untuk seni adalah adalah kredo melarikan diri (escapism) dari realitas kerakyatan yang tertindas hak-haknya. Ini bukan berarti estetika tidak penting. Hanya saja estetika harus tunduk pada realisme sosialis, karena mendewakan estetika merupakan sikap menyerah dan tak siap memikul tanggung jawab sebagai warga dan sebagai seniman. Kemanjaan seperti itu tidak punya tempat di bumi Indonesia yang masih penuh ketidakadilan sosial yang tajam. Sanggar Bumi Tarung-pun ber... http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/22/ARTIS-ARTIS_LEKRA Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:47:13 -0000 74658 and put your name on http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/23/74658 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:29:00 -0000 TAMAN BUNGA klik black space di mana aja...bagusan lagi drag over! lumayan buat http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/links/item/3/TAMAN_BUNGA Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:47:25 -0000 cara melipat kaos dalam dua detik! andai gw udah tau dari dulu. http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/video/item/1/cara_melipat_kaos_dalam_dua_detik Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:46:48 -0000 si vis pacem, para bellum seandainya para mahasiswa memang melempar bom molotov serta melakukan aksi kekerasan lainnya ketika berhadapan dengan aparat saat melakukan demo anti kenaikan bbm, saya rasa mereka sudah melakukan pilihan komunikasi yang tepat karena kita semua tahu bagaimana bisa berkomunikasi secara intelek dengan aparat. http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/22/si_vis_pacem_para_bellum Mon, 26 May 2008 10:46:00 -0000 Kode Rahasia nerusin dari <a href="http://hagihagi.multiply.com/journal/item/1539/Secret_Code">sini</a> tapi ceritanya gw gubah<img src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/shade.png"> Dapet kiriman dari seorang teman. Menarik, terutama buat yang suka matematika..   Hanya orang yang mempunyai kemampuan lebih yang dapat membuka File ini. Jika seandainya Anda sukses membuka File ini maka Anda akan menemukan nama-nama orang yang pernah dan bisa membuka file ini. Nah sekarang giliran Anda untuk mencobanya!   Seorang laki-laki mau membuka gembok celana perempuan pemijatnya, tetapi ia lupa dengan passwordnya, yang dia ingat hanya lima angka. Berikut petunjuk untuk lima angka tersebut:   1. Angka ke lima di tambah angka ke tiga sama dengan empat belas 2. Angka ke empat lebih besar satu angka dari angka ke dua 3. Angka pertama lebih kecil satu angka dari dua kali angka ke dua 4. Angka ke dua di tambah angka ke tiga sama dengan sepuluh 5. Jumlah keseluruhan angka tersebut sama dengan tiga puluh Berapakah kelima angka tersebut? Jawabannya merupakan kunci untuk membuka File tersebut. Jika Anda berhasil membuka file ini s... http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/21/Kode_Rahasia Fri, 23 May 2008 13:49:00 -0000 Oliver Kahn Signs My Ball:) ntah kenapa sengefansnya sama orang, gw ga pernah minta tandatangannya. waktu 23 761 bagi2 tandatangan di tobucil, manik laluna yang liat gw duduk mojok sambil ngebir gratisan nanya: "ga minta tandatangan?" dan gw jawab dengan songong: "gw ga mau mengkultuskan orang". njisss... satu2nya tokoh yang pernah gw minta tandatangannya pramoedya ananta toer pas (re)launch buku2nya di rumah utan kayu. tetraloginya -yang sebelumnya cuma gw baca fotokopinya pas sma- mahal banget:( jadi waktu itu beli "panggil aku kartini saja" seharga 15ribu (duit di kantong cuma segitu) untuk ditandatangani pram. well, buku itu dipinjem edy chan dan belum dibalikin sampe sekarang... malam ini nambah satu orang lagi: oliver kahn, legenda bayern munchen - legenda sepakbola jerman - pemain terbaik world cup 2002. ga tau juga kenapa gw minta. atmosfir gala dinner with bayern munchen emang berasa holywood kali...and the brigthest star of fc holywood is him. lagian ditengarai, laga bayern munchen lawan timnas ad... http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/19/Oliver_Kahn_Signs_My_Ball Tue, 20 May 2008 16:21:25 -0000 THE MUDFACE http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/18/THE_MUDFACE Sun, 18 May 2008 11:46:25 -0000 "DEMOCRACY: a Work in Progress (1998-2008) " Photo Exhibition You are cordially invited to attend the opening of the Democracy – a Work in Progress (1998-2008) photo exhibition Monday, May 26, 2008 at 6.30 p.m. The Jakarta Post Building Foyer, 4th Floor Jl. Palmerah Barat no. 142-143 Jakarta 10270 Phone: (021) 5300-476, 5300-478 Exhibition continues: May 27-31 2008, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/calendar/item/10001/DEMOCRACY_a_Work_in_Progress_1998-2008_Photo_Exhibition Sun, 18 May 2008 11:38:43 -0000 SHE LOOK RED panen arowana merah di tambak parit baru, tepi sungai kapuas, pontianak. arowana disebut 'siluk' oleh warga setempat. ada tiga varietas siluk merah: merah darah , merah cabe , dan merah oranye. secara gw pemakan segala, kesempatan ngelahap siluk ga boleh terlewat. rasanya? mmm, gw baru tau ikan gurami lebih memuaskan daripada rp50juta...;p hidup red http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/17/SHE_LOOK_RED Thu, 15 May 2008 12:42:52 -0000 西方媒体污蔑中国报道全纪录 sisi lain pemberitaan tibet. setting abeish! ps: ombudsman! mana ombusdman? jangan ngurusin warta biru mulu, http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/links/item/1/1 Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:35:37 -0000 FREE TIBET: No Human Rights, No Olympic boikot olimpiade beijing 2008 atau ga nih? biar foto http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/11/FREE_TIBET_No_Human_Rights_No_Olympic Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:28:18 -0000 JAVA JIIEEEZZZZ!!!!! beginilah kalo bawa alat berat selama 3 hari di jcc. untung ada george clinton "funkadelic" & raul midon. gw juga menikmati gitar2 elektrik yang bertebaran n baru gw liat seperti tom anderson, baker, yamaha pasifica http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/10/JAVA_JIIEEEZZZZ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:53:23 -0000 Emoh Emo Dari ratusan frame, cuma ini yang dapat lima personil My Chemical Romance n beres. Tempatnya ga memadai. Jauh di belakang. Cuma satu undakan yang dipake puluhan fotografer. Minus dah. Penyelenggara fashion show lebih pintar, bikin tiga undakan. Yang 'boikot' kali ini Asossiated Press. Yang lain mungkin udah emoh emosi. Konsernya? Ga tau. Ga minat nonton. Mungkin Soleh sebentar lagi akan merilis tulisan band yang emoh disebut emo ini. Kata Gerard Way, emo is "a pile of shit." NB: Balik dari JCC, denger cerita yang bikin ngelus dada dari OB yang ambil id. Kata Java, ambil id j14. J14 ke sana, ga ada siapa2. Balik lagi sore. Nanya baik2 sama pihak keamanan Java, malah dibentak. Kok ga behave http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/8/Emoh_Emo Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:35:08 -0000 dia bilang saya... <pre>selalu melayap mencuri jiwa setiap orang dan hal yang ditemuinya semata karena menarik perhatiannya. dengan senang hati menerima pesanan siap, bidik, tembak! dengan langkah kaki tanpa suara untuk mengisi celengan babinya. ini demi membuat 'perempuan berlekuk berkualitas suara impian'. hadir secara sporadis dalam perbincanganperbincangan menohok pikiran demi orgasmeorgasme otak. kawan berkomplot yang bersemangat dalam menjajah sudutsudut kuliner demi, lagilagi, orgasmeorgasme...mulut.</pre> http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/12/dia_bilang_saya... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:09:02 -0000 idul fitri @sunda kelapa jepret suasana sholat id di pelabuhan sunda kelapa. bareng rieska dari jiji pers. berangkat jam 5 pagi. jemput dia dulu di cempaka putih. buset dah, cari alamat di cempaka putih emang menyebalkan. no rumah ga urut! sempet hujan pula. kebayang gagal motret. untung cepet reda. biar gambar beda dari tukang2 jepret lainnya, gw n rieska ga langsung ke pelabuhan. mampir dulu ke kampung luar batang. warga di sana mesti nyebrang naik perahu untuk ke pelabuhan. zhang dari xinhua gabung. tapi rada telat. ngerasa cukup, baru ke pelabuhan. buset dah, banyak banget tukang jepret. ga cuma dari pers, tapi juga hobiis (banyakan malah). yasud. http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/photos/album/6/idul_fitri_sunda_kelapa Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:31:42 -0000 I'm The Sith Lord...unto me every knee shall bow <a href="http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Games/The_Ultimate_Star_Wars_Personality_Test/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.liquidgeneration.com/content/190407/Card_Palpatine.jpg" border="0"></a> http://sisyphuswashappy.multiply.com/journal/item/11/Im_The_Sith_Lord...unto_me_every_knee_shall_bow Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:24:04 -0000