Author: bkerr
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Enacting a Metaphor Related to Sitting Zazen That is Evocative But I Don’t Think Quite Rolls All the Way Up, As It Were
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As the Subject of a Web-Based Video Game in the Incremental, Idle, or Clicker Genre
“Version 0.2.0 of Sisyphus Ascends Idle. Current content ending warning is now in-game. Intended to get early feedback on the game. The save game will most likely not be compatible going forward, even though I will try.” https://submission07.itch.io/sisyphus-ascends-idle
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With Clearly-Defined Job Responsibilities
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As Pattern CORE-096 in Dave Gray’s “visual frameworks”
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With a Tote Bag Falling Off Damn Shoulder
(Stolen from agent J.)
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Reposting the Same Jokes Over and Over and Claiming It’s Part of the Joke
If Twitter is still online when you read this, the tweet is/was at this url. (Thanks to Agent L-II.)
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Feeling the Pump Bro
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Subjected to an Eternity of Treacly Horseshit by Way of a Cliche-Emitting LLM
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Updated to WordPress 6.2
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A Divinely-Appointed Fitness Guru
The Myth of Sisyphus pic.twitter.com/FP4BTGGnoM — The Perry Bible Fellowship (@PBFcomics) March 1, 2023 (Agent L. bringing the stuff.)
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Caught in an Endless Spiral of Metaphor
(A statement by Agent L.)
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Waiting for Somebody to Pronounce His Name Correctly
(A statement by Agent S.)
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Catchin’ Up on His Podcasts
https://cohost.org/exempli-g/post/1072797-we-must-imagine-sisy
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Groovin
One Must Imagine Sisyphus Groovin by Sisyphus On Ecstasy
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Condemned to Build Houses of Different Sizes and Shapes
A strange example discussed in Very Bad Wizards Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom), Starting at 1:16:05, also the reason I made this little web site. General discussion of Sisyphus begins at 1:14:20.
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As a Hotdog Framed Art Print by Matt Harness
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As Used by Paul Bloom as an Example of the Relationship Between Activities and Goals
There might be a pleasure in the exercise of what philosophers call atelic activities, things that you can never complete because they have no end. (“Telos” means purpose; “atelic” means without purpose.) Think of an aimless walk or just goofing around with friends. But in general, it’s hard to sustain effort at atelic tasks, particularly…
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Crappy
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On the Phone With His Parents
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Rolling a Boulder Into a Trolley Problem Featuring the Ship of Theseus and Hilbert’s Hotel
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Happy
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…