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Originally Posted by Heteronym
I have no problems with thinking; only with thinkers who replace one bad idea (there is a God) with another bad idea (there is no God and now we're miserable because life is meaninggless; what are we going to do). The real thinkers who have stormed the gates of Heaven - Voltaire, Condorcet, Jefferson, d'Holbach, Hume, Russell - didn't have existential crises from denying God: for them it was freedom. For existentialists like Camus and Sartre it's a new prison. That mentality makes no sense.
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...clearly (even more so, now) you have understood little to nothing of Camus' philosophy (or Sartre's for that matter - kindly re-read
Existentialism is a Humanism; somewhere he calls existentialism an optimistic philosophy). When Camus arrives @ "the point is to live" it is something of an optimistic jolt to a situation that only outwardly (i.e. from where you are standing) seems depressing. Au contraire, there is something life-affirming in Camus' ultimate conclusion, something (yes, gasp!) positive.