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Earlier, we looked at Sisyphus, doomed to a futile existence of pushing a boulder up a mountain
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Let us picture Sisyphus at the top of the mountain
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Now freeze! Look at the face of Sisyphus as he stands there, exhausted
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We have now frozen Sisyphus in the space between the stimulus (the boulder rolling down the mountain) and his response
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In Chapter 1, I suggested that despite his hard life, Sisyphus could be happy
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In his essay, The Myth of Sisyphus,[73] Albert Camus tries to explain how we can live in what he describes as an “absurd” world, and still be happy
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The Absurd but Happy Life of Sisyphus
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The hero of the Camus essay, perhaps the prototypically absurd person, is Sisyphus
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You’ll recall that Sisyphus angered the gods, and they set out to punish him
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Sisyphus is doomed to eternal futility
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Tragically, Sisyphus knows his fate
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Despite Sisyphus’s tragic existence, Camus imagines he is happy, though he does not fully explain why
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So, let us try to understand how Sisyphus could be happy
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Sisyphus remaining happy in spite of a terrible situation is the essence of absurdity
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Reason demands that Sisyphus must be miserable
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The fact that Camus imagined that Sisyphus was happy means that he believed in a power to be happy that does not obey the laws of reason
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[75] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p
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[77] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p
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[78] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p
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[79] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p
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[82] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, pp
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were in biz to syphen riff
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Other sources also allege that patients developed conditions such as syphilis and HIV due to contaminated organs
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Why would I want to live like Sisyphus: pushing a boulder to the top of the hill, just to find that the boulder has rolled back down to the bottom of the hill, and then pushing the boulder back to the top of the hill, just to find it at the bottom again, and then repeating this cursed cycle forever? A rational being who rejects faith and hope would see the pointlessness of these actions and stop acting, preferring instead nothingness (death?) and an end to the senseless activity
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Yet no "rational" person stops acting, stops repeating the Sisyphean cycle
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And Misdeus and Charisius when they could not persuade them not to be of this opinion granted them their own will; And all the brothers assembled together for the blessed one had made Syphorus a presbyter in the mountain and Juzanius a deacon when he was led away to die; And the Lord helped them and they increased the faith by means of them
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And his son being healed in this manner met with the rest of the brothers who were under the rule of Syphorus and entreated the brothers to pray for him that he might obtain mercy from our Lord Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever
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he was suffering from syphilis or a tooth ache
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In any case the worst thing was probably syphilis and this was curable these days
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I was aroused – no doubt about that, but what did I know about these guys? Didn’t syphilis come from Arabs sleeping with camels? Desire drained and I shook my head
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I refused from depression triggered by exhaustion and impotence; she refused because her father had died of syphilis
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Christ, there you go getting all deep and awful syphilisophical again
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The myth of Sisyphus has given birth to the expression “Sisyphean work”, which indicates vain work, i
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Let us try to reason around this myth: the way which it is normally told emphasizes the difficulty and the toil of Sisyphus work
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Hence the double horror of Sisyphus´ task
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Whether it be simple or difficult, the point is not only the condition of a defeated Sisyphus, but in the peremptory impossibility of succeeding: there is nothing to give Sisyphus hope for success
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Maybe we are tempted to think that Sisyphus is simply fulfilling his destiny
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Let us then suppose that Zeus in a moment of goodness (mercifulness) decides to be less violent and make Sisyphus feel an irresistible and irrational pleasure when moving stones of any type and dimension (a chemical substance, an elixir etc
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Sisyphus is happy to move the
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– do we assign them to our collaborators? Is it useful to be happy with a job that has no sense? What does Sisyphus transmit to us then? Absurdness!
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But why do I have to push a stone? Because Sisyphus does? Why do not people ask themselves why they are pushing the stone instead of concentrating merely on the "strain" and "uselessness" of the task?
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Sisyphus betrays a pact
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There were over 180,000 cases of gonorrhoea and syphilis among
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From 1932 to 1972, black and white professionals from Tuskegee University and public health services cooperated on the destructive Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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They deceived 400 African-American sharecropper men, whom the researchers diagnosed as having syphilis
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They withheld medicine from them even after penicillin became a proven cure for syphilis
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I present the background to why some historians identify these same missionary demobilizing problems when analyzing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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Some of the same reasons for this failure to mobilize African Americans also apply to the shameful Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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legend has it that my Bahamian grandfather possibly had syphilis, which
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Only pain and the joy of Sisyphus struggling uphill forever
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They then proceeded to syphon nearly all of the ship's fuel
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Is this the best we can do: be Sisyphuses of recycling, reproducing meaning from being green, resourcing existential purpose from personal self-sustainability, while still misidentifying the principle terrorist to a people's democracy, to a caring humanity, to life in general and consciousness in particular – money, just simple fucking money?
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daughter to spend the night with Sisyphus
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the results of malaria, syphilis, rabies and all of the other major diseases or
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None of them succeeded in binding Than except Sisyphus and Hercules, but they had tried
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Which of the following is correct regarding syphilis?
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Secondary syphilis is associated with foot drop and wide based gait
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Tertiary syphilis is associated with pupils being able to constrict to light
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Female patient with syphilis who is pregnant and allergic to penicillin should receive ceftriaxone
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Secondary syphilis is associated with “nickel and dime” lesions on palms and soles
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Correct Answer: Choice E (Secondary syphilis is associated with “nickel and dime” lesions on palms and soles)
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· Secondary syphilis is associated with lesions on the palms and soles that look like nickels and dimes
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· Tertiary syphilis (also known as neurosyphilis) is associated with aortitis and neurological manifestations
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Choice E (Secondary syphilis is associated with “nickel and dime” lesions on palms and soles) is the correct answer
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· Choice A (Secondary syphilis is associated with foot drop and wide based gait): This is describing tabes dorsalis, a condition where patient has foot slapping and wide based gait
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Tabes dorsalis is actually a part of neurosyphilis, which makes this choice incorrect
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· Choice C (Tertiary syphilis is associated with pupils being able to constrict to light): Argyll Robinson pupil is one that is able to constrict to accommodation and not to light
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Choice C is saying that it is able to constrict to light in tertiary syphilis which is the wrong answer
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psychological retellings of the myth of Sisyphus
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bending over the papers to continue with his Sisyphusian fight
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By the 3rd year of their enlistment, literally all of his Napoleon’s soldiers were infected with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, etc
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When the disease of Syphilis, and other European infectious new diseases reached the western-most ports of those countries
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The spread of European culture and civilization was synchronized with the spread of Syphilis and Typhoid, and other diseases that killed more people across the Earth than all the massacres and genocides and killings combined by European killers
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Western Historians have even tried to blame the aboriginal natives of South American for spreading the disease of Syphilis around the world! When it was the other way around
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It was the syphilitic European scum who infected the innocent Americans
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Syphilis was a prevalent disease in Roman times all around the Mediterranean
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Now; in light of new evidence, and more accurate DNA testing and carbon dating techniques: it has been medically proven that it was actually the richest elite in Europe who suffered from Syphilis
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Syphilis is a male disease
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Why did Bram Stoker: an Irish national, write about a completely foreign land about foreign customs and foreign myths: why did he die of the ugliest form of Syphilis there is: the deformation of the face; turning the head, and body into a horrible monster? Because he raped women
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“Sisyphus,” she said
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Sisyphus, the program was called at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
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Sisyphus had prepared him for enemy interrogation—or so the Army instructors had told him
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Sisyphus had been another fraud invented by the U
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Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his potsherd
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Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!"
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If feasible use a syphon to a lower level (a) to draw off water without disturbing the still
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“Look at the physiological injustice, the injustice of tetanus, the injustice of syphilis, the gangster methods of amoebic dysentery—that’s my field
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261 [I could use some salvarsan] Salvar san, earlier known as 606, was the proprietary trademark name for arsphenamine, which in the 1930s was the drug most widely used for the treatment of syphilis and other spirochetal infections
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” And, “I got it from a man in the know—she has syphilis, you know
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One has blown out his brains, another has rotted away from the effects of syphilitic poison; this old man succumbed to sexual excesses, this young man to a wild outburst of sensuality; one died of drunkenness, another of gluttony, another from the abuse of morphine, another from an induced abortion
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with his opríchniks, the drunken syphilitic Peter with his fools, the harlot Catherine with her lovers, ruled over the industrious religious Russians of their time and did violence to them
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with his Opritchniks, the tipsy syphilitic Peter with his clowns, the prostitute Catharine with her lovers, ruled over the industrious, God-fearing Russian people of those times, and trampled upon them
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If we are now able to inoculate preventatively with diphtheritic microbes, to find a needle in a body by means of X-rays, to straighten a hunched-back, cure syphilis, and perform wonderful operations, we should not be proud of these acquisitions either (even were they all established beyond dispute) if we fully understood the true purpose of real science
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There would be no poor-blooded and deformed children growing up in factories, no death-rates, as now, of fifty per cent among children, no deterioration of whole generations, no prostitution, no syphilis, and no murdering of hundreds of thousands in wars, nor those horrors of folly and of misery which our present science considers a necessary condition of human life
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We have so perverted the conception of science that it seems strange to men of our day to allude to sciences which should prevent the mortality of children, prostitution, syphilis, the deterioration of whole generations, and the wholesale murder of men
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with his favorites, the syphilitic drunken Peter with his buffoons, the vicious Catherine with her paramours, ruled and oppressed the industrious religious Russians of their times
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I have proved by actual experiment that a cubic foot of Runcorn Stone will take up three quarts of water by capillarity, and that it is possible to make a syphon of solid sandstone which will empty a vessel of water into another vessel by capillarity alone
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