Absurdism News Today

Director and Oingo Boingo founder Richard Elfman's cult classic Forbidden Zone is holding a special screening of the absurdist film on Saturday at the Texas Theatre.

The legend of Sisyphus begins with a man who, if we are to believe Homer, was one of the wisest and most prudent of mortals. Nonetheless he would fall out of favor with the gods of ancient Greece. He was taken to the kingdom of the underworld and was forced to endure one of the most pointless and excruciating punishments of ancient mythology.

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." The most important aspects of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy.

An image of the Pope in a puffy coat went viral this weekend, and as it turns out, it was fake.

Because of Camus, I started to believe in the idea of relative truth and realised how differently people may weigh the different aspects and incidents which occur in their lives.

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Movement to the right wing. ten years later, kansas is no longer the frontier. its the laboratory for ultra conservative ideas throughout the entire country. >> kansas governor sam brownback signed into law a bill that requires voters to prove their citizenship before registering to vote for the first time. >> sam brownbeck signed into law a bill that requires drug tests. >> sam brownback signed into w law -- >> sam brownback signed a bill into law that cuts taxes for the richest people in the s...