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cm0002 @lemmy.world

7d ago

The Existential Comics

E is for Ennui -

Source: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/602

Alt-Text:

Big Bird: "The next letter is G. God is for God, who doesn't exist, and if God doesn't exist, that means everything is permitted..."

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I thought it was just boredom but in a pretentious and French way...
- The word is loaned 1:1 from the french word for boredom
- https://youtu.be/dJfHF312STE
  
  Yeah, exactly that.
- It's literally just a French word.
  Yeah, there's no need for the redundancy, really; if you say “French” you can omit “pretentious”, it's already implied.
  
  The French, truly an oppressed populace.
  
  Pal, all the "racism" you speak of is only in your mind. My comment at no time was meant to be denigrating to the French,
  I mentioned French because I know ennui is a French word, which I understood was used by philosophers to speak of a kind of "transcendental" and therefore "pretentious" boredom. So no, I didn't say the French were pretentious, if you thought I was.
  Sorry if i wasn't clear enough.
  
  Va prendre un café

Wait, what do you mean it's nameless? It's called Ennui? Is that not it's name?
- The combination is ennui. Ennui is a conglomeration of despair inducing feelings, among which is the nameless horror.
  
  Ah, ok. I thought it was an umbrella term, not a conglomerate.

N is for Neville, who died of ennui.
https://youtu.be/iMSdV9misgc

This feels like a very Tumblr joke. Purple prose trying too hard to expand on a simple concept, ultimately losing any real connection to the starting context.

Frogs aren't happy.....I had a frog in my back yard last year for 2 weeks. He just screamed bloody murder the entire time. Just hours and hours of screaming at 2am.
I don't know if he hopped away, or if he got eaten by a predator, but I feel like I appriciate the circle of life a little bit more knowing that fuckers probably dead.
- He wasn't necessarily unhappy. He was probably horny, though.
  
  That's a good stratagy. I'm going to go to the bar this weekend and just stand next to women. Then just start screaming as if I'm being stabbed, while a basket of puppies burn in a fire. All with an erection.
  What could possibly go wrong?

N is Neville who died of ennui
- The Gashlycrumb Tinies!

Sometimes frogs are brown.
- They may have dyuers coloures.

Fuck me... That's a real word.
- Taken from french, maybe ? IDK, I'm not a languiste.
  
  Yes. It's french for "boredom", but the kind of boredom that's results from life being too easy. It's like being an over-achieving student in a class where the teacher is focused on the kids who are struggling to catch up.

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