Is It a Foreshadowing, or a Form of Worship?

Life is suffering. There's no more basic, irrefutable truth. The fact of life's tragedy and the suffering that is part of it has been used to justify the pursuit of immediate selfish gratification for a very long time. Follow your impulses. Do what's expedient. Lie, cheat, steal, deceive, manipulate, but don't get caught in an ultimately meaningless universe. And why not simply take everything whenever you can? Why not determine whether or not we should live our lives as if there was any meaning at all?" "Every man for himself," he writes: 'has taken the hindmost most old proverb'"Let us leave signs of enjoyment because this is our portion and...