Into the Absurd On Death and God (Full Audio Book)
Is your life worth more than your will to live?
Follow John on a mind-bending quest through Hell to slay the gods and save everything he ever loved.
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Chapter time stamps:
Intro – 00:00
Dear Reader – 05:43
The Dream – 07:35
Welcome to the Machine – 16:50
Dead and Dying – 43:16
Life and Living – 50:29
The Storm – 01:26:31
All The Way Down – 01:38:56
Under the Stars – 02:06:09
The Desert of High Noon - 02:12:43
The Forbidden Fruit – 02:22:06
Into the Abyss – 02:32:28
Ultimatums of a Dead Man – 02:47:43
The Souls of the Damned – 02:52:37
Eternity – 03:06:31
The Labyrinth – 03:19:21
The Eternal Flame – 03:44:27
The Light – 04:03:01
The Serpent – 04:13:13
The Man Who Killed God – 04:20:05
On Death and God – 04:23:23
Epilogue – 04:38:27
Notes from the Editor – 04:39:39
Referenced works (not read in audio book--only in written version):
- Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, aphorism 125 “The Madman”
- Christopher Ryan in his podcast, Tangentially Speaking
- Netflix TV series, Black Mirror
- Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self
- Ted Kaczynski’s “Industrial Society and its Future”
- Dr. Chris Ryan’s Civilized to Death
- Camus’ The Stranger
- There is a very large number of translations of the Bhagavad-Gita that currently exist. “I am come as Death, destroyer of worlds.” Is said in many different ways across these translations.
- See Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil quote, “The good man sees the whole world as evil.” Also see Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael.
- See Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols, “How the ‘Real World’ at last became a myth”
- Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
- See Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All the Way Down” from Metamodern Sound in Country Music.
- Twilight of the Idols , “The Four Great Errors”.
- Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha
- Philip Mainlander’s concept of the universe being the heat death of God
- Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”
- Nietzsche’s “The Three Metamorphoses” from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Sturgill Simpson’s “Make Art Not Friends” from Sound and Fury
- See history of the first assassins: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/assassins
- Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche’s quote, “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” From Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Mentioned Songs
“Come as You Are” by Nirvana
“A Horse with No Name” by America
“The Trip” by Still Corners