This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' four Letters To A German Friend (anthologized in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays)

Specifically it examines the second letter, which builds upon and expands themes from the first letter, specifically holding one's country to standards. This is connected with a refusal to subordinate or suppress intelligence in favor of a misguided patriotism.

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Albert Camus, Letter To A German Friend - Letter 2: The Price Of Intelligence - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' four Letters To A German Friend (anthologized in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays)

Specifically it examines the third letter, which elaborates the theme of the meaning of Europe, a matter where fascists and nationalists like the Nazis view matters one way and other Europeans view matters differently. The Nazis view Europe as something to possess and dominate, a system of resources to exploit. Camus advocates viewing Europe much as he views France, as something valuable, to which one can belong, and which has to be held to standards of justice and truth.

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Albert Camus, Letter To A German Friend - Letter 3: Europe's Meaning - Sadler's Lectures

This is what it sounds like when the voice in your head starts asking questions you can’t answer.

No meaning, no message — just fragments, loops, and quiet collapse.

If you’re looking for hope, skip this.
If you’re looking for truth, sit down. Put on headphones. Don’t look away.

The Threshold

Who are you behind the mask?

Where am i?

It begins here...

i obsess over it, it’s one of my worst fears but you cannot stop the inevitable everyone dies you have to let it happen let it pass and it will fade away eventually 

Layered guitar + my voice = existentialism

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Through darkness, destiny is carved in stone
Yet man has been given the fragile gift of free will,
And for a fleeting breath, he believes he can rewrite what already awaits him.
Lives cross upon the thin thread allowed by time.

Connections are formed, bonds are forged in fire or in silence.
But neither time nor life belongs to us;
Every choice is a knife plunged into eternity — and every destiny, the blade returning to the hand.

Lives are taken, even when we fight against the current.
And when the future is poisoned by worms that feed on deceit,
Only the vengeance of a stolen love remains,
Returning to chaos to demand its due.

The man who keeps his word seals his own oath with blood.
And when the primal instinct shatters the bars of morality,
The true human nature is revealed:
Chaos, destruction, and death.

Love and hate become indistinguishable,
Fused into a single incandescent metal.
Physical death is but the first gate.
In darkness, this wretched existence shall face eternal punishment.
But in the world of men,
It shall know the purest, deepest meaning of pain…
And despair.

R.I.P. B.M.C

There Where Silence Buries The Light and The Heart Turns Blade Against Fate

"In The Symmetrical Moment of Time, Where The Light of The Cursed One’s Life Fades, He is Delivered To The Despair and The Pain That Echo in The Void of Darkness."

This composition is an auditory meditation on the irrevocable moment when the condemned understands: his fate was inscribed before his first breath. The symmetry of time unveils its cruel perfection — the same void awaiting him at the end has dwelled within him from the beginning. The melody is not a lament, but the cold acknowledgment that suffering is not punishment, but the final truth.

"His sentence is not death, but eternity in the void — where his victim's scream echoes within his own flesh."

Inexistential

In The Symmetrical Moment of Time, Where The Light of The Cursed One’s Life Fades, He is Delivered To The Despair and The Pain That Echo in The Void of Darkness

In The Symmetrical Moment of Time, Where The Light of The Cursed One’s Life Fades.

I Fulfilled My Promise and Walked Through the Limbo, Met the Entities of Darkness, Descended Without Fear into the Depths of the Abyss and Cast Myself into Non-Existence, for in the End There Was Never Hope.

The Fulfilled Promise Led Me Through Limbo and Shadows, Where Nonexistence and Hopelessness Awaited

☆ 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔢 𝔅𝔞𝔡 ℌ𝔦𝔤𝔥 𝔈𝔵𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢.  ☆

,,𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔞𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠."

Here, the primordial truth reigns sovereign, dismantling the frail architecture of human narratives.

It is not a band. It is not art. It is not entertainment. It is a fragment of primordial darkness, an extension of the void materialized in time and space to convey the absolute truth.

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