I mean “the meaning of life” is a myth. You can find it meaningful but there isn’t some answer out there.
Think of it like free will. When most people think of it they think “a specific person could make any decision physically possible” and imply they might make a different one if you went back in time. Instead we do make decisions freely, but those decisions are completely determined by the way our mind works and the influences we have encountered.
The point I’m trying to make is that it can exist, but it’s different from how people colloquially imagine it (say, someone asking an omniscient being “what is the meaning of life?”).
I mean “the meaning of life” is a myth. You can find it meaningful but there isn’t some answer out there.
Answer to what? That seems dumb, I find plenty of purpose in everyday life. This idea of there being some sort of transcendent purpose to existence is what I mean when I say people are reliant on the idea of God for meaning. Christians culturally hyped themselves up for there being some fucking Thanos Infinity War that all of life is trending towards and got angry when they realized they were wrong and, in fact, it does not justify being assholes to the majority of humanity.
I agree with you completely, by the way. I just dislike how we have painted this idea of transcendent meaning as somehow better than the purpose given to us in our impulses and desires. I don’t know if a world with an objective, transcendent meaning would even be enjoyable to live in. It might actually be miserable to live in. Everything not bending towards that one purpose would become universally meaningless.
I mean “the meaning of life” is a myth. You can find it meaningful but there isn’t some answer out there.
Think of it like free will. When most people think of it they think “a specific person could make any decision physically possible” and imply they might make a different one if you went back in time. Instead we do make decisions freely, but those decisions are completely determined by the way our mind works and the influences we have encountered.
The point I’m trying to make is that it can exist, but it’s different from how people colloquially imagine it (say, someone asking an omniscient being “what is the meaning of life?”).
Answer to what? That seems dumb, I find plenty of purpose in everyday life. This idea of there being some sort of transcendent purpose to existence is what I mean when I say people are reliant on the idea of God for meaning. Christians culturally hyped themselves up for there being some fucking Thanos Infinity War that all of life is trending towards and got angry when they realized they were wrong and, in fact, it does not justify being assholes to the majority of humanity.
I agree with you completely, by the way. I just dislike how we have painted this idea of transcendent meaning as somehow better than the purpose given to us in our impulses and desires. I don’t know if a world with an objective, transcendent meaning would even be enjoyable to live in. It might actually be miserable to live in. Everything not bending towards that one purpose would become universally meaningless.