(April 2, 2019 at 3:44 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(April 1, 2019 at 1:53 pm)Acrobat Wrote: The atheists seems to believe in a world in which man creates his own meaning, that there's near endless options as to what can constitute as a meaningful life, so to each is own. As a surveyor of meaning, there isn't multiple meanings to life, there's just one, only seen with great effort. Those who don't see that are just perpetually lost, bewildered and disappointed, chasing after false gods.
That the world is filled with men just staring at shadows in the cave, in denial or ignorant of the light outside of it.
So, you know the meaning of life, the universe and everything. And you know this, how?
Meaning isn't given, it's found. Conscious beings are free to find their own meaning. Some will simply follow the claims of their religion. Others will find their own path. For me, the second is far more satisfying, but to each their own.
I'll agree with you on one part, meaning is found, it's not created by us. In order for meaning to be found, there has to be a meaning to find. Absent of such a meaning, there is no meaning to find, just meaninglessness.