RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 5, 2019 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2019 at 10:57 am by Acrobat.)
(September 5, 2019 at 10:36 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Your loquacious bullshit is nothing more than effete justification of avoidance by the complacently idle.
How many people trouble themselves with meaning when survival is convincingly imperiled but can still plausibly be fought for and maintained? The dominant priority becomes clear when only one of the two two can sought.
Meaning fundamentally has no real meaning whatsoever. The search for meaning is the search for illusion by those temporarily not on the verge of extinction who imagine they are not lessened by avoidance of reality, indulging in a set of urges ultimately implanted by the quirk of genetics of neurological circuitry whose dominant shaping factor had always been adaptation to the need for survival.
People are plagued by the idea of meaning.
Imagine I could take your life without feeling any pain whatsoever. Perhaps in your sleep so you wouldn't even know the moment it was coming.
Would you take this offer? Probably not. If I asked you why not, why would you want to be in this world, rather than not be at all?
If you're honest, the answer wouldn't be survival, survival would just be a means for some other end, some other purpose that's not survival itself.
Imagine if I offered it to someone who finds his life meaningless, without purpose, or even the hope of ever acquiring it. Such a person will likely take me up on it. Prefer the idea of not being, to being
My dog may not be able to contemplate the question of being and not being. But we can, and that question plagues the human condition, often subtlety and in the background.
