Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?

[LadyForCamus]

But how do we give meaning to experience itself? To “I”? Some people leverage that experience for its own sake is the meaning, but I just don’t follow. I’m missing something.

I think I see what you're getting at, and now I'm confused too.  It's one thing to say "that was a meaningful experience," but what's going on under the hood?

Exactly. How can “I” assign meaning to “me”? That seems…I dunno. Circular? And is the statement, “experience itself has no meaning” necessarily nihilistic? Can it be psychologically acceptable to say: “I have no meaning; I have no way of assigning meaning to myself, but I’d still prefer to continue experiencing…at least for now”? And if, some day, I stop wanting to have experiences, is that necessarily pathological, or “bad for me”?


I’ll duck as you all throw the tomatoes. 🍅😛