RE: Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?
October 28, 2021 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2021 at 12:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I can get why people think it's ridiculous to seek meaning that isn't there. Some troll on an internet board says "this is meaning" and they're wrong, just pulling things out of their ass even by their own admission.
But useless pieces of shit like that don't explain why people consider other descriptions of meaning to be equivalent to those. It's probably safe to posit that Ahri lives a meaningless life - that whatever meaning there is to be found, Ahri doesn't have access. I doubt, for example, that anyone loves Ahri more than Ahri loves itself, or it's own ideas. That it's failed to create or discover the sort of relationships we take to be meaningful or to signify meaning. That, in short, Ahri and many things like it assert constricted and batshit senses of meaning to console themselves over the lack of anything real in their lives, in this life. That they..personally..are wrong about meaning from the outset and so cannot help but reach the sorts of conclusions that might strike a thinking person as...deficient...to say the least.
But what explains people who aren't complete dirtballs and their created or discovered meanings..our own?
But useless pieces of shit like that don't explain why people consider other descriptions of meaning to be equivalent to those. It's probably safe to posit that Ahri lives a meaningless life - that whatever meaning there is to be found, Ahri doesn't have access. I doubt, for example, that anyone loves Ahri more than Ahri loves itself, or it's own ideas. That it's failed to create or discover the sort of relationships we take to be meaningful or to signify meaning. That, in short, Ahri and many things like it assert constricted and batshit senses of meaning to console themselves over the lack of anything real in their lives, in this life. That they..personally..are wrong about meaning from the outset and so cannot help but reach the sorts of conclusions that might strike a thinking person as...deficient...to say the least.
But what explains people who aren't complete dirtballs and their created or discovered meanings..our own?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
