Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?

[Ahriman]

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?

Yeah see, that's a mistake. I don't consider relationships meaningful. I'm using a different standard for "meaning" than you are.