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[Serious] Meaning in Life
#11
RE: Meaning in Life
I found meaning in life via my relationship with my girlfriend. That relationship, sadly, might be over. So I may have to resort to the kind of complete bullshit nihilism that most atheists don't actually believe in.

To be fair ... I wouldn't technically be nihilistic. I do think that there is meaning in life in general and that meaning comes from us. I'd just be so depressed that I'd be one of the people incapable of feeling like there was any meaning.

I think meaning has to be felt. I've been depressed in my life in the past. And, to me, depression always feels like meaninglessness/nihilism.

It's probably the case that the reason why I'm actually depressed is ultimately for neurobiological reasons. But my mind is going to rationalize things. And even when I recognize that that rationalization may be irrational: I have to make sense of things in some way. Such is the nature of being human. And feeling like everything is meaningless is how my brain makes sense of its neurobiological suffering.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
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#12
RE: Meaning in Life
I find meaning in life in the relationships and growth of experience of individuals. I also find joy in simple things and meaning in increasing joy in others.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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#13
RE: Meaning in Life
I think that accepting everyday life, the repetitions from day to day, week to week, making room for new experiences along the way meanwhile doing the repetitions. It's a matter of perspective for me. I could wallow in the repetitions, that they're necessary boredoms or some shit, but instead I'd rather just accept them as necessary and get on with them and just get it done. With that out of the way I've made room for new takes, new thoughts, new experiences. I find that gives my life meaning. Sorta abstract, sorry.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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#14
RE: Meaning in Life
Good music gives me some meaning.

Good philosophy gives me the most meaning I can get from a non-relationship.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
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#15
RE: Meaning in Life
(July 18, 2020 at 2:14 am)ignoramus Wrote: *cough*. This is a [Serious] thread ...

One of many, it seems.  Angel
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell  Popcorn

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