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I'd ask "Why do you need meaning?". Why not just accept that life is meaningless, and any meaning you bring to it is ultimately of your own construction. Seems a lot simpler than continually searching for meaning or purpose, doomed never to find it because it simply does not exist. All evidence seems to indicate that we're complex meat robots, whose existence is basically inevitable given the right initial conditions…
If you put a hamster in a cage with a wheel it will, more or less merrily, continue to run along that wheel until it eventually becomes physically unable to and, in the longrun, passes. It's the blessing, and the curse of humanity, to stop and actually consider at some point, why am I doing this? And these questions aren't just an abstract search for meaning. Getting back to Aurelius, he and his son were given compar…
Re: Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
#191Right, but how do you know that your stopping and considering isn't just spinning a larger wheel? What are you accomplishing?