JA WestenbergNot one single "free thinker" who told me to "question everything" in 2020 has questioned a single thing since 2024. Turns out questioning everything meant questioning the specific things that made you feel smart at parties.
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Carlos Solís@debiani386 @Daojoan Question deep enough, and you eventually land on either nihilism or absurdism. Any other position requires willingly stopping at some point and taking a position as self-evident.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESafter you realize life has no meaning, you then realize you can fill it with any meaning you want it to have. then life has meaning. there's no cosmic philosophical law you are breaking by doing that
nihilism is a temporary teenager thing. it's quite natural, common, normal
anyone who gets stuck in it though, that's a whole other enchilada
Log 🪵@csolisr @Daojoan @debiani386 When you know life has no meaning, and you go on about it anyway, some people see that as a threat, because it repudiates one or more of their foundational assumptions.
And the smartest thing to do at a party is make friends with the dog.
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and going for a walk
@csolisr @Daojoan @debiani386 If anyone needs a meaning and hasn't got enough philosophy juice to work out their own, there's always building a fungus god that spans the entire observable universe, who gives out free food, water, drugs, and communications networks to anyone, whether they believe in the power of Juffo-Wup or not. It's easy to start. Just grow some mushrooms at home. And annihilate any human who appears to be trying to cause Kessler Syndrome around Earth,.
CyIsn't that the plot of Star Trek: Discovery?
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Well of course it repudiates a foundational assumption: the expectation of rational allocation of resources. Doing things knowing full well that their end result is going to disappear, instead of not doing things to avoid the waste of energy for the exact same end result, is the definition of absurd - hence why that branch of nihilism is best known as absurdism. (Or by some recalcitrants, as "copium".)
Paul Cantrell@csolisr @dalias @debiani386 @Daojoan
Sartre’s “Myth of Sisyphus” answered this line of thought very much to my taste.
Sartre’s “Myth of Sisyphus” answered this line of thought very much to my taste.