I purse no meaning. I live life, doing what I like when I can and what I must, the rest of the time.
If there is a higher meaning to life and that meaning is the plan of a higher being; it stands to reason that whatever it is, I'm already doing it.

Ever since high school I always enjoyed the great physicist Niels Bohr's line, "The meaning of life is that it's meaningless." Go up to your roof some starry night and regard the full expanse of the universe horizon to horizon. What meaning could it possibly have? IT JUST IS.

You can choose to think of it as absurd, or you can give it a meaning of your own choice, the universe is just that way, it could care less.

Every cloud has a silver lining I say.

It's not absurd to pursue meaning. It's in our nature to want purpose, meaning, self-actualization. The trick is to understand that there is no external force or power to give that to us. We decide what meaning is and how we will obtain it. For Me, it's my friends and family, even people I don't know, and making their lives more pleasant, or less painful, and leave Myself as a warm memory, something they remember when times are rough. Maybe even a kind of inspiration to help them through.

Absurdity is a stage of our species evolution. Hopefully, we evolve beyond it.

When I think about how a human can only interpret the world through his senses, and how our senses do not reveal anything much about reality, how can I but accept that life itself is absurd?

To treat life as anything but absurd would be absurd but of course that would make you absurd either way. I just like to wake up and find myself pleasantly surprised that I am still here for another day of absurdity and I work hard at it, no particular reason, just something I like to do.

It hasn't been an issue. Life does have meaning, it just doesn't require a prescribed meaning. To me it is derived from the pursuit and occasional fulfillment of well-being. Mindfulness exercises help. Thankfulness and reminders of one's incredible comparative luck also go far. I don't know that taking an absurdist stance on it makes the pursuit any harder or easier, though. I tend to rate things more by their effectiveness than their potential worth, thankfully - I assume every technique is worth it if people are happy with it. If absurdist works for you, more power to you. Do more! If not, take the parts that are good and keep the nose to the grindstone.

My own humble world view is plenty good enough to engender meaning, in my opinion. They allow one to live, work, and love in a satisfying way without causing harm to others.

It is not absurd, just reality. It is the nature of the human organism to construct patterns of meaning that enable him or her to function. You should read the psychology of Jean Piaget.

I don't think it IS a "meaningless world."
It may be. It certainly seems that way at times.
But I prefer 'natural law' and 'karma'-based justice.
This prompts one to act morally even if (some) others act immorally, as if there are no consequences.
I think we reap as we sow, are rewarded and punished in THIS life, and ones to come.
Is this true? I don't know.
There's plenty of evidence to indicate it is, but everybody's free to think what they want.
If they DO actually believe life is "absurd," though, they'll be, like you, unhappy and pessimistic. Their choice.
I personally see life as kind of a race between good and bad, optimism and pessimism, with ultimately a good outcome.

When you are agnostic or atheist, or even deist, you don't see any plan, so everything is pointless. If I have no kids, I do not give a twaddle what the red haired buffoon with the nuke codes says or does. I simply do not care about global warming cause I will be dead b4 the worst begins. If someone nukes my city , it literally will be over it b4 my nerve cells can react. Again no pain, no awareness who cares. If I have kids I worry for them, even though I acknowledge the silliness of life and human endeavor.

Excentricity is not appreciated as much anymore....up against a background of bizzare social outpourings it seems almost normal these days

What an absurd idea!

If you're an absurdist, I highly recommend the novels of Samuel Beckett: particularly his trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.

I've had a hard time understanding the term "absurdism" and "nihilism" and still do. To my simple mind, they are patently obvious. What "meaning" do we expect to derive? Like morality, it is a tool that we devise to survive, live, and hopefully prosper.

i enjoy absurdity when it does no harm. i don't see that i have to make a special effort in that regard, though. life can be absurd. i recognize it. i don't need to devote myself to it.

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