How do you all deal with meaning in life? What experiences or reasoning lead you to your choice and how has/does it affect(ed) your life?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Are we talking about meta-ethics?
Sarahroo29
Level 8
May 7, 2018
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Probably... I'm not sure continental philosophy is so strict in labeling this at all metaethics because it's probably got its own category in existensialism but in terms of analytic, yeah except we'll have to take a different approach to the question and consider what it means to have meaning in life and put definitions and terms in their places.
@EliRodriguez11 I learned that this question is under the category of meta-ethics.
@EliRodriguez11 I posted about existentialism a month or two ago.
@Sarahroo29 If you have a source of some sort, I'd like to learn whatever you've learned about this. Thanks!
@Sarahroo29 also; "Philosophy" Group is a group for philosophy
Edit: sorry, the link didn't work. I meant "Songwriting "
@EliRodriguez11 Crash Course Philosophy on YouTube.
@Sarahroo29 Idk why the link isn't working, I'm trying to link you to the group I made, just search up philosophy on the group tabs
Edit: of to up
@EliRodriguez11 Okay.
Before the agricultural revolution 10KBC no one suffered for lack of meaning. Survival provided all the meaning we needed. Then we invented overabundance. Now our needs are met by doing repetitive tasks that alienate us from our natural interests, and the resultant abundance causes us to lose awareness of our natural needs. Go without eating for two weeks or without breathing for two minutes and you’ll find that the problem of insufficient meaning is no longer on your mind. Commit to hunting/gathering all the food you consume for a year and watch the meaning flood back into your life. Our sense of meaning has been swamped by artificial abundance. This is probably why many ancient “meaning traditions” encouraged embracing poverty. Modern, Western meaning traditions encourage the opposite.
skado
Level 9
May 7, 2018
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Well said my friend.
I understand exactly what you mean, but the suspension of considering meaning does not provide one nor does it refute the idea of there existing one. Thanks for the background and insight into the origins of the contemplation of meaning though! Very interesting. I'd like a source or something similar for my own learning if you could provide one. Thanks again.
@EliRodriguez11
These ideas are not directly sourced but just my impressions from diverse readings and ponderings. I'm not aware of any evidence of any universal, transcendent meaning as such, but I do suspect we wouldn't be so hungry for one if we hadn't become so successful at providing for our own comfort. I guess I'm saying we made up the idea of meaning, and now we feel we have to live up to it. We might be better off to let go of our artificial concept of meaning and just rest in the observable reality of our evolved nature.
@skado Perfectly the answer I was looking for. Deeper than the manufacturing of a purpose, and an instruction for what to do once you've scrapped that desire. I've written about this in journals, but as I've mentioned in my bio, I'm no expert. Just an amateur philosopher. Thanks for the time and insight you've put forth.
@EliRodriguez11
Thank you for engaging in discussion with me.
@skado also "Philosophy" Group is a philosophy group
@EliRodriguez11
Thanks. Looking forward to participating.
For me, part of life is discovering what you love to do, or what you are especially good at, and pairing that with what you notice is lacking in the world, or your community, and setting about using something of yourself toward filling that need.
Julie808
Level 8
May 7, 2018
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That is so VERY True!
Surfpirate
Level 9
May 7, 2018
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? lol
I think you have to decide what kind of meaning you want your life to have. I chose to raise amazing kids and create things, and do the best I could with the resources I had.
HippieChick58
Level 9
May 7, 2018
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There is no meaning inherent in the universe, so you have to make your own. But I couldn't vote for 2 things, so I voted create/discover it.
Tomfoolery33
Level 9
May 7, 2018
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Meaning can fluctuate, grow, dissipate... You have to nurture it like a plant.
Ellatynemouth
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May 7, 2018
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