A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning — new Melting Asphalt post http://www.meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-guide-to-meaning/ …
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Replying to @KevinSimler
you contradict yourself: first meaning is a feeling, then it's observable from the outside, ex: Potter, Christ.
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Replying to @cloudhead @KevinSimler
which one is it? If one can be "wrong" about meaning, then it's not a feeling, it's objective—Yet meaning is highly subjective.
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Replying to @cloudhead @KevinSimler
in other words, you don't know if Christ or Frodo had meaningful lives just based on outcome
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Replying to @cloudhead
Right. Don't know for sure if they had (subjectively) meaningful lives. But their lives certainly(?) give us the sense of meaning
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Replying to @KevinSimler
I think it's interesting to think of the case of someone saving the world by accident: was it a meaningful life?
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Replying to @cloudhead
My take: In context C = his own life (from his POV), no. In C = the rest of the world (from our subjective POVs), yes.
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Replying to @KevinSimler
yeah, exactly. But then one has to wonder, are those two meanings of the same "substance"?
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Replying to @cloudhead
Haha, right. For the record: I'm not trying to say, "This is what meaning IS." I'm trying to figure out how people use the word..
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... and whether that concept is useful or a wild goose chase. I've decided the concept (as I see it) is useful, but maybe I'm...
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Replying to @KevinSimler @cloudhead
... not defining it the same way you are (which is fine), or maybe it's not useful to you (for understanding people's choices).
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Replying to @KevinSimler
yeah, makes sense! I think the key thing is that there is the internal and external context, and they're both "correct"
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