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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Feb 2019
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      Importantly true! Also importantly true: the world doesn’t make sense, and never can. This is a source of enjoyable wonderment and awe (as well as terrifying dangers).https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1092150947416031233 …

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      The world makes sense. This is why we can have nice things.
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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Feb 2019
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      Because the world does partly make sense; because we can enjoy it and improve it (as well as suffering and risking catastrophe); because genuine meanings are everywhere (despite being nebulous and so not reliably delivering on the promises eternalistic systems made for them).

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Feb 2019
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      Yes... the path of out nihilism, paradoxically, involves letting go of wishing that eternalism could somehow theoretically deliver on its promises. Then you can ask "is this universe good enough?" realistically, instead of by comparison with an ideal one.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Feb 2019
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      The answer could be "no"; some lives may be genuinely worse than nothing. But generally I think serious investigation dissolves the question. Without eternalism as a foil, there's no standard of "good enough" to compare against.

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      Hmm… I super hesitate to ask/suggest, but… have you been introduced to vajrayana form practices such as yidam or tsa lung? These point the way out of nihilism into delighting in reality-as-it-is. Where as sutric meditation points toward emptiness, which can tend to nihilism.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Feb 2019
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          Thank you! It might help to know that I’m not constitutionally cheery at all. I’m prone to depression. I complain a lot. But it’s also true that I enjoy life a lot. And that’s a choice, an attitude, a practice of view. I wrote this on yidam:https://vividness.live/2017/02/09/yidams-a-godless-approach-naturally/ …

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        1. Durchlass Kilometer 5,698‏ @emareaf 3 Feb 2019
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          Ouch, @doc_togden's love of puns has forever cursed me to read tsa lung as Zahlung.

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