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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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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Replying to @hopeoverfear14
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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Replying to @Meaningness @hopeoverfear14
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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No.i’ll look into that, thanks . I’m an emptiness kinda person! I’m not unhappy as such and meditation is great, just that ultimately we’re just managing disaster and surprised you’re so positive but mea culpa for not reading your thoughts in more detail! You’re a great thinker.
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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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Replying to @Meaningness
Again. Appreciate your time. Your demeanour doesn’t seem depressive at all,but I’m too prone to that and more likely to listen to ,in my mind, realists like yourself. Loved you on deconstructing yourself- would be great if you had a podcast of your ideas!
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