You may come to realize that no mundane facts, no matter how extreme, could actually make you special; they’re just contingent. What you need is transcendent, metaphysical specialness. You need to be Chosen by the Cosmic Plan.
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Tangential aside: a term I learnt from Neil Postman is "transcendental narrative", meaning (my interpretation) a story sufficiently powerful is it is possible to attach a life meaning, certainly individually, and perhaps even collectively.
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That’s a great term! Cf also Lyotard’s “grand metanarratives” (maybe not quite the same). That we can no longer properly believe in these is both the crisis and the opportunity of the current era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative …pic.twitter.com/rfCUDRaz7x
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Interesting/odd to me that you claim both 1 "the Cosmos is divine, metaphysical" and 2 "there is no Cosmic Plan". If 1 is true then how could you know 2?
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Important to distinguish the factual and mythic modes of meaning here. The Cosmos does not exist factually. Factually, what exist are shoelaces, giraffes, neutrons, and things like that.
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