"If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either...
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
...and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair." Thomas Nagel
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Why does that consideration favor irony over heroism and despair?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MemberOfSpecies
@MemberOfSpecies I think because heroism and despair imply mattering whereas irony doesn't?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing If it doesn't matter that nothing matters, why does it matter if you feel a thing that implies mattering?3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @MemberOfSpecies
@MemberOfSpecies@sarahdoingthing This is recycled Camus, though, and hopelessly last-century.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness moral license to live life as a big joke seems valuable, but I mostly agree (more sympathetic to Nagel than Camus)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Nb aeternitas=eternity. Who gives a kumquat what eternity things? We’re not going to be there fore it.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing this is kernel of blog series I'm putatively writing. ppl systematically confuse directions w/pts @ infity1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing yay!
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