“Rationally, looking at your life in cosmic perspective, you realize everything is meaningless.” Excellent rebutal: http://sci-hub.cc/http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00048402.2010.527354# …
then from that imagined standpoint everything is meaningless. But things don’t actually get smaller when you move away from them,
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and things don’t actually get less meaningful either. More interesting question is why anyone would want to do this exercise…
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answer seems to be: because it seems to force an eternalist/nihilist choice, and advocates of each want that.
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Seeing how the world is meaningless is a spiritual practice, like the charnel ground. Just don't get stuck on it as the only valid practice.
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Well… it’s not the case that everything is REALLY meaningless, but we should pretend it’s meaningful.
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