“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# …
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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The imaginary distant standpoint undercuts the obviously correct alternative both eternalists and nihilists want to deny.
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