The ending of GoT abandons tons of plot threads, making many meanings unclear. Ex #1: Arya learns how to change faces. Sweet! She never uses this ability in Season 8, against the Night King, or Cersei, or Daenerys. So what did it mean? Nothing?
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There is a beautiful kind of freedom that opens up in this environment. It becomes reductive to talk about "the" meaning of anything that happens in the story. There is a multiverse of meaning, represented in fan theories, fanfiction, headcanons, etc.
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IOW this whole thread was about
@Meaningness all along! "Meaningness is an interactional dynamic that arises between oneself and one's situation. ... The only kind that exists is nebulous: ambiguous, fluctuating, uncertain; like a dance, not like a statue."Show this thread -
"That might seem unsatisfactory at first. However, once you accept that meaning is like that, you can see that it's actually much better than the hypothetical solid kind of meaning. It provides freedom and creativity and exploration and lightness, where the given-by-God...
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... kind of meaning would be restrictive, dull, heavy, boring, and inescapable. If the universe had inherent meaning we would all be living in a totalitarian prison." From:https://meaningness.com/neither-objective-nor-subjective …
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