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Originally Posted by jewels
You said life has no meaning. By my definition, you do have to have a reason as to why you want that. Does it feel good? Does it make someone happy? Will it look good in your Memoirs? If nothing had meaning, you wouldn't want any of it, would you?
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That's one perfectly valid view.
It's different from the view I'm proposing here.
I'm proposing a view in which people do what they do because that's what they do, and then mostly what we say about it afterward is justification and rationalization, and there really IS no "why".
If nothing has meaning, then I get to say what the meaning/reason is. Very different from looking and finding out the "real" reason that was there before I started looking. But I have to start from, there's no "real" reason, but I DO get to say what I'm here for, and that's not "true" either--that's just me saying something, which is all I'm really doing all the time anyway, I just THINK that's The Truth...