• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 hour ago

    Meaning in that sense is an ill-defined term which on careful inspection has no sensical quality. Saying life is or isn’t meaningful is like saying “life is/isn’t blwodjtnfyhc”

  • MrGeneric@lemmy.today
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    I mean, but if you just party all the time sooner than later you’ll be the old single man that people look at weird, cause you’re party mates all decided to contribute to society (hopefully in a good way not a WallStreet parasite way) All things in moderation I guess

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    I remember one time at a party, in my early 30s, some guy pops out “isn’t love just a social construct?”. Looked at him for a moment and said, “ok, I guess. And so?” but he didn’t have anywhere to go with it.

    It was memorable because we were all like whole ass adults, but he still came off as a 13 year old the whole time.

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        Oh, so my limbic system, parts always talking to each other and to other limbic systems, isn’t social enough for you?! My genes, the height of community information transfer, aren’t social enough for you? My nucleic acids being created in the void, as stars, the trees of space, jizz-out matter everywhere and swirl it up in their trillion star sex parties, ain’t social enough for you?!

        We got damn electrons, so horned-up they’re just a smear across probability, screaming to get to a proton, all around us, but there’s nothing social about that either, right?!

        What’s an electron gonna do without social desire? What’s a single hydrogen gonna do by itself? Gravity, the strong force, they only work together. Nothing is even solid without another particle to observe it. Reality, including love, is a social construct.
        We can only do it together.
        It is for us to🤝🏽gather.

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    9 hours ago

    Turns out it’s not illegal to make up your own meaning. It’s not even taxed for some reason.

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      Humans are meaning-making machines. If you feel like life is meaningless, that’s on you bro. Go make some meaning.

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      6 hours ago

      No it isn’t.

      In the grand scheme of things life is meaningless. But in that scheme, meaning is also meaningless. So since both are meaningless they have equivalent meaning. Ergo, life has meaning.

      Or to put it another way: because nothing matters, you don’t need anything to matter, so you should just care about the things you feel like caring about. And that gives them meaning.