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>life is meaningless
what does this mean, exactly? Do any philosophers hold this position unironically and explain clearly what this means?

>> No.21389773

>>21389772
Anyone who thinks that probably can't read or write, but good luck finding one! :D

>> No.21389775

>>21389772
>Lime Myan?
What's that book mate? Can't make it out.

>> No.21389791

>>21389772
It means there's no instructions baked into life that makes it easy and comfortable and keeps us from asking silly questions.

>> No.21389803

>>21389772
>The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.

Cioran, ANATHEMAS and ADMIRATIONS

>If life’s meaning were explained to us, we probably wouldn’t understand it. To think that a man can find it is absurd. We can live without understanding what the world is or who we are. The important things are the ethical instinct and the intellectual instinct, are they not? The intellectual instinct is the one that makes us search while knowing that we are never going to find the answer.
>I think Lessing said that if God were to declare that in His right hand He had the truth and in his left hand He had the investigation of the truth, Lessing would ask God to open His left hand - he would want God to give him the investigation of the truth, not the truth itself. Of course he would want that, because the investigation permits infinite hypotheses, and the truth is only one, and that does not suit the intellect, because the intellect needs curiosity. In the past, I tried to believe in a personal God, but I do not think I try anymore. I remember in that respect an admirable expression of Bernard Shaw: ”God is in the making.”

Borges

>> No.21389807

>>21389772
It means that life and our existence as humans has no inherent meaning or purpose. For whatever reason, be it religious or evolutionary, many humans tend to struggle with this concept and need some sort of external meaning imposed upon their lives in order to function.

>> No.21389812

>>21389803
Both of these just dance around the question of meaning. What is it? Why aren’t animals concerned with it? If life is meaningless then how COULD life be meaningful? And isn’t life meaningful for some people? Or is it argued that life is somehow objectively meaningless and that subjective meaning is an illusion? But how could it be possibly be objective? All animals desire not to starve. Is this not a source of meaning?

>> No.21389813

>>21389772
>Putting her license in here cellphone case
What a bimbo

>> No.21389815

>>21389807
>It means that life and our existence as humans has no inherent meaning or purpose
What would it mean for the opposite to be the case? What kind of life would that be?

>> No.21389816

>life is meaningless
>discover latinas and bunda
>life has meaning

>> No.21389825

>>21389772
sauce?

>> No.21389826

>>21389812
You wouldn't get it. Everything can't be described in language. Borges is right on the money. Please concentrate on the quote within the context of Cioran.

>> No.21389838

>>21389826
Then you’re saying “life is meaningless” is not precise enough. What is more precise, then? Seeing that one person views life more meaningful than another, shouldn’t our phrase include some subjective element? Example: “MY life is meaningless.” Or..”I don’t know exactly what to do in my life to be happy” etc. There is certainly SOMETHING being communicated here, or at least there is an attempt, but I’m not sure exactly what it is.

>> No.21389976

>>21389816
>”nooo everything is meaningless and there is no reason to do anything at all!”
>*faps*

>> No.21389980

>>21389772
Sex with this

>> No.21389981

>lust provoking image
>irrelevant time wasting question

>> No.21389992

Means that there’s no ultimate goal or consequence to your life. All of your actions will eventually lead to nothing, and you can never truly achieve anything in your life. Therefore, there cannot be any ultimate meaning to your life. That’s the logical conclusion of an after-life-less world.
Trying to create meaning in this situation would be cope, according to nihilists/pessimists. It’s denying the cold reality of a meaningless world, where everything is doomed to die.

>> No.21390004

SAUCE IS MATTI MARONI
REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH WORKS YOU STUPID CUNTS.

>> No.21390006

>>21389992
Even if the universe could somehow exist forever and you could live a relatively similar mode of life for eternity, I bet people like you would still say that such a life is meaningless.
>there is no ultimate goal
So because we have multiple goals each and every day of our lives, some bigger and some smaller, as opposed to one grand goal, life is therefore “meaningless” ? Don’t you see how you could argue that life is virtually MAXIMIZED in this world? If there were only one “purpose” then this would be boring and “meaningless.” Also, your argument falls apart with eternal recurrence, open individualism, etc.

>> No.21390171

>>21390004
>no matches
i don't trust you

>> No.21390174

>>21389772
aaaaaAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.21390193

>>21389772
hmm yes i'm thinkin sexo

>> No.21390202

>>21389772
Life is the nigger of the universe. And meaning is the white of the universe. Do you understand now?

>> No.21390206
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who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing but not so fast and considering what is more that as a result of the labours left unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew and Cunard it is established beyond all doubt all other doubt than that which clings to the labours of men that as a result of the labours unfinished of Testew and Cunard it is established as hereinafter but not so fast for reasons unknown that as a result of the public works of Puncher and Wattmann it is established beyond all doubt that in view of the labours of Fartov and Belcher left unfinished for reasons unknown of Testew and Cunard left unfinished it is established what many deny that man in Possy of Testew and Cunard that man in Essy that man in short that man in brief in spite of the strides of alimentation and defecation is seen to waste and pine waste and pine and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts penicilline and succedanea in a word I resume and concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown to shrink and dwindle in spite of the tennis I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown but time will tell to shrink and dwindle I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead loss per caput since the death of Bishop Berkeley being to the tune of one inch four ounce per caput approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Connemara in a word for reasons unknown no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is more much more grave that in the light of the labours lost of Steinweg and Peterman it appears what is more much more grave that in the light the light the light of the labours lost of Steinweg and Peterman that in the plains in the mountains by the seas by the rivers running water running fire the air is the same and then the earth namely the air and then the earth in the great cold the great dark the air and the earth abode of stones in the great cold alas alas in the year of their Lord six hundred and something

>> No.21390226

>>21390206
so random bro so quirky

>> No.21390233

>>21389772
It's funny that you would post this pic OP because it made me think about reproduction, which is possibly the only true universal meaning to life in the universe

>> No.21390236

>>21390206
Based proto-shitposting Beckett

>> No.21390248

>>21390233
reproduction is only more “meaningful” than other acts insofar as it is more desirable. But it does seem to be the most powerful force within us, especially if you abstain from all sexual activity for a while. I would say that meaning comes from having a will, which includes various types of desires and preferences that we want to satisfy.

>> No.21390372

>>21389772
I didn't know she had nudes lol

>> No.21390449

>>21389772
great body. braindead eyes.

>> No.21390457

>>21390449
the quintessential woman

>> No.21390467

>>21390457
>the quintessential human
ftfy

>> No.21390497

>>21390467
>woman is sex; man is sex and something more
read weininger

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>>21390497
no thanks faggot, i can figure it all out from a single picture

>> No.21390508
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>>21390467

>> No.21390592

>>21389772
sexo with brown women
sexo with mati

>> No.21390696

>>21389772
It means that which could be called unto 'life' is not an end which can guarantee meaning in any accomplishment thereof derived, which only reinforces the statute of meaning. Just like the more you cover up a girl in the right places, the greater the primordiality in your groin rages. It's only when you see her naked that you realized the real rush was WANTING to get, because when you want you necessarily believe that meaning is possible, and not GETTING what you want, for whenever you get what you want, you necessarily render meaninglessness.

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>>21389775
It’s just looks like that because it’s upside down and in a mirror. I think it says The Maya and is possibly this book

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21390771

>>21389772
There is no ontological answer to that question, as the premises requires a subject (that experiences meaning) to experience life.

Life can be life-affirming, or life-negating. Meaning, in this case, can be capsuled within both.
Life-negating living are actions that push you further from living. It is the subjects way to distance oneself from life. Life-affirming living supersede meaning, as to the question is not even asked in any broad capacity. The "meaning" is meaningless; live because you want, not because you need - you don't need anyones permission to live.

>> No.21391036

>>21389772
Anyone who thinks that probably can't read or write.

>> No.21391331

bump

>> No.21391382

>>21390696
>It's only when you see her naked that you realized the real rush was WANTING to get, because when you want you necessarily believe that meaning is possible, and not GETTING what you want, for whenever you get what you want, you necessarily render meaninglessness.
In other words, the will is the meaning of life. Then to make our lives more meaningful, we should make our wills stronger. Things like fasting and celibacy and dopamine detoxing are essential to live the highest life

>> No.21391911

I thought this board was full of nihilists but I don’t see them ITT. I guess they realized defending meaninglessness is meaningless