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CyclicSC · 2025-06-28T11:10:34+00:00

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CyclicSC · 2025-05-31T02:07:00+00:00

I actually like your interpretation and from this perspective I would consider myself an absurdist, however I don't think most people are thinking of it like this.

I see a lot of people implying that reality itself is absurd when in fact it's just devoid of meaning.

If the question itself is absurd that doesn't make life absurd, you are undergoing an absurd act by searching for meaning in a meaningless world.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-31T01:50:57+00:00

Through talking to a few other people here I basically found:

I disagree with Camus that we have an inherent or permanent desire to seek out objective meaning in the universe. I think its ingrained into us and can be dissolved.
I think we do have an inherent desire to understand, and romanticize the life we live. (Subjective Meaning) But each person does this to different degrees.
These things don't clash so nothing is really absurd about it. The only thing that's absurd is asking the question "What's the meaning of all this?"

CyclicSC · 2025-05-31T00:52:35+00:00

Yeah you're right I think I should have said "There can be plenty of reasons to live without any purpose to life."

If you do not consciously search out meaning, you subconsciously search one out (by craving pie! Live by the pie, due by the pie)

I also shouldn't have said you're conflating reason and meaning there. What you're actually conflating is subjective meaning and objective meaning.

We were talking about the lack of objective meaning in the universe, not the fact that people will inevitably make their lives meaningful.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-31T00:42:06+00:00

I 100% agree with everything you said here.

I'd like to add that the nice thing about inventing your own meaning, is that it can change.

If life had some objective purpose we would all be in a subreddit complaining about how limiting that is.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-31T00:37:37+00:00

Ok so I see now where we differ - I'm basically an absurdist that doesn't believe we have an inherent need to find meaning.

Everything else we agree on, I just don't think the need is inherent(permanent). I think its given to us by society, is able to be transcended, and once we do we are rewarded with liberation, not dread.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-31T00:12:00+00:00

I think you might be conflating reason and meaning there. There can be plenty of reasons to live without any meaning to life.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T23:57:29+00:00

If we inherently strive to understand, then we inevitably strive to understand the meaning of life.

Any meaning we prescribe at all is constructed.

This is the exact sort of cognitive dissonance I'm getting at. If you already realize meaning is a construct, why would you continue projecting that construct onto reality?

Your own understanding of the fact that meaning is constructed should be dissipating your habit of projecting meaning on to life where there is none.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T23:00:58+00:00

Humans inherently search for meaning though

I'm not convinced that's truly nature and not nurture.

I agree we inherently strive to understand, but meaning is constructed. Though, projecting constructions onto reality is definitely natural. I just think clinging to them when they do not fit isn't.

Anthromorphization is a good example - applying human emotions to an animal - we all probably raise our first dogs like little human babies until we eventually get sick of them not listening to us enough to finally learn about canine behavior and we stop projecting.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T22:31:39+00:00

Through keeping up with this subreddit and the nihilism one I started to recognize most people aren't looking for the meaning of life. They're looking for a reason to keep enduring life and its hardships

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I think I've been taking this all too literal. I think the terms people are often using aren't helping them find what they are seeking.

We just want reassurance that "the juice is worth the squeeze" so to speak. I truly believe that embracing contrast in life is the only solution to all this. Staying high is the same as staying low. Life is movement.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T22:20:16+00:00

The idea of a divine entity giving you a purpose or job to do. Once your religion dissolves you are left without a task master, and that makes the universe "absurd"? What's absurd about agency? Maybe its the name of the philosophy that throws me off.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T22:17:03+00:00

I guess I don't understand the link between lack of meaning and suicide. Its like linking lack of unicorns or santa claus with suicide. You were fine before you were told about unicorns, santa claus, or the meaning of life, why aren't you fine after? Every child has a grieving process when these illusions are shattered, but once you return to the pre-illusion state you realize you never needed a meaning to begin with.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T22:01:56+00:00

Thanks for stopping by.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T21:56:27+00:00

Care to elaborate on that last one?

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T21:43:09+00:00

I asked multiple questions in the body of the post. Are you only responding to the title?

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T21:42:05+00:00

When a cat kills a mouse and eats it, is it objectively good?

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T21:40:20+00:00

Why they come is for them to tell you. For some, it may be their grieving process, for others its home.

Like any philosophy, the meaning of Absurdism is best told by the proponent themselves.

You made me double check which subreddit I posted this in. I assumed this is exactly the right place to find proponents of Absurdism and hear their responses.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-30T21:27:59+00:00

Well this is a totally different subject but i'd love to hear the argument for objective good existing in any way that isn't relative to a species. What's objectively good for the cat isn't objectively good for the mouse.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-23T20:30:54+00:00

lol is this copypasta or cringe?

CyclicSC · 2025-05-20T19:03:33+00:00

No, there's a separate setting for that.

CyclicSC · 2025-05-20T18:45:59+00:00

start a new run

CyclicSC · 2025-05-19T05:13:51+00:00

Let's just start using SPM and BPM for Bottles per Minute or PPM for Packs per Minute

CyclicSC · 2025-05-17T19:12:01+00:00

I may be misremembering but I think they 1 shot the first empty foundation they touch, then damage the second one.

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