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I've finished my existentialist angst. What next, peoplekins?
The universe is so big and I'm so small.
We don't know why we're here.
One day we'll die.
Life is pointless and brief.
*meditates*
*produces big cheesy grin*
Okay, then, well that was fun. I thought this existentialist stuff was supposed to be depressing, but I'm still popping like a breakdancing bunny rabbit on coke.
Is there anything else I should wrap my furry head around?
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- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Well let me play Deities prosecutor...or devils advocate or whatever is suitable in the case and offer this skeptical criticism as proxy for Agrippa.
It is not possible that you have achieved as you have claimed as it is the case with knowledge that.
A - If you have done as you claimed that knowledge was justified by reference to some other knowledge, which was justified by reference to some other knowledge, etc. ad infinitum.
B - Or if you have done as you claim then the knowledge that you have done so is referenced to some other knowledge, which then in turn is justified by redirecting back to the previously mentioned knowledge to form a closed circular loop.
C - Or the knowledge you claim to have is certified by contingent upon reference knowledge other than that specified until some finite point, but that termination is inexplicable is justified by allusion to general accepted assumption.
More popularly refereed to as the Munchhausen trilemma
Or...if you like.
I mean if you bored with the existential kiddy pool maybe some Camus is in order.
I personally do not necessarily consent existientialism conclusions.
I am a metaphysical monist already without existentialism...and while I will concede mereological censorship I find absurdism and nihilism to be too irrationally self refuting to be anything more than... philosophically fashionable, and with little or nothing to offer by way of the philosophically practical.
I would critique absurdism in particular as being the indecisive brand that satisfies the closet subjective idealist.
Further that they should come out of the closet and simply own up to this metaphysical position so that further debate can be raised.
Lingering the ambiguity of absurdism is a rather coy ploy if that is indeed the decoy!
- No MoreLv 78 years ago
You're here to live and do the best job of it that you can.
What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Those are two things I don't give much thought to.. I just get on with living life and everything I do, all the people I meet.. that is reason enough to be here.
Do you ever wonder if people examine things TOO much? When you're given a gift, do you question the person giving it and ask why you deserved it.. why they gave it to you... what it's purpose will be? I don't.. and I don't question the gift of life either.
- BrodesLv 58 years ago
I believe the next step is to determine whether or not an objective reality exists or if you're just a brain in a vat somewhere
- 8 years ago
Life is what you make out of it. It is really up to you to create meaning in your life. And once your life has found a way to impact others can you really exist and live beyond your years.
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- 8 years ago
No matter how small or inconsequential you might seem, you are the ONLY you that will ever be.
And therefore you are as valuable as an entire universe.
Source(s): (((Fur))) - ra†iaLv 78 years ago