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https://meaningness.com/authority
Authority | Meaningness
A better alternative to the dysfunctional stances of mindlessly opposing authority and mindlessly obeying.
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https://meaningness.com/politics-as-mission
Politics make for mediocre missions | Meaningness
Taking political activism as a personal mission usually messes up your life, and messes up politics too.
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https://meaningness.com/no-cosmic-plan
No cosmic plan | Meaningness
Great confusions about meaningness stem from the mistaken assumption that there must be some sort of eternal ordering principle.
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https://meaningness.com/objectivity-other-varieties
Some other varieties of objectivity | Meaningness
Nihilistic claims about subjectivity, inherent meaning, universal meaning, and scientific objectivity do not hold up.
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https://meaningness.com/nihilism-intellectualization
Nihilistic intellectualization and understanding | Meaningness
When desperate to deny all meanings, we use absurd pseudo-rational, pseudo-scientific, intellectual arguments to justify nihilism.
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https://meaningness.com/counterculture-war
Wreckage: the culture war | Meaningness
The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.
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https://meaningness.com/monism-dualism-and-participation
Unity and diversity | Meaningness
Stances concerning connection and separateness: monism, dualism, and participation.
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https://meaningness.com/misunderstanding-meaningness-makes-many-miserable
Misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable | Meaningness
Mistaken attitudes toward meaning create unnecessary psychological/spiritual/existential suffering.
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https://meaningness.com/eternalist-systems
Eternalist systems | Meaningness
Systems such as religions and political ideologies reinforce eternalism. They dispel doubt by denying nebulosity.
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https://meaningness.com/complete-stance-appeal
The appeal of complete stances | Meaningness
Resolving problems of meaning by recognizing inseparable pattern and nebulosity will improve your life.
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https://meaningness.com/completing-countercultures
Completing the countercultures | Meaningness
At root, the culture war is not about abortion, gay marriage, or marijuana. It is about shared misunderstandings of the nature of meaning.
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https://meaningness.com/no-cosmic-meaning
No cosmic meaning | Meaningness
Intuitions of “cosmic meaning” root in hunger for personal significance, and in encounters with vastness.
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https://meaningness.com/fixation-and-denial
Fixation and denial | Meaningness
Fixation and denial are the two simplest ways of refusing to deal with the nebulosity of meaningness.
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https://meaningness.com/political-left-right-rotated
Rotating politics ninety degrees clockwise | Meaningness
In the 1960s-80s, American politics shifted from economic to sacredness issues. This damaged public discourse, but created a new two-track class system.
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https://meaningness.com/objective-subjective
Rumcake and rainbows | Meaningness
Meaning cannot be either objective or subjective. But meaning does exist: as interaction.
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https://meaningness.com/imposing-fixed-meanings
Imposing fixed meanings | Meaningness
Forcing fixed meanings on experience always eventually results in unpleasant shocks when reality refuses to conform to your pre-determined categories.
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https://meaningness.com/
Table of contents | Meaningness
Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
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https://meaningness.com/monism-dualism-schematic-overview
Schematic overview: unity and diversity | Meaningness
Schematic overview of the stances concerning connection and separateness: monism, dualism, and participation.
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https://meaningness.com/existence-scarlet-leviathan
Non-existence: Scarlet Leviathan | Meaningness
Confusing nebulosity with non-existence is a common, sometimes harmful, source of conceptual confusions.
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https://meaningness.com/dualist-critique-of-monism
The dualist critique of monism | Meaningness
According to dualist gloss eternalism, monism is wrong because it falsely claims that it is possible to achieve union with God.
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https://meaningness.com/what-is-meaningness
What is meaningness? | Meaningness
Meaningness is the quality of being meaningful or meaningless.
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https://meaningness.com/faith
Faith | Meaningness
Privileging faith over experience is an eternalist ploy for blinding yourself to signs of nebulosity.
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https://meaningness.com/meaningness
The complete stance | Meaningness
Meaning is nebulous, yet patterned; meaningfulness and meaninglessness intermingle. Recognizing this frees us from metaphysical delusions.
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https://meaningness.com/thought-suppression
Thought suppression | Meaningness
Thought suppression is a ploy for maintaining faith in non-existent meanings. It leads to deliberate stupidity, inability to express oneself, and inaction.
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https://meaningness.com/antidotes-fixating-mundane-purposes
Antidotes to fixating mundane purposes | Meaningness
Ways to find freedom from the compulsive need-driven quality of mundane desires, and enjoyment free from grasping.
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https://meaningness.com/after-eternalism
Exiting eternalism | Meaningness
Learning skills for escaping the grip of eternalism—the delusion that everything is meaningful.
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