Lars

Thanks, Reg!

Thanks, Reg!

People often say that they find satisfying meaning in something greater than themselves.

And yet other people find meaning in a tiny snail shell or they find meaning in never thinking about meaning. Meaning is whatever a human being considers meaningful (a lovely tautology) and there is nothing to stop me applying meaning to anything with the…[Read more]

Natural selection is relative.

What does that even mean? How does that somehow resolve the big conflict of your “thriving” meme between the various definitions of “thriving”? If by thriving all you mean is achieving your goals, you have really warped the meaning of this term far from how most people would consider thriving. If thriving means…[Read more]

A state of physical and psychological health and strength.

That is not thriving, that is living another day, probably a lot more. If you canvass history, how many healthy people of sound mind did unspeakable things. Your definition here is so BROAD it would apply both to those who achieve constructive goals, and those who waste their lives away…[Read more]

What if ones goal is to be a perfect serial killer?

Seriously, using the term ‘thrive’ is like using a blank card that you declare anything you like to be written on it.  It’s a contextual term that doesn’t have specific meaning between contexts.

I’m still waiting to hear why ‘meaning’ has any significance to survival and species prol…[Read more]

”Without meaning, life is meaningless”

Have you found some cosmic source of information which suddenly says “humans are entitled to meaning”? MUST that meaning be inherent? Is it possible that most “meaning” in life is dictated by manipulative religions/ideologies/insanity? Perhaps the greatest meaning of all is what an individual objectively wor…[Read more]

I am sure they also want to thrive.

Simon, your “thriving” meme has sort of morphed into a false dichotomy of either:

1. People are compelled by nature to thrive

2. People are not compelled by nature to thrive.

Things aren’t remotely this black and white. There are thousands of consideration that go into human decisions and life choices and…[Read more]

@simonpaynton

”Without meaning, life is meaningless”

Was this statement worth the font it was written in?  It’s more fun to note that without Ruth, life is ruthless.

I don’t have an award for stating the obvious, but if I did, I’d be awarding it for that one

Thanks for Kiva, Reg. Good website.

Should Director David Lynch have looked for a severely deformed person to play the role of the “elephant man”

LOL. I can only imagine once Earth makes contact with aliens, the outrage they will feel when humans use “animation and special effects or humans in costumes” as opposed to actual alien actors. I would imagine the alien “community” wou…[Read more]

Kara, I have no problem with a hetero guy playing a gay role and I personally don’t know anyone else who does either. I only hear this kind of anger from an online part of the LGTB+ “community”. I often am amazed by how eagerly they present their arguments as representative of the “community as a whole”. I agree that it would be wonderful if LGTB+…[Read more]

@simonpaynton Re meaning or lack thereof.

Who do you want to matter to?  Why do you want to matter? Why do you feel your life ought to have meaning? Where does the desire for meaning come from?

Bloody hell!

Thanks, Reg!  Snowed in, here. Nice to have some quiet reading today. Plow guys nowhere to be seen as 15” snow buries the garden and driveway.