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#241

Size =/= Significance.

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#242

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#243

Much wisdom, much grief
the more knowledge, the more sorrow

#244

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#245

Hmm

#246

Seriously read Ecclesiastes, you’ll love it

#247

It’s a guy saying the universe is meaningless over and over again.

#248

We just need a snap

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#249

Yes, but then you will die and eventually be forgotton. Meaning has its limits here.

And thus, meaning has done you no good at all in the long run

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#250

by the way this entire conversation was only continued because I wanted to make a Thanos joke.

#251

oh snap

#252

That has a lot of meaning

#253

Even Nietzsche could come up with a coherent counterargument to this.

#254

I thought you looked up to Nietzche :thinking:

#255

How can universe be meaningless when part of it is meaningful

#256

Sure, Nietzche’s idea of Eternal Recurrence is self-evidently nonsense, but it provides a potential way to provide meaning when all that exists is your own limited existence.

@Marcus_Doodalee do I talk like somebody who looks up to a Nazi?

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#257

The key words are in bold.

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#258

Yes

#259

Ssh

#260

Of course, it’s entirely possible that Hegel was right and all of our ideas are P U N Y compared with his absolute idea.