Turns out it’s not illegal to make up your own meaning. It’s not even taxed for some reason.
Not yet
I remember one time at a party, in my early 30s, some guy pops out “isn’t love just a social construct?”. Looked at him for a moment and said, “ok, I guess. And so?” but he didn’t have anywhere to go with it.
It was memorable because we were all like whole ass adults, but he still came off as a 13 year old the whole time.
The idea of romantic love may be a construct, but love itself is not.
Oh, so my limbic system, parts always talking to each other and to other limbic systems, isn’t social enough for you?! My genes, the height of community information transfer, aren’t social enough for you? My nucleic acids being created in the void, as stars, the trees of space, jizz-out matter everywhere and swirl it up in their trillion star sex parties, ain’t social enough for you?!
We got damn electrons, so horned-up they’re just a smear across probability, screaming to get to a proton, all around us, but there’s nothing social about that either, right?!
What’s an electron gonna do without social desire? What’s a single hydrogen gonna do by itself? Gravity, the strong force, they only work together. Nothing is even solid without another particle to observe it. Reality, including love, is a social construct.
We can only do it together.
It is for us to🤝🏽gather.
I would have told him no, I don’t think it is
For real, of all the things to call a social construct, love is a pretty debatable one
OP doesnt know that crushing my belief in meaning with the power of memes is meaningless
Life is meaningless
No it isn’t.
In the grand scheme of things life is meaningless. But in that scheme, meaning is also meaningless. So since both are meaningless they have equivalent meaning. Ergo, life has meaning.
Or to put it another way: because nothing matters, you don’t need anything to matter, so you should just care about the things you feel like caring about. And that gives them meaning.
The meaning of life is to put your peepee into a vajayjay.
Thanks for the philosophy, Captain Jack
I don’t disagree.
But we’re getting really philosophical over a shitpost here.
Humans are meaning-making machines. If you feel like life is meaningless, that’s on you bro. Go make some meaning.
You’re free to give it one. The second someone cares, there’s a reason.
Everything is meaningless. We are all Sisyphus.
We all are sissys?
Now what should we have for lunch?
meaning is subjective :)
I mean, but if you just party all the time sooner than later you’ll be the old single man that people look at weird, cause you’re party mates all decided to contribute to society (hopefully in a good way not a WallStreet parasite way) All things in moderation I guess
that people look at weird
What a low bar, I want mild shock and fainting at least.
Well, I don’t want to go to a party that is meaningless. So there.
Meaning in that sense is an ill-defined term which on careful inspection has no sensical quality. Saying life is or isn’t meaningful is like saying “life is/isn’t blwodjtnfyhc”
Your life may not be blwodjtnfyhc, but my cousin in Poland lives a life that very much is.
