No cosmic plan
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View ArticleNeither objective nor subjective
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View ArticleNebulosity
“Nebulosity” means “cloud-like-ness.” Meaningness is cloud-like. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down.Nebulosity is the key to understanding confusions about meaningness. That is a central...
View ArticleMisunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable
I was inspired to write this book when I saw many of my friends struggling with the question “what is my true purpose in life?”
View ArticleMeaningness: the complete stance
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View ArticleMeaningfulness and meaninglessness
Some things are meaningful; some are meaningless. Some are vaguely in-between.This is our constant, natural experience in everyday life. It is only in religion, spirituality, and philosophy that people...
View ArticleMeaning and meaninglessness
This book is based on the idea that meaning can be real but nebulous: ambiguous, variable, and context-dependent. This is an uncommon stance.
View ArticleFixation and denial
There are two fundamental ways to try to reject nebulosity: by fixating or denyingmeaningness.
View ArticleExtreme examples, eternalism and nihilism
Why would anyone want to claim that everything is meaningful, or that everything is meaningless, defying our everyday experience that some things are meaningful and some not?Here I’ll give an example...
View ArticleConfused stances come in pairs
Confusedstances are strategies for avoiding accepting nebulosity. Each confused stance applies the basic methods of fixation and denial to different aspects of meaningness.This means that these wrong...
View ArticleCompleting the counterculture war
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View ArticleAt the Mountains of Meaningness
Across centuries and continents, mountains are major sources of meaning—of inspiration and insight—for human beings. Why is that?
View ArticleAdopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, appropriating
A stance is a basic attitude toward meaningness. A stance is a tool for understanding, from which you may act. This pages defines a series of terms that describe ways you can take up such a tool.
View ArticleAccepting nebulosity resolves confusions about meaning
The core of this book is a method for resolving confusions about meaningness.
View ArticleNo middle way
Wrong ideas about meaningness show up as pairs of polarized, opposite stances. These appear to be extreme views. Surely the truth can be found somewhere between?Unfortunately, no. The error underlying...
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