Is the true meaning of life the battle you fight everyday against the meaninglessness of it all?

Question

Once you have realised that all values are empty. Once you see God is truely dead. There is no absolute path to follow.

I struggle with this notion, that whether I'm here or not, it would not matter much. Is then the way to live life to the fullest battling this notion? And striving to put meaning into something meaningless?
To create a new world? How would one continue to fuel such a fight?

Help??

Answer 1

Sartre felt that way - but a lot of people don't see it his way (and I think he was more than a bit tetched).



Judging from the world-view you have internalized, it will be a slow and painful process requiring developing a totally new way of looking at yourself and the world. Hopefully you can do this.



Shi Tzu has it right. I hope, for your sake, you "get it" long before you are 70.



Added later:

My point is that your premise that life is meaningless is flawed - and undoing this flawed point of view will mean altering the entire world-view that you've internalized; not an easy undertaking. Having to "fight" to fool yourself, in a sense, that there is meaning is unneccessary and is a paradigm that you have created (or, more accurately, that you've internalized from the current modern philosophical views which are at least as flawed as any classical pre-modern philosophy, if not more so in my view).

Answer 2

No. The TRUE "Meaning of Life"- is what "meaning" YOU Create out of it. After-all; We each have the Time, the Tools, & (hopefully) the Brains- to MAKE Something out of the Life & World We're born Into. The only "fighting" that's involved- occurs when We have to Overcome the Fears, Doubts and Insecurities Within Us, -to MAKE Something of Ourselves. The REST- is up to us. :)

Answer 3

The world is meaningless. But that's not to say that it has no meaning. Instead, what I mean by "meaningless" is it has infinite potential for meaning. So there's is no "true" meaning of life.



If you use my above definition of meaningless, then I'd say your quote of "striving to put meaning into something meaningless?" is pretty accurate.

Answer 4

Of course not.



The fact that there is no inhumanly cruel Sky Bully doesn't mean there are no values, or life is meaningless. It means YOU can chose your OWN meaning.



For instance, a LOT of people devote themselves to preventing and alleviating needless suffering -- that is where they find meaning.



YOU could join them.

Answer 5

Man are you a downer. You'll probably 'get it' by the time you are 70, but then it will be too late to act on it.