Feb 28, 2021
Fixation and denial are the two simplest ways of refusing to deal with the nebulosity of meaningness.
https://meaningness.com/fixation-and-denial
Wrong ideas about meaning come in mirror-image pairs, which fixate and deny opposite aspects of reality.
https://meaningness.com/confused-stances-come-in-pairs
Polarized pairs...
Feb 21, 2021
Meaningness is cloud-like: nebulous. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down.
Original text is here:
https://meaningness.com/nebulosity
Brains automatically find meaning and pattern; we need them to act. Unfortunately, brains also find meaning and pattern where there are none.
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Feb 15, 2021
People think they approach meaning in terms of religions or philosophies, but in practice, "stances" matter more.
Original text is here:
https://meaningness.com/stances-trump-systems
Stances—responses to meaning—are unstable thought-patterns. Often we adopt several contradictory ones in rapid succession.
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Feb 7, 2021
Mistaken attitudes toward meaning create unnecessary psychological/spiritual/existential suffering.
Original text is here:
https://meaningness.com/misunderstanding-meaningness-makes-many-miserable
Original music by Kevin MacLeod.
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