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Abraham Saikley - Meaning, Purpose, & Joy

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Galleries Journal Mentoring Print Store About Meaning, Purpose, & Joy September 28, 2023 What is the meaning of life? I think it is all too easy to search for meaning in our lives in a slightly misguided way, not find anything terribly satisfying, become discouraged and potentially quite depressed, and then busy ourselves with all manner of things in attempt to ignore the nagging sense that something is missing or not quite right. Maybe we will latch onto some proxy for meaning or hop between various such proxies, especially those with pseudo-philosophies behind them that seem to hold water in the absence of real examination. But none of this ever really works very well, does it? No matter how entrenched we may become in one proxy for meaning or another, some part of us still knows when we are bullshitting ourselves. Here I will first argue that the search for meaning is bound to fail if approaching it purely intellectually, and then offer the best solution I know of, which based o

Abraham Saikley - Meaning, Purpose, & Joy Meaning, Purpose, & Joy September 28, 2023 What is the meaning of life? I think it is all too easy to search for meaning in our lives in a slightly misguided way, not find anything terribly satisfying, become discouraged and potentially quite depressed, and then busy ourselves with all manner of things in attempt to ignore the nagging sense that something is missing or not quite right. Maybe we will latch onto some proxy for meaning or hop between various such proxies, especially those with pseudo-philosophies behind them that seem to hold water in the

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