Existentialism philosophy thread

[Perry]

Existentialism is a philosophy that pertains to the reason for existence and meaning of life. There are four main existentialist categories (they're the most well known and identified in literature)

Theological existentialism

• There is a meaning to life that is given to everybody, but we are tasked with accepting it ourselves
• There's also meaning to the universe, which is a divine power
• You can't create your own meaning, it's been given to you by a divine power

Atheist Existentialism

• There's a meaning to life
• There's no meaning to the universe
• Only we can create meaning of our lives

Absurdist Existentialism

• There's a meaning to life
• There might be a meaning to the universe, but we'll never know so its not worth getting hung up over
• It's not possible to find true meaning in life, but the pursuit of finding meaning is meaningful. In other words, its like going on an adventure to find a fountain of youth, the thing you're looking for doesn't exist, but the journey there was fun and meaningful.

Nihilist Existentialism

• Nothing has purpose. There's no point finding meaning, as nothing has meaning. Everything you do in life is meaningless, from the smallest to largest action you commit to.

Which one are u? Also please don't turn this into a religious argument, be courteous of other people's views and try not to force some ultimatum onto others

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[Red Spy]

Theological existentialism

Nihilist Existentialism

• Nothing has purpose. There's no point finding meaning, as nothing has meaning. Everything you do in life is meaningless, from the smallest to largest action you commit to.

Inb4 chemical reactions

[Insert Name Here²]

Mixture of theological and Aburdist. I align with the first two points of theological, and the last point of aburdist

[TheABELBOTO]

Why male models?

[McJob]

Similar to Insert Name Here, a mixture of Theological and Absurdist. I suggested in another thread that life's big goal is about knowledge and skill, linking in Pattern Theory (the theory behind why we find games "fun").

It's actually something I've been struggling with for the past few months, but I thinks that's just because of a lack of "perceived progress" where I feel I haven't been getting stuff done, which further links me back into my suggestion that we're most happy when we're pushing ourselves towards something we want to achieve.

[Perry]

I believe that meaning can only be achieved by occupying your life with things that you love. When you do something you love to do, you feel in the zone and it makes pleasant memories and gives value to the experience. When you stop doing it, you just get bored and want to do more.

[Red Spy]

I believe that meaning can only be achieved by occupying your life with things that you love. When you do something you love to do, you feel in the zone and it makes pleasant memories and gives value to the experience. When you stop doing it, you just get bored and want to do more.

Is this a metaphor for gangbanging

[Perry]

Is this a metaphor for gangbanging

damn you discovered my ulterior motives! I'm exposed

[SetGaming]

absurdist - i don't cohere to any religious values, but i think that there are much better things to do than contemplate existence. by this i mean it's like trying to solve the collatz conjecture in mathematics - we don't know enough about what defines existence to really do much about it.

[e-maxx]

I guess I'm nihilistic idfk Like I don't really care about this stuff but i think life has whatever meaning you give it.

[Ronin]

Always liked how the Adventure Time crew gave Nihilism its own joke

sorry it's big click :^)

[cooolguy32]

Theological existentialism

• There is a meaning to life that is given to everybody, but we are tasked with accepting it ourselves
• There's also meaning to the universe, which is a divine power

Absurdist Existentialism

• It's not possible to find true meaning in life, but the pursuit of finding meaning is meaningful. In other words, its like going on an adventure to find a fountain of youth, the thing you're looking for doesn't exist, but the journey there was fun and meaningful.

[NotBomberguy]

100% absuridst

[Ipquarx]

atheist and absurdist are pretty similar

[NotBomberguy]

atheist and absurdist are pretty similar

only for one there is no meaning to the universe