Some things are meaningful, and others aren't. This is obvious; yet most confusions about meaning begin by denying it.

Claims that everything is meaningful, or that nothing is, are motivated by fears: fear of the opposite.

We have a choice of explanations: ones that are simple, clear, harmful, and wrong; or ones that are complex, vague, helpful, and approximately right.

Original text at: https://meaningness.com/meaningfulness-and-meaninglessness

https://meaningness.com/extreme-examples-eternalism-and-nihilism

https://meaningness.com/meaningness-first-explanation

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