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In a classic body swap scenario, you wake up as a famous philosopher, about to give a grand speech on the meaning of life to thousands of people.

What will you tell them?

My Meaning

“A question like this, first of all, is a walking contradiction. These words are found together more often than not, and yet they don’t coincide. Life, in the simplist terms, is absolute. Is a happening outside of us. Is a thing that cannot be fully comprehendeded without a scientific degree and a dream. A belief that there’s a reason we’re here- and yet. There it is. That idea of meaning. Meaning, in the simplist terms, is a social construct. It’s a thing we attatch to everything- hoping, just hoping that if it’s attached, we can feel better. Being alive, within itself, is such a broad, coincidental, undesirable something- that leaving it alone becomes unsatisfying. If it has a meaning, it has humanity. And while intrinsically being a human being is being alive, it’s not souly reliant on us. Being alive is being everything. And having a meaning just is a selfish need for us. Life- as a concept and an experience has no meaning. Being a human being, though, means everything.”

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