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Originally Posted by zevokes
what the crap does "strawmanning" mean?
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Creating a straw man? Arguing against something that your opponent wasn't actually suggesting?
I know I get accused of that a lot, and I admit I am prone to misunderstanding people all the time but I think people constantly make the same mistakes regarding my own statements and right now I'm not even sure what cardboard is accusing me of suggesting.
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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
Your belief that the ultimate answer is that there is no ultimate answer is self-contradictory, and since the "ultimate answer" is the root of all your thought structures and hence all your behavior, everything you do traces back to a contradiction which means you can only ever be in conflict with your situation. If life is meaningless, as some claim, that doesn't mean that you can make your own meaning, which would imply that life in fact has a plurality of meanings, which would make it profoundly meaningful. What the statement "life is meaningless" means is that any attempt to establish meaning subverts itself. That's incredibly scary. That means that every thing you could possibly do ever will undo itself. That's true meaninglessness. That's not something you get around by saying, well fuck it playing guitar is what will be meaningful for me. It means that the more you get into playing guitar the more you will realize that it's only making you suffer.
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I'm just stating my opinions, I'm not looking forward to battling with you because I'm a mismatched opponent. I have absolutely no academic background on this topic. My views on philosophy are based purely on experience and observation of the world around me. If you start quoting Hume, Kant, Locke or whoever your literary heroes are I'm gonna get lost along the way, because my cultural knowledge doesn't really extend beyond the geeky stuff.
However I don't think this makes your opinion more valid than mine, since I don't really think life can be so easily understood just by reading a lot of textbooks of other people's opinions, I'm not saying that's all you're doing, but we're around the same age, we probably live very different lifestyles hence our different points of view, I just hope you don't think I'm an idiot just because I lack your acquirement of literary knowledge.
And also arguing with me is pointless since I'm only a figment of your imagination.
