Is there a meaning to life?
Answer: if there is no meaning to life, then the question "Is there meaning?" can have no meaning.
If the question does have meaning, however, then clearly, there is meaning to life, since there is meaning in the question, "Is there meaning?"
The answer is in the question: it is that the question "Is there a meaning to life?" is either meaningless, or it answers itself.
In either case, the question is 100% redundant.
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(Un)fortunately, the human being can question the whole, but only live a part.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYnN3LFoe8U
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
doctor and saint, and heard great argument
About it and about; but evermore
Came out by the same door as in I went.
-- Omar Khayyam
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JXM6D1o1rI
Brassier is strongly critical of much of contemporary philosophy for what he regards as its attempt "to stave off the 'threat' of nihilism by safeguarding the experience of meaning — characterized as the defining feature of human existence — from the Enlightenment logic of disenchantment". According to Brassier, this tendency is exemplified above all by philosophers strongly influenced by Heidegger and Wittgenstein. Unlike more mainstream philosophers such as John McDowell, who would press philosophy into service in an attempt to bring about a "re-enchantment of the world", Brassier's work aims to "push nihilism to its ultimate conclusion".
Brassier is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Brassier
Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the "threat" of nihilism by safeguarding the experience of meaning--characterized as the defining feature of human existence--from the Enlightenment logic of disenchantment, this book attempts to push nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by forging a link between revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy and anti-phenomenological realism in recent French philosophy. Contrary to an emerging "post-analytic" consensus which would bridge the analytic-continental divide by uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against the twin perils of scientism and skepticism, this book short-circuits both traditions by plugging eliminative materialism directly into speculative realism.
http://www.amazon.com/Nihil-Unbound-Enlightenment-Ray-Brassier/dp/0230522041
and here was me thinking i had brought centuries of debate to its final and inevitable conclusion.
http://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/ray-brassier-nihil-unbound-enlightenment-and-extinction.pdf
I don't understand you, meaning of life - is - I adore you Jasun. Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuute
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