Quote: (12-28-2018 12:27 AM)scorpion Wrote:
The weight of this conclusion is so overpowering and oppressive that there are only two ways to deal with it. The first is basically to ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. Denial and distraction. The second is to look outside the material world - which is intrinsically and inevitably doomed by its very physical structure - and seek the Eternal which exists beyond it.
The meaningless of existence has driven many a man to drink, drugs, distractions or even the creation of god to alleviate the emptiness.
I see your second "way to deal" as the same as the first - distraction/denial.
The only authentic way to cope is to accept that on a universal scale you are insignificant, but doesn't mean that your life, local scale existence and experience is without meaning.
In the same way that two days without water will create a meaning of life - to get water, you can find a way to put meaning into your life (but universally meaningless).
Its not easy, and we all slip from time to time, but its the only way forward.