Truth or Comfort?

[The Sum of Awe]

I'll just ask it:


Existentialists: Why are you voting Truth over comfort?

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I'll just ask it:


Existentialists: Why are you voting Truth over comfort?

Ever read Camus? You know books like The Myth of Sisyphus or The Rebel?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

I'll just ask it:


Existentialists: Why are you voting Truth over comfort?

Creating a meaning in life is not denying that there is no objective meaning. It is simply something to do.

 

[Kerr]

I find that this is presented as an either-or quite perplexing. Seems to me those who pick an answer like "truth" are doing so because holding onto this supposed "truth" is a comfort. No human holds beliefs which cause cognitive dissonance (discomfort) for them, at least not over long periods of time. Calling their ideas "truth" is a way of resolving that discomfort with the illusion of certainty. People accept what is "true" because they find it comfortable.

I dont believe in an afterlife and I find that quite discomforting. But I cannot choose to pretend like an afterlife make sense to me, because it doesnt.

 

[Badran]

Both in principle and in terms of what i actually can or can not do, i think that truth would always be the priority. I don't think i actually can take comfort in something that is demonstrably false.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I dont believe in an afterlife and I find that quite discomforting. But I cannot choose to pretend like an afterlife make sense to me, because it doesnt.

Acceptance Of Death

Kübler-Ross model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acceptance can make it much more easier.

 

[Kerr]

Acceptance Of Death

Kübler-Ross model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acceptance can make it much more easier.

I know . I am just not there yet, and I am not going to start believing in an afterlife just for comfort.

 

[Willamena]

If it came down to it, would you rather accept what is true or something that is comfortable? For example, say that all logic and evidence points to there being no afterlife. Will you accept that this life is it (truth) or would you continue telling yourself you will go to paradise after you die (comfort)?

Are you talking about belief? Because belief points to what is true, not what is comfortable. "What you tell yourself" doesn't a belief make.

 

[Willamena]

Existentialists believe comfort is better.

That's because they know the truth.

 

[1137]

I'll just ask it:


Existentialists: Why are you voting Truth over comfort?

Hmmmmmm, no meaning, no order, uncaring universe, complete isolation, complete responsibility for every action... Can you please point out the comfort?

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

Ever read Camus? You know books like The Myth of Sisyphus or The Rebel?

Camus rejected the label of existentialism but most think of him as one. I still see Camus as trying to find a way out. So I am with The Sum of Awe on this one.

 

[1137]

Camus rejected the label of existentialism but most think of him as one. I still see Camus as trying to find a way out. So I am with The Sum of Awe on this one.

Well then I ask you the same thing. What is comforting in accepting that life is meaningless, that we are technically all completely alone, life is absurd, there is no loving force in this uncaring universe, that we are responsible for who we are and for every single thing we do and choice we make? I am really interested to know how you find it comforting.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Hmmmmmm, no meaning, no order, uncaring universe, complete isolation, complete responsibility for every action... Can you please point out the comfort?

complete responsibility for every action...therefore your destiny and the meaning of your life is in your own hands. It's all up to you. That's comforting.

 

[1137]

complete responsibility for every action...therefore your destiny and the meaning of your life is in your own hands. It's all up to you. That's comforting.

Who I am is up to me. Nothing else. That is hardly "all".

 

[Willamena]

Well then I ask you the same thing. What is comforting in accepting that life is meaningless, that we are technically all completely alone, life is absurd, there is no loving force in this uncaring universe, that we are responsible for who we are and for every single thing we do and choice we make? I am really interested to know how you find it comforting.

The capacity and responsibility of free individuals to make themselves “available” to the mystery of their participation in creation, in particular by responding to the appeal of the mystery.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Who I am is up to me. Nothing else. That is hardly "all".

Pretty much what I said. The meaning of your life is in your hands, it's all up to you.

I am on Amazon right now buying you hooked on phonics...want to give me a delivery address?

 

[1137]

The capacity and responsibility of free individuals to make themselves “available” to the mystery of their participation in creation, in particular by responding to the appeal of the mystery.

Care to elaborate?

 

[Willamena]

Care to elaborate?

Pretty much what Cynthia said.

 

[Willamena]

Tear away everything considered "objective reality," and then tear away the mental foundation for "unreal," and you're left with ... Me. And you. And there's the world.

There's comfort in it being there despite us. That there is something rather than nothing.

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

Hmmmmmm, no meaning, no order, uncaring universe, complete isolation, complete responsibility for every action... Can you please point out the comfort?

The comfort is in finding meaning through human free will. They could not live with the nihilism of Nietzsche . Who knows maybe Friedrich's honesty drove him crazy.