COGNITIVE DISSONANTICS

The phrase “life is meaningless” was invented at 3 a.m., obviously.

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The phrase life is meaningless has no known date or origin. Ideas about meaninglessness appear in philosophy such as nihilism and absurdism, and in works like Ecclesiastes.

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Nietzsche declared, 'God is dead' to describe the decline of religious authority. Diagnosis, not celebration.Platonism holds that abstract concepts exist independently of our minds. Ideas living rent-free in reality.Philosophy has no final answers because philosophers would lose their jobs.Postmodernism challenges ideas of objective truth and absolute knowledge. Certainty placed on probation.Philosophy is why you can’t just enjoy a sunset without thinking “what is time?”Jean-Paul Sartre believed humans are condemned to be free. Responsibility without escape.See all Cognitive Dissonantics facts →

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