Matt Fradd

The question is, is it true?

Now, sometimes the mood that you're in, the personality type that you have,

the experiences that you've been going through may make it easier or harder to recognize and embrace the truth.

But we all have this drive that we ought to have.

It is a good thing.

It is the most distinctive thing about us human beings to know the truth, the truth of things in general, especially the truth about God.

Does my life have any meaning?

What it is.

To just give it up

is nuts.

The philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote a very famous article about absurdity in which he said something similar to what the young lady was saying, in which he said that you don't have to despair if you realize that everything is meaningless.

You can just take an ironic view of life, which enables you to get through it.

Well, if life is absurd, getting through it is meaningless too, isn't it?

There must be some meaning there, or he wouldn't prefer getting through it with maybe some nobility or something instead of just despairing.

So if there can be one meaning, why couldn't there be others?

Why not look for what those others are?

And then you've thrown the absurdity away.

I tried to read Camus and I remember I was much younger and I was trying to figure out what the heck is he talking about?

And I understand now what he was talking about, but no, he wasn't a big influence on me then.

When I was in my own Nietzschean phase, I was very enamored of perspectivism.