Tag: meaningness
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Sacred space is wherever you make it
Is there anything or anyone you hold as sacred? Unless you subscribe to one of the major religions, there answer is often no. Some people might hold a special reverence for their family, nation, or local football team, but to many it’s not even that. Sacredness has little space in the postmodern world that pulled…
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How to build a castle in clouds – nihilism, existential crisis, and the cycle of meaning
The concept of a midlife crisis was always weird to me. Why wait until you’re middle age to question the choices you’ve made? I’ve had all the symptoms of a midlife crisis at least once a year since I was 25. The cycle seems to have accelerated recently, and now only takes about 3-4 months…
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Lost in a blog rabbit hole
Every now and then I discover a new interesting blog, and then find myself for the next few days (or months…) on a deep dive to reach its very bottom. Rather than read an article or two and bookmark the rest for later like every sane human would do, I keep following cross-links and archive…
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Invest in the question
When you say you deeply care about something, what does it mean actually? Do you care about what you think is the best way to solve the problem? Or do you care about the question that brought you to that belief? The difference is subtle, but of great consequences. If you care about the question,…
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The meaning of dance
what’s the meaning of dance only a very wise head could give birth to such a nonsense why don’t you put it aside for one moment shake your limbs like a madman and let them take you astray who’s left to ask about meaning when all is lost in ecstatic motion
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How much trust do you have in the ground beneath you? – What navigating underwater taught me about navigating through life.
Every once in a while my trust in the ground beneath gets shattered. Something I believed would not be going to happen suddenly happens, and leaves me stumped. I’m in a new situation where my old habits and ways of problem solving no longer work. People change so much I can hardly recognize them. Communities…
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