Posted: Jun 23, 2011 1:24 pm
inkaStepa wrote:I'm not a troll but...I don't know. Nothing seems important to me because "importance" is just an illusion. This has nothing to do with a god at all I'm definately an atheist and not religious. Your right, It has been a year and I'm still lost...I'll go see someone I guess. Thanks.
Daniel Dennet said it best: "Yes, we have a soul. But it's made of lots of tiny robots."
This applies to the idea of meaning and our giving importance to objects and ideas as well. Yes, 'importance' is not an intrinsic property of anything. But that doesn't change the meaning of it.
We are human. We have these wonderful brains that build up fantastic hierarchies and systems inside our heads. These systems can do amazing things: one of which is the production of a soul- that mote of human existence we hold so dear is REAL. It's just not a magic spirit. Importance and meaning are the same way. Just because something is important to you and you know that that is not "real" importance doesn't make it less important!
You must free yourself from the idea that someone else has to tell you what's important and meaningful. You're more than capable of doing it on your own and that doesn't make it any less meaningful.