Philosophy

Life is all meaning, and if something is happening beyond the veil of our attention it will have as much meaning as it affects our lives or life.

If we die, all meaning dies with us. It is easy to imagine some of the mighty cosmic events happening beyond our consciousness, but do they have meaning? The only meaning they can have is the possibility of some how affecting our existence. So, meaning is life, and life is the meaning of all meanings. And if you die, as you die, meaning dies with you. And even the question of cosmic event, are they real, will have no meaning.

Will see if I can phrase it another way: Life is meaning, which means being is meaning. With our all meaning lives; if we encounter something large, small, loud or soft the question is never so much what it is, but what it means. If it affects our lives little, we may say it has no meaning, but when our own lives end we have in every sense, physically and psychologically lost the sense of meaning, so that both being and meaning have left us.

Then, wait. When the world comes to an end, and darkness settles like snowflakes, one person is left alive, alone. What is his meaning? What is the meaning of all about him? We do not take the actual being of life to look after and share with others. If something we experience has meaning, that meaning we share; and what for the one with no one to share meaning with. Is he not in fact dead too, and without meaning since even meaning is meaningless?

A few years back some flunkfailure of a human shot up a mall and then killed himself. He left a note saying: now I will be famous. No; now you will be dead, and so deprived of meaning. People will remember for a long time the pain you caused, but you are dead and meaningless because you are no threat, and without threat or promise you have no meaning.

Sweeney