Tag Archives: #meaning

Killer

There is a quote, possibly from Kinky Friedman but usually misattributed to the barstool poet Charles Bukowski, that says, “Find something you love and let it kill you.”

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Wager

Rereading Frankl got me thinking about the the possibility that life may have meaning which is simply beyond my comprehension.   I modified Pascal’s wager to clarify my thinking. To Be Not to Be Meaningless 0 0 Meaningful +x -x If … Continue reading

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Interesting

In Mandarin, 意思 (yìsi) means “meaning.”  有意思 (yǒuyìsi) means “interesting” or “significant” but literally means “has meaning.”

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Logotherapy

Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychologist who survived the Nazi concentration camps.  His book Man’s Search for Meaning is partly a memoir of his time in the camps and partly an overview of his “Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy” called … Continue reading

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Harmonic

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Unhelpful

I found this cryptic marking at the edge of a path in a park in Berkeley.  I can’t help imagining the person painting it thinking to themselves, “The person who sees this will know exactly what it means.”

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