Matt Arnold @matt@penguicon.social

On the second part of this episode: Some other varieties of objectivity

Nihilistic claims about subjectivity, inherent meaning, universal meaning, and scientific objectivity do not hold up.

https://meaningness.com/objectivity-other-varieties

On the first part of this episode: No objective meaning

While the meaning of “objective” is nebulous, learning to relate to meaningness more objectively is possible and worthwhile.

https://meaningness.com/no-objective-meaning

On this episode of the Fluidity #audibook #podcast: The Varieties Of Special Meaning Part 5 - Objectivity

We pick up where we left off in the Nihilism chapter of the book "Meaningness", with additional pages written by the author during the narration of "Meaningness And Time".

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/varieties-of-special-meaning-part-5-objectivity

Matt Arnold's blog: The Mandalorian And Pretending To Believe https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/404060.html

Fortress eternalism: In the face of undeserved suffering, is difficult not to fall into the stance that most things are God’s will, but not the horrible bits.

https://meaningness.com/fortress-eternalism

Purification: An obsessive focus for dualist eternalism mobilizes emotions of disgust, guilt, shame, and self-righteous anger.

https://meaningness.com/purity

Rehearsing the horrors of nihilism: Reminding yourself and others of how bad nihilism is can help maintain the eternalist stance. This is the hellfire and brimstone of eternalist preaching.

https://meaningness.com/rehearsing-nihilist-horror

Mystification: Using thoughts as a weapon against authentic thinking, to create glib, bogus metaphysical explanations that sweep meaninglessness under the rug.

https://meaningness.com/mystification

Faithful bafflement: Maintaining the eternalist stance that remains committed but begins to doubt.

https://meaningness.com/faithful-bafflement

Wistful certainty: The thought that there must exist whatever it takes to make eternalism seem to work.

https://meaningness.com/wistful-certainty

Bargaining and recommitment: When eternalism lets you down, you are tempted to make a bargain with it. Eternalism will behave itself better, and in return you renew your faith in it.

https://meaningness.com/recommitment

Thought suppression: Maintaining faith in non-existent meanings. It leads to deliberate stupidity, inability to express oneself, and inaction.

https://meaningness.com/thought-suppression

Faith: Privileging faith over experience is an eternalist ploy for blinding yourself to signs of nebulosity.

https://meaningness.com/faith

Armed & armored eternalism: When nebulosity becomes obvious, eternalism fails to fit reality. You can armor yourself against evidence, and arm yourself to destroy it.

https://meaningness.com/armed-eternalism

Kitsch and naïveté: The denial of the possibility of meaninglessness leads to willfully idiotic sentimentality.

https://meaningness.com/kitsch

Hiding from nebulosity: Physically avoiding ambiguous situations and information.

https://meaningness.com/hiding-from-nebulosity

Colluding for eternalism: Because eternalist delusion is so desirable, we collude to maintain it. To save each other from nihilism, we support each other in not-seeing nebulosity.

https://meaningness.com/collusion

Pretending: Eternalist religions and political systems are always partly make-believe, like children playing at being pirates.

https://meaningness.com/pretending

Hope: Hope is harmful in devaluing the present and shifting attention to imaginary futures that may never exist.

https://meaningness.com/hope