Recent content by Perfidious Delusion

Yes, philosophically speaking the problem with a position like that is to explain the intrinisc value of suffering. Of course, suffering can have great value in that it leads to other things (instrumental value philosophers call it), but the experience of suffering itself is intuitively of...

Sounds cool man! I'll get back to you after I get a chance to look through my stuff this weekend.

I looking for musicians interested in dissonant extreme metal. My idea is to keep things zany and tongue-in-cheek instead of the pretentious, selfseriousness typical of these sorts of bands. I'm near Wichita, so the chances of me finding musicians in the area hovers stubbornly just above zero...

Bloopy, I'm glad to hear that you worked through a more Camus-esk approach to this issue, and that you settled on an answer that is eddifying. It's not clear to me whether you think experiencing things is intrinsically good, that the act of experiencing gives life meaning by itself, or whether...

I'm a former professional philosopher, current psychologist, and perpetual depressive, so I've thought a fair bit about this. I'll give you a short, relatively firm and disappointing answer (for those hoping for something exotic and sexy) followed by a more measured, longer discussion. I'll also...