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The Meaning of Life
I often ask people on this podcast or at a bar or to imaginary people I talk to in a room when I'm all by myself, the question of the meaning of life. Do you think this is a useful question? No, I think it's like the question, what's north of the North Pole or what time is it on the Sun. It sounds like a question, but it's actually not really a question because it has a presupposition in it that I think is fundamentally flawed. There were times when people thought they had a worldview that legitimated it, like God is running the universe and therefore, and God cares about you and there's a plan, etc. But I