
Susan Blackmore - Do we need God to make sense of life?
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Zen Buddhist Way of Dealing With the Meaninglessness of Everything
I've often done this with my students. Let's suppose you become nihilistic. Nothing matters. There's no point in doing that. And we are not creatures who will just not do anything. To me, to go through that process, which I've done in the past a lot, and it's just natural now, is a very positive way of living. But you're not accepting the meaninglessness of it, even by going through those actions that you describe. Because you're acting as if those things are meaningful. Yes, I am. Right.
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