#12: The Problem of Nihilism
Thinking Christianly
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The Four Fundamental Chemical Elements That Make Everything Up
"If our impermanence is a source of our meaninglessness, then if we're going to look for meaning, you'd probably look to the things that are permanent," he says. "He turns his mind away from us and asks, do the elements, which aren't fleeting, do they have meaning? And his answer is that all these processes happen, yet the sea is not full." He concludes that given that our lives are fleeting and vain and empty, there is no purpose.
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