Seriously bright light vs. winter blahs
Most SAD light therapy lamps are not bright enough. How to get brighter light than any you can buy!
Meaningness
Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning: self, society, ethics, purpose, and value
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Seriously bright indoor lights for seasonal affective disorder, or just the winter blahs
Natural misunderstandings of adult stage theory
Clarifying common misinterpretations of adult developmental theory
The collapse of rational certainty
Modernity was built on certainty in science and mathematics. That was revealed as delusional during the early 20th century.
No meaning of life as a whole
Misunderstanding “a life” as an object leads to the complaint that, although meanings exist, life is meaningless overall.
No meaning without justification
The rationalist theory of justified action leads to nihilism. Understand your activity as a vivid, variegated landscape instead.
Some other varieties of objectivity
Nihilistic claims about subjectivity, inherent meaning, universal meaning, and scientific objectivity do not hold up.
No objective meaning
While the meaning of “objective” is nebulous, learning to relate to meaningness more objectively is possible and worthwhile.
No meaning without proof
A stubborn nihilist can always just refuse to admit that anything is meaningful.
Vaster than ideology
When you discover you are owned by an ideology, you can escape. Better, you can become a larger space.
No cosmic meaning
Intuitions of “cosmic meaning” root in hunger for personal significance, and in encounters with vastness.
No meaning from the Big Bang
Everything was meaningless at the moment of the Big Bang. What could add meaning after that?
Lite nihilism, on the way to completion
Lite nihilism includes a valuable, accurate analysis of the failure of eternalism.
No eternal meaning
Meanings come and go; they are not eternally stable—and that is fine.
No meaning for mortals
Your future death does not make your present meaningless.
Nihilistic reasoning errors
The many justifications for nihilism rely on a handful of mistaken patterns of reasoning.
Sexy cynicism and nihilist elitism
Recognizing meaninglessness requires unusual intelligence, courage, and toughness. Nihilist elitism renders you stupid, cowardly, and helpless, though.
The nihilist apocalypse
A world of total license: the catastrophe some fear if nihilistic views become widespread.
Nihilism is black magic
Nihilism has a taboo allure of forbidden power—because everyone knows eternalism is wrong.
“Nihilism is OK” is not OK
“Nihilism is inevitable, but not a problem.” This is mistaken: it makes you miserable and ineffective, and erodes social and cultural capacity.