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A comment on We Are All Confident Idiots (2014). Parent comment

Re:We Are All Confident Idiots (2014) by bookofjoe on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:28AM (#21135635)
"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't exist."—Jacques Lacan

Generalizable to: Life has no meaning, but we can give it a meaning.

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Re:We Are All Confident Idiots (2014) by bookofjoe on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:35AM (#21225373)
Also: "Divorce is taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love."—Zadie Smith
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Re:We Are All Confident Idiots (2014) by mapcars on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:07AM (#21135970)
With this I agree, the problem comes when we forget we give meaning and we become too serious about something we made up.
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