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Some people are blessed with some kind of inherent sense of meaning. Maybe you are one of them.

For others, the absurd dominates if all else is stripped. Myths and spirituality were (and still are) helpful things.

Extreme empiricism and knowledge acquisition in pursuit of omniscience, in my view, is not good for a human on a personal level. Perhaps it's good for society.



Would you elaborate on your last sentence (well, on every sentence, if you have time)? Why is not good?




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