{"id":47197,"date":"2022-06-25T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47197"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:52:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:52:16","slug":"the-real-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/06\/25\/the-real-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The REAL meaning of life."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>YouTube presented a video to me with the title:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The Goal Of Life Is Meaning, Not Happiness.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I thought: haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s so funny to me how the world is full of statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An endless amount of things that people claim to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonchalantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without a doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like they invented this shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you get things like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The meaning of life is that there\u2019s no meaning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The meaning of life is whatever you think it is.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And everything in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the fact is, of course, that nobody knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not even some shriveled 100-year-old Buddhist body in an orange blanket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a book that\u2019s about something that can\u2019t be described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a YouTube video, or a dancing Hawaiian goddess, or a professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or a blog, like this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody knows anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haha, so cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @jareddrice, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube presented a video to me with the title: \u2018The Goal Of Life Is Meaning, Not Happiness.\u2019 And I thought: haha. Sure. Okay. Whatever. It\u2019s so funny to me how the world is full of statements. An endless amount of things that people claim to be true. Nonchalantly. Without a doubt. Like they invented this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[102,97,117,100,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47200,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47197\/revisions\/47200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}