Meaninglessness.

[zajac]

As something that we touched on in nightschool, and I, being the only non-pothead there, was one of the 25 kids that actually had something intelectual to say about this...

But here it is... What is 'meaningless' to you? Is there anything that is 'meaningless'? Etc etc...

Many kids said that "horses are meaningless" or "picking up a blade of grass is meaningless"...

This is where I went on the topic, and this is just a summary of what I had touched on...

If you are nice to someone... Nice to someone that is always and constantly mean to you... Say you are Polish and some Nazi hates your guts... No matter how nice you are to that person, their opinion of you will not change no matter what... Being nice to someone that will not change can be meaningless... Doing things in vain is meaningless... What I'm trying to get at is that doing things for certain reasons, having certain motives behind your actions, is what I think the definition of meaningless is... I can't quite explain it that well, but I hope you get my point... Anne Frank is a good example to use... I'm not saying that you shouldn't be nice to people because it is in vain, but that depending on what your motives are, then that is meaningless...

One other kid took this a whole other direction and said that there is no possible definition for 'meaninglessness' and that to come up with a definition for meaninglessness, there in itself is creating meaning for the word. An example that can be used is love. Love is different to many people and can have a different definition to different people. Another side of this is the idea of 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' and that different things can be defined differently depending on the person and the viewpoint. So in this sense, what may seem meaningless to one person, may have a different meaning to another person...

I hope you get what I'm trying to say... What is meaningless to you? Is anything meaningless?

Elaborate.