In philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any. In this context absurd does not mean "logically impossible", but rather "humanly impossible". The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd, but rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing simultaneously.

In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe.

In general, there are three ways of practically dealing with the situation.

1.Suicide due to life being ultimately meaningless and therefore either too boring or too painful

2.Embracing a meaning framework such as religion or spirituality

3.Acceptance of the lack of meaning, and living on in spite of it.

The third option is to either construct or adopt a belief structure that provides a practical reprieve from the impossibility of true meaning while never actually rejecting that the system used is itself also meaningless.

Oh how the tune changes.