For me to understand absurdity I need to believe that there's a 'normal' I subscribe to, and aberration from this normal is likely to be an absurdity especially if it 'rubs me the wrong way'.

In such a case, the motivation of other groups of people become inaccessible. I must invent new words like 'terrorist' or 'infidel' to adjust my sight of the 'absurd'.

Very well.

I present to you a “normal” that is male circumcision among the Luo community. This community, their women included, hold the belief that they prefer their men “whole”. That is, uncircumcised.

To them, it is not “normal” to circumcise their boys/youth/men. It is an “absurdity” to circumcise their boys/youth/men. Having sex with such a circumcised boy/youth/man was “rubbing someone the wrong way” so to speak.

Out in the U S of fn A, a Lab Rat designs a virus that gets named Human Immuno Virus and sets it loose among the Gay community of San Francisco.

With no time, its product, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has jumped from the Gay community into “normally” sexually oriented people. It starts killing with reckless abandon. For a long time, it was acknowledged that getting HIV was a death sentence.

This death reap spread all over the world including among the Luo community.

Then someone came up with findings that a circumcised boy/youth/man has reduced chances of acquiring Human Immuno Virus during sexual intercourse.

Suddenly, having sex with a circumcised Luo boy/youth/man is no longer an absurdity to contemplate. Circumcising them is no longer an absurdity. Tradition gets thrown out of the “hot bed.” An American Lab Rat has made an "absurdity" a reality.

Did I understand your understanding of “absurdity”, your subscription of “normal”, possible aberration from such a “normal” and its absurdity “rubbing you the wrong way” correctly with my analogy hereto?

Play do tell.

Relativity. Meaningless.



Introduction: The dictatorship of relativism

That's the point.

There is no easily discernible "evidence" and there is also no "evidence" to show that the "evidence" is admissible to be "evidence" in the search for meaning.

That is using meaning in the search for meaning but you've already found meaning so it ceases being a search for meaning.

What use is it? That's the search. Any value given to any interpretation is meaningless unless meaning is found.

Tuko wengi

It's like expecting a mango tree to give oranges. No matter how much you curse and beat it up it's meaningless. Absurd indeed.

Long dead philosophers had their point to make, but they were just human. Limited as others now. Yet that's the strength and fuel for new ideas and perspectives.

Let's have a taste of a contemporary philosopher http://www.newyorker.com...011/09/05/how-to-be-good

@¿, I see that you've put some words in bold, and I guess that these words in bold somehow seek to affirm your belief in the absurd.

But I need to ask you some questions so that I may understand you better. For example, does it mean anything to say that something is 'meaningless'? Or rather, do you mean anything by saying 'meaning'?

If my guess is 'wrong' then there must be a 'correct' guess. Or better still I can ask, 'what do you 'mean' or 'signify' by putting some words in bold?

What do you see?

So there's meaning to your action. The meaning is your perception of reliance on belief of a philosopher like those 'long dead'.