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I am not sure if this topic should go here or on the philosophy forum, etc. But it is something that I needed to get of my chest.

This might come as a shock to those of you who know me that I am not an absurdist. I know it certainly shocked me. For years I have been preaching the word of absurdism for so long, but I found out only recently that I have been getting absudism wrong almost the whole time.

True Absurdism is the idea that man's limited mind could never know the meaning of the existence, whether or not such a meaning exists. It extends to the idea that this same limited mind can never truly know nor anticipate anything.

Reading this definition closely, it appears to me to be more akin to something like agnosticism that claims that God is unknowable (whether God exists or not).

I, on the other hand, believe that there is no meaning to the universe. There is no doubt in my mind that there is not, nor can I accept that there may be, a meaning. I say things are unknowable not because humans can never know them, but because there is nothing to know.

After doing some research (too much research really), I found my personal philosophy to be more akin to something like Discordianism than anything else. To some extent this too irks me because I thought for a few nanoseconds that my philosophy might have been original instead of something already created by the late 50s.

Oh well. *sigh* and c'est la vie

One should never get too comfortable in a particular school of philosophy. If there's one thing that should be consistent in the study itself is the pursue of free thought and avoidance of dogma.

Don't stick to definitions, they seldom define what something is...