Blog 6: Counterargument

My final question: Is life meaningless. My answer: No, we have the pursuit of happiness, our families and friends to give our lives meaning. We each have our own talents even if I may not be able to throw a football like Peyton Manning, I may be able to draw a beautiful sunset. My counter argument will be based directly off of the example of Sisyphus. The rolling of the rock up and down the hill is exactly how some people feel that our lives are. The book The Truth about the World brings up this argument by saying that our lives are going up the hill and then we die. The rock rolls back down and our kids start to push it back up the hill again. The basic argument is that everything that we do will fade over time. You would have to build a temple that lasted for many generations to have any real meaning and even then the book still says there is no meaning. The counter argument says that even with things like the pyramids that are still lasting over time, people marvel over the icon and not the people who made them. People travel to see the pyramid and not King (fill in the blank). I do think this is a reasonable counterargument but it doesn’t change my opinion.