https://www.shawnconn.com/tags/meaning-life en https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/pathologically-american <article role="article" class="blog is-promoted teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/pathologically-american" rel="bookmark"><span>Pathologically American</span> </a> </h2> <footer><div class="author"> Submitted by <span><span>Shawn Conn</span></span> on <span>Wed, 04/04/2018 - 16:34</span> </div> </footer><div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>This country has an addiction to freedom, afforded to it by modern information technology, opening up once-in-a-lifetime sets of possibilities. </p> <p>Pure unadulterated freedom is like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation">sensory deprivation</a>, where long/forced durations of it "can result in extreme anxiety, hallucinations, bizarre thoughts, temporarily senseless, and depression."</p></div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/pathologically-american" rel="tag" title="Pathologically American" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Pathologically American</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul></div> </article> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:34:59 +0000 Shawn Conn 132 at https://www.shawnconn.com https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/meaning-life <article role="article" class="blog is-promoted teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/meaning-life" rel="bookmark"><span>The Meaning of Life</span> </a> </h2> <footer><div class="author"> Submitted by <span><span>Shawn Conn</span></span> on <span>Sat, 07/16/2016 - 21:13</span> </div> </footer><div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>I like to think that I know something about life. I've had 36 years of it. In that time, I've experienced much, and have met a diverse group of people, all of whom are driven by different things. Career, family, religion are some common examples, but there are so many others. If the world has taught me anything, it's that people have a broad and deep list of passions that drive them.</p> <p>So what's the common thread here? Is there an objective way to say that something, definitively, is the meaning of life?</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p></div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/meaning-life" rel="tag" title="The Meaning of Life" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Meaning of Life</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul></div> </article> Sun, 17 Jul 2016 04:13:34 +0000 Shawn Conn 115 at https://www.shawnconn.com