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Marxists, for instance, are usually atheists, but they believe that human life, or what they would prefer to call ‘history’, has a meaning in the sense of displaying a significant pattern.

What is amusing about Deep Thought’s ‘42’ is not just the bathos of it

Like a bombastic speech, life appears to be meaningful but is actually vapid.

Michael Palin as an unctuous Anglican vicar in the Monty Python film, ‘The Meaning of Life’.

[...] If everyday life was deficient in meaning, then it would have to be artificially supplemented with the stuff. It could be laced from time to time with a dash of astrology or necromancy, as one might add vitamin pills to one’s daily diet. Studying the secrets of the ancient Egyptians made a pl…