Continuation of previous post on creation of meaning

The making of life a creative act is not to deny the truth of experience or imply hidden reality behind subjective reality but rather that subjective reality generally and broadly accurately reflects the objective reality from which it is derived, the creative act is in the interpretation of experience and the conceptualization and categorization of raw experiential data into understanding. We are presented by our senses with information which our minds must sort and organize into useful form. We can do this by using the long established categories passed down for generations, and this is certainly a reasonable expedient and logical method of avoiding needless repetition of work. However this also has the potential of repeating past errors. It is also important to understand that choosing to use the categories established by others is still a choice and a creative act. We take in the world around us and filter it through our mental structures and concepts of what the external objective world most like is and create our mental subjective image of the objective world. We can (and should) choose to continually reexamine our assumptions and categories used to comprehend the world around us. This can become a social act when we compare our understanding with that of others and confirm or throw doubt upon our own understanding. By each person approaching the world as an individual and then individuals coming together to agree on that which is common across all experience, we begin to approach the social construction of reality. This socially constructed reality gives light to the political arm of my nihilist philosophy, and I realize how controversial it is to claim that word and I intend to defend that choice in the future, but as we recognize the socially constructed nature of the world around us we see that things in the world do not need to be as they are and can be changed by the simple will of people to change the world around us and the ways in which we address and understand it. This again is not to imply the non-existence of truth, there is certainly truth which is undeniable by and independent of human interaction with the world but this is merely the factual limitations of the world around us but the way in which we address these facts is entirely up to us.

The denial of inherent meaning in the universe amounts to a denial of all forms of idealism and an embrace of empiricism. We are not interacting merely with representations of a reality we cannot access but with the actuality directly. We cannot come to knowledge through abstract thought and logic alone but rather only through direct experience. Logic can tell us the constraints upon what we might expect to find through our experience but it cannot tell us conclusively that what we experience is or is not true. Obviously our experiences can mislead but this does not happen solely when they are no longer logical... we can be wrong but still logical...but when any of our senses are misleading we can fall back on other senses and on the senses of those around us to confirm or negate our own sense perception.