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<p>This guy has it right.</p>
<p>Everyone saying that existentialism espouses absurdity and nihilism, that life has no meaning at all, are incorrect. Absurdism and nihilism are different from existentialism. Existentialism does hold that there is no intrinsic meaning to anything, but goes further to claim that life has meaning through our actions. The question posed by existentialism is, “Isn’t the very fact that you are alive substantial enough to give meaning to your existence?” Sartre’s centerpiece is that we are not born with meaning, but we create it with our values and actions.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if, in the end, everything collapses and has no ultimate meaning. What matters is that you lived. What matters is the here and the now.</p>