What do you think of when a meteor crosses the sky?

When a meteor crosses the sky, do you immediately think of making a wish? But what's the point?

When we ask the meaning of a thing, there are two aspects. On the one hand, what is its value and what role it plays for us; On the other hand, it hides something and tells us something. When we watch children keep watching ants move, we will say that it is meaningless to let them do it. It is better to read the text, because it has no effect on improving their grades. This belongs to the former meaning. And the meaning of the latter, the simplest is to ask the meaning of the signature, is it good or bad, is it a blessing or a curse.

Ernst Cassirer defined man as a "symbolic animal" in On Man: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Culture, because man has the ability to give meaning to things around him, and then create an "ideal world".

In the first episode of the reading program "One Thousand and One Nights", a netizen asked Liang Wendao: "Almost every time a Taoist appeared, it was an irregularly cut cloak coat. What's the point? " Liang Wendao said, "That's too tiring. You should think about what it means to wear a skirt. Have you ever thought about, for example, what it means to blow your nose with your hands? There are too many meaningful things in this world. This is called over interpretation. "

I think the reason why netizens over-interpret it is because of Liang Wendao's identity. Maybe he thinks Mr. Liang is a scholar and a cultural communicator, so many things have his own thinking and another meaning. Identity is also a symbol. People are people from the beginning, and then there are various occupational divisions. Although there is no distinction between high and low occupations, they represent different meanings. As ordinary people, we feel that intellectuals like Liang Wendao are special, and they will discover and dig the essence of events in life. But as Liang Wendao said, "That's too tired."

Interpretation of dreams is also an act of questioning meaning. As for the story of dream interpretation, I believe many people know the story of a scholar dreaming.

The story goes like this: a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam had three strange dreams before the exam, namely, growing vegetables on the city wall, playing with an umbrella and hemp fiber in rainy days, and staying in bed with his favorite person back to back during the day. He hired a fortune teller to explain his dream. The fortune teller said that all these dreams were ominous. Three dreams show that he is white and redundant, and daydreaming shows that he has no hope in this exam. The scholar wanted to go home from the hotel. The shopkeeper asked him why he left without taking the exam and told him three dreams. Instead, the shopkeeper congratulated him on having a good dream and reinterpreted three dreams, namely, high school, foolproof and happy days are coming. Hearing this, the scholar turned grief into joy.

Many people quote this story as saying that different understandings of things will have different effects on people. I want to say that dreams may be meaningful, but they have no ability to predict the future. Think every day, dream at night, let nature take its course. What's the point? By extension, many behaviors of others in life may be natural or unintentional, which is meaningless and does not require too much speculation.

When we pursue meaning excessively, we will fall into superstition. Behaviorists often use the stimulus response theory to explain the religious superstitions of the ancients. At that time, people didn't understand nature at all, and they imagined a mysterious force. In the process of getting along with and struggling with nature, human beings have explored some fixed laws.

Sacrifice, especially for the living, is a superstitious law. Maybe in a big disaster, such as a flood, some people didn't take it away. At this time, the flood has just subsided, and some people think that offering sacrifices to the river god can avoid the flood.

When answering the question of what students mean to life, Bi Shumin said that life is meaningless, but you can give it meaning. Yes, the bad luck or luck that the world throws at us is accidental, and we can give it a meaningful taste with our wishful thinking. But at the same time, we should also know that life itself is meaningless, and there is no need to give it meaning far-fetched, which will be very tiring.

Meteor across the sky, we will make a good wish. Just because we can't see meteors at night doesn't mean we can't have a bright future.

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