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The thing that's meaningful and the thing that we cry out for, as agnostics or atheists, is what Albert Camus referred to, as you know, the Absurd. We call out for meaning from a universe that's indifferent to us. As the philosopher Michael Hauskeller tells us, this version of the Absurd threatens us to rob us of our sanity. Here be lions and dragons. Here be cold and dark and empitness. And that's uncomfortable, right?