“There is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide”

Albert Camus

If this is the case, how can meaning be restored to peoples lives? In the past this takes the form of mass, organised religion, through which people can be assured, not only of a greater reason to exist, but so that a common belief system can be shared, and thus reassurance, can be established.

Though with subscriptions to religion falling, how do people make their lives meaningful?

Blaise Pascal argued that a life without God is meaningless and miserable. People would only be able to create obstacles or tasks and overcome them in an attempt to escape boredom. These small victories would not sustain however, and would ultimately be meaningless, since people would eventually die. 

How can an object or service (not organised religion) provide meaning to people lives? Perhaps reassurance can be established by showing/sharing others thoughts etc. in similar situations or of similar feelings?

This is already part of a widely accepted way of life; i.e. living to work and working to live. Each person is put in the same situation, whereby they can establish meaning in their lives, based on the tasks they have to complete, and presumably there is a reasoned thought process behind this. For example, I love my children, I need money to feed my children, therefore I must work for money.

This sounds a bit obvious to say, but I guess I noticed yesterday that there may be a large social group whom cannot establish meaning in their own lives in as rational a way as this. Perhaps this is because they live for themselves, rather for example than for family etc.

In which case there comes a situation where certain parts of peoples lives need to be validated and given meaning… If in current life there is nothing better, then why continue to work/do. Which I guess brings about ‘the absurd’, whereby the world, or life does not inherently have meaning or purpose and is only something you can apply to the world.

I feel as though I am over looking the whole societal aspect and the feeling of being part of organised religion; as Adler suggested even though people can think about and consider the idea of worshiping a god very rationally, and the thought that the god is not in fact deity and does not mean anything. When it is given to a group, the followers can give meaning to it because it puts them all on common ground, and gives a kind of group identity, and thus reassurance, and meaning.