<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">One could argue a Bon Vivant and a Celebrant are the same as well.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Not really.  They're polar opposites.  The Bon Vivant is a nihilist (life has no meaning) at best, a sollipsist (other people/the world aren't real) at worst.  A Celebrant is joyfully devoted to a particular cause (thus, life has meaning/purpose).<br/><br/>The point could make sense if Celebrant and Fanatic are the analogy, as the one works for the joy of it and the other works out of a sense of duty (sorry for harping on that, but I teach argumentation and can't stand false analogies ;) ).