RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 21, 2016 at 3:15 pm
I'll go through an example of finding meaning in a secular accomplishment as a religious person.
I've got a couple of publications out there from my research. What is the meaning of those publications? As a Mormon, I would have said that they were meaningful because the prepared the way for God's kingdom to return to Earth, and because they were resume bullet points that would help me in my life, which meant finding a job and attracting a woman. The selfish meaning for those publications, which I just mentioned, were important because I was going to live forever and I needed to get started on it, so I needed a job, and if I was going to have an eternal wife I'd better be with someone I wanted to be with, so it was important to make myself appealing. That would have been the meaning.
Now I'm not sure what the meaning of those publications is. So some people are enlightened by them, but so what? If we're all doomed anyway, then what is the meaning of my publications?
I've got a couple of publications out there from my research. What is the meaning of those publications? As a Mormon, I would have said that they were meaningful because the prepared the way for God's kingdom to return to Earth, and because they were resume bullet points that would help me in my life, which meant finding a job and attracting a woman. The selfish meaning for those publications, which I just mentioned, were important because I was going to live forever and I needed to get started on it, so I needed a job, and if I was going to have an eternal wife I'd better be with someone I wanted to be with, so it was important to make myself appealing. That would have been the meaning.
Now I'm not sure what the meaning of those publications is. So some people are enlightened by them, but so what? If we're all doomed anyway, then what is the meaning of my publications?
