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Let's Say I Achieve "Meaning." What Do I Do Next?
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RE: Let's Say I Achieve "Meaning." What Do I Do Next?
(September 24, 2016 at 2:03 pm)Aroura Wrote: live it?

This may be the correct answer, and is possibly the only thing I've talked about here that I actually have the power to do.  It may also be the thing that I was actually made fore.  If Nature created me to be a disposable one-generation vehicle for passing on genes, and if I'm just going to be thrown away and recycled after I've outlived my usefulness, then "living" is the only thing I can really do. 

So maybe it isn't meaning that I really want.  What I really want is immortality.  I seek meaning only because I can't have immortality, and meaning is ultimately unsatisfying to me because it's not immortality.  I want meaning because I want to say, "If I can't have immortality, I at least want to know that my finite life meant something.  But this is still unsatisfying, because I want immortality.  

So I suppose that the next be thing I can do to living forever, is to live for whatever time I can.  So perhaps "live" the correct answer to the question.
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RE: Let's Say I Achieve "Meaning." What Do I Do Next? - by InquiringMind - September 24, 2016 at 3:05 pm
RE: Let's Say I Achieve "Meaning." What Do I Do Next? - by Cato - September 24, 2016 at 2:07 pm

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