(September 24, 2016 at 3:07 pm)InquiringMind Wrote:And whether you approach it as a quantity of experiences or quality of overall experience and function.(September 24, 2016 at 2:59 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I was speaking more to the way you slather "meaning" willy-nilly in your OP to things that don't necessarily have, or need, meaning.
It seems to me to be a form of equivocation.
Life can be meaningful without applying that standard to every tiny facet of it, I think.
I was trying to explore whether or not meaning was ultimately what I'm looking for. I was seeing whether having the maximum possible meaning in my life is what I really want.
What is the most meaningful function/experience of a lump of coal? To be burned/transformed to release energy? Or energy to be used on it to compress it's loose carbon into crystal diamond?
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I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
