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Let's Say I Achieve "Meaning." What Do I Do Next?

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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 5:41 pm
(September 24, 2016 at 3:07 pm)InquiringMind Wrote:
(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.

Yeah, I just think you're running afoul Maslow's Hammer in the OP.

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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? - by Cato - September 24, 2016 at 2:07 pm
RE: Let's Say I Achieve "Meaning." What Do I Do Next? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 24, 2016 at 5:41 pm

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