RE: Meaning of Life
August 7, 2011 at 10:42 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2011 at 10:43 pm by Judas BentHer.)
(June 30, 2011 at 4:15 am)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: . I'm an avid reader of the work's of Friedrich Nietzsche, and in Here are some quotations from his works involving this idea: "My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space and to extend its force (--its will to power) and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an arrangement ("union") with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power. And the process goes on--"
Nietzsche was an eccentric, in my opinion. However, with regard to that quotation I would respond in contrast to his observation by saying, if mastery and the will to power is the meaning of life in humans, then most of us wouldn't run from tornado's.
Anthropocentrism, is evident even in presuming the meaning of life is to survive and either further our own destiny or breed.
What's the meaning of life? That would imply you have a purpose because you have a pulse. The meaning of your life is to live your will, among nearly 7 billion other individuals that are about the same business.
Why worry about what's behind the curtain, presuming there is a curtain or something there?
Live! Till you die.
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
