RE: Life is meaningless for Christians?
October 10, 2017 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2017 at 3:04 pm by Astreja.)
(October 10, 2017 at 1:25 pm)Jehanne Wrote: It's very sad to "live" for the day when one must die with the hope of attaining some state that does not exist.
I hesitate to even call that living. If you need to somehow justify your present existence with some hypothetical future reason, and look forward to future happiness rather than fully engaging with life in the present, you're doing it wrong.(October 10, 2017 at 1:49 pm)wallym Wrote: {Meaning is} better than subjective. It's physiological. It's just some internal wiring. It's so rudimentary that it's pretty hilarious we take it so seriously. We're like simple video game characters. "You gave me a potato. You now have meaning +1 to me."
There may be an element of that, but I think the wiring has a fair amount of plasticity and that we can deliberately modify it with things like repeated actions. (Either that, or my wiring has been optimized for woodwinds, chocolate, and insomnia...)
