RE: Open discussion of the Christian Why We're Here thread
May 23, 2018 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2018 at 12:28 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 23, 2018 at 11:17 am)pocaracas Wrote: Is that what hope is all about? Hoping that we go on forever and ever?
Not necessarily. A temporary life can have value so long as that value endures. What people do not seem to understand that meaning, purpose, and significance all relate to something's "aboutness". Does someone's life point towards anything other than his or her own personal and proximate desires, something beyond themselves?
It is very difficult to justify that any purely physical being or system is about anything. They just do what they do. Just stating the obvious, that you personally have goals and purposes, doesn't in itself prove that the very ability to have intentions is based in one's physicality. Sure you can live and enjoy life, have things you want to do, and provide for the happiness and prosperity of future generations. That's all good, but what's it all "about". The eternal question is not how or what; but rather, why.
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