RE: Purpose? No idea what it is.
November 15, 2018 at 8:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2018 at 8:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 14, 2018 at 4:19 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote:(November 13, 2018 at 6:01 pm)Dr H Wrote: I see a certain paradox inherent in that view. For something to be a "waste of time", implies that there's some better use to which that time could have been put. What would that be?
I'm not saying that... I'm saying that I personally can't argue with theists about purpose.
Sure, and there's really no need to, insomuch as you can simply accept that your life has no god-purpose. It may still have transcendent purpose, eternal purpose, real purpose..etc.
Quote:Will any of this matter when our star dies?There's really no need to set up some future hypothetical to answer that question. All of the people who fought in the revolutionary war are dead. Their star, as it were, has died. Nevertheless, their purpose transcended the limits of their life, and no matter what happens from now until forever it will always have been something that was meaningful, and did happen. Even when our star blinks out...all of that will still be true.
Did it matter? Yes. Did it god-matter? No.
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