There appears to be at least two different conversations going on this thread. One posits that there can be no meaning without resurrection. Why? How does resurrection give meaning to our lives on earth?
In the other, @The Grand Nudger seems to acknowledge that theists have some idea in mind when they talk about meaning. I tend to agree that they do but I don't really hear them expressing it so well. Is this a failing of communication or an inability of them to understand their own idea? It seems that if you can't come to a solid understanding of what an idea is and communicate it, then I can't agree there's much to communicate in the first place. I think theists want there to be meaning that's god-driven, but because there's no satisfactory answer to that, they try their best to manufacture one and it falls on its face.
In the other, @The Grand Nudger seems to acknowledge that theists have some idea in mind when they talk about meaning. I tend to agree that they do but I don't really hear them expressing it so well. Is this a failing of communication or an inability of them to understand their own idea? It seems that if you can't come to a solid understanding of what an idea is and communicate it, then I can't agree there's much to communicate in the first place. I think theists want there to be meaning that's god-driven, but because there's no satisfactory answer to that, they try their best to manufacture one and it falls on its face.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
