RE: Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?
November 1, 2021 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2021 at 2:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Is that really true? Your sense of meaning not only exists independently of whether any gods or fairy realms exist...it clearly informs your ideas about those gods and that fairy realm.
It's doing alot of work. I think you care..and..for what it's worth, the subject of meaning is explicitly about things that..you know..matter to us?
You told us justice was the thing, or a component of the thing. Don't really care about justice? Then why claim it? Does your life lack meaning, but possess a future...and what would that say about a meaningless future? My life has future as well - the sun will rise tommorrow and I'll be there for it. Meaning, however, pertains to what we intend (or at least could) use that future to engage with.
What is that for you, if anything? What do you do to be a part of it or in relation to it, as you must be for it to qualify in the first place? What does that look like day to day, as every future sunrise unfolds?
It's doing alot of work. I think you care..and..for what it's worth, the subject of meaning is explicitly about things that..you know..matter to us?
You told us justice was the thing, or a component of the thing. Don't really care about justice? Then why claim it? Does your life lack meaning, but possess a future...and what would that say about a meaningless future? My life has future as well - the sun will rise tommorrow and I'll be there for it. Meaning, however, pertains to what we intend (or at least could) use that future to engage with.
What is that for you, if anything? What do you do to be a part of it or in relation to it, as you must be for it to qualify in the first place? What does that look like day to day, as every future sunrise unfolds?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
