RE: Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?
November 1, 2021 at 10:53 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2021 at 10:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Gratz on that news. It seems to me, and I bet it seems to everyone who knows you, that there's a difference between a world in which you've existed, and one in which you were never born. Sure, kids and all that...but probably not just that.
As for meaning and death and the death of meaning in death - perhaps death is in the sort of relationship we take to be meaning(ful). None of us can truly commit to life without accepting all of the attendant death which supports and nourishes it. The heterotrophs dilemma. All of the content which we see and take to be reduced by death is premised upon it, in reality. There could be none of that, without alot of this. It's intuitive to believe and perhaps even to worry that the world (and meaning) is done with us when we're dead....I think our role simply changes.
As for meaning and death and the death of meaning in death - perhaps death is in the sort of relationship we take to be meaning(ful). None of us can truly commit to life without accepting all of the attendant death which supports and nourishes it. The heterotrophs dilemma. All of the content which we see and take to be reduced by death is premised upon it, in reality. There could be none of that, without alot of this. It's intuitive to believe and perhaps even to worry that the world (and meaning) is done with us when we're dead....I think our role simply changes.
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!
