RE: My Almighty VS your argument against it
May 4, 2022 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2022 at 5:00 pm by Alan V.)
It seems to me that half the problem is that religious people trick others into thinking of meaning only from their own religious or spiritual perspectives. For them, "meaning" is a loaded term.
For me, meaning is more a series of physical questions. Am I making enough money? Am I eating well? Do I sleep well? Am I productive for my community and in accordance with my own priorities? And so on. Those are the things that give my life meaning, since they are all about the quality of my existence. And they are also largely objective and quantifiable. The successes or failures of my life relate to the answers to such questions, and I am satisfied or dissatisfied as a result. In the end, the meaning of my life may be that I have largely been a failure for instance.
Religious meaning, in contrast, is about our relationships with fantasy constructs.
For me, meaning is more a series of physical questions. Am I making enough money? Am I eating well? Do I sleep well? Am I productive for my community and in accordance with my own priorities? And so on. Those are the things that give my life meaning, since they are all about the quality of my existence. And they are also largely objective and quantifiable. The successes or failures of my life relate to the answers to such questions, and I am satisfied or dissatisfied as a result. In the end, the meaning of my life may be that I have largely been a failure for instance.
Religious meaning, in contrast, is about our relationships with fantasy constructs.
