(March 6, 2015 at 4:23 pm)Nestor Wrote: I don't think meaning requires measuring the value of time, but if we choose to do so, the fact that nothing is meaningful in the long term makes it that much more meaningful in the short. This idea that the only thing that can have definite meaning is a thing that exists eternally and necessarily is a non-sequitur.
It's not just a measure of time, it's the reality of our future non-existence as well. Maybe I need a better definition of what you mean when you say 'meaningful'.