(March 6, 2015 at 4:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:Hmm... well let's start with this:(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'.
I use it in reference to any object that serves an end and is consistent with my conception of the good things in life: freedom, security, happiness, etc.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza