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The Meaninglessness of Meaning
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RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning
July 26, 2015 at 7:45 pm (This post was last modified: July 26, 2015 at 7:46 pm by Angrboda.)
Meaning exists because we exist as projects moving forward through time. I am not just a body. I am a student... or an engineer... or a housewife... We are our projects. When we ask ourselves who we are, the answer is in terms of capabilities, such as patience or intelligence, or in terms of roles, employee or student, or in terms of goals, working on being a musician. Our consciousness is more than impressions. Our 'self' project haunts our awake mind like a ghost we cannot see but nonetheless feel. It has momentum and inertia. The student values getting up when the alarm rings, because that is part of the project / role of his being a student who wants to be a doctor. He goes to class for the same reason. This term paper that is a part of his core class has an urgency that a non-core class paper does not. This exam causes him anxiety, because it matters to the project that he is.

Meaning exists because we are more than impressions. Meaning is a consequence of being a project in motion, moving forward through time.
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The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 25, 2015 at 5:08 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Longhorn - July 25, 2015 at 5:55 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Exian - July 25, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 25, 2015 at 7:47 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Cato - July 25, 2015 at 10:27 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Exian - July 25, 2015 at 9:26 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by BrokenQuill92 - July 25, 2015 at 11:17 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 25, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Cato - July 25, 2015 at 11:25 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 26, 2015 at 1:34 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Whateverist - July 26, 2015 at 12:27 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Cato - July 26, 2015 at 1:51 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 26, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - July 26, 2015 at 4:43 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - July 26, 2015 at 6:36 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Whateverist - July 26, 2015 at 1:23 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - July 26, 2015 at 8:25 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - July 26, 2015 at 3:06 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 26, 2015 at 4:52 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - July 26, 2015 at 8:14 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 3:48 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - July 27, 2015 at 11:41 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - July 26, 2015 at 4:58 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Angrboda - July 26, 2015 at 7:45 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 4:04 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 27, 2015 at 7:15 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 7:54 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - July 27, 2015 at 4:26 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 6:24 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Little lunch - July 27, 2015 at 6:06 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 27, 2015 at 8:55 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - July 27, 2015 at 12:10 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - July 27, 2015 at 5:09 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - August 10, 2015 at 6:59 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - August 12, 2015 at 2:07 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - August 12, 2015 at 10:33 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - August 13, 2015 at 9:59 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - August 13, 2015 at 10:26 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Whateverist - August 10, 2015 at 8:34 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - August 13, 2015 at 5:13 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - August 13, 2015 at 10:17 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - August 13, 2015 at 10:31 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Ben Davis - August 13, 2015 at 11:28 am

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