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[Serious] What gives your life meaning?
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we don't know how it started and we don't know where its going to end. we don't know any grand why's or what for's. We do know we are here and we can describe the system we are in to the best of our abilities. there are more than one "right" answer when we try and answer those questions. For any number of reason we may not be able to sort out the best ones. But when we put those answers next to each other and investigate the reason(s) people choose them we can often clearly see the ones that are not the best we have.
The best i can do for now is "pass it on." and help when I can.
anti-logical Fallacies of Ambiguity
 (October 26, 2019 at 7:59 am)comet Wrote: we don't know how it started and we don't know where its going to end. we don't know any grand why's or what for's. We do know we are here and we can describe the system we are in to the best of our abilities. there are more than one "right" answer when we try and answer those questions. For any number of reason we may not be able to sort out the best ones. But when we put those answers next to each other and investigate the reason(s) people choose them we can often clearly see the ones that are not the best we have. It's interesting how, for many people, having meaning in life simply means being a decent person to those around them...
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
 (October 26, 2019 at 3:01 pm)EgoDeath Wrote:(October 26, 2019 at 7:59 am)comet Wrote: we don't know how it started and we don't know where its going to end. we don't know any grand why's or what for's. We do know we are here and we can describe the system we are in to the best of our abilities. there are more than one "right" answer when we try and answer those questions. For any number of reason we may not be able to sort out the best ones. But when we put those answers next to each other and investigate the reason(s) people choose them we can often clearly see the ones that are not the best we have. And for some it' s being an insufferable prick. (October 26, 2019 at 4:04 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(October 26, 2019 at 3:01 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: It's interesting how, for many people, having meaning in life simply means being a decent person to those around them... I don't hang around those people
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
Making other people happy.
Pleasures and work that makes other pleasures possible
LastPoet
 Leader of the gang of jerkoffs(tm)  Religious Views: L'Uomo verrà portato dalla sua creazione
WRONG!
 (October 27, 2019 at 2:50 pm)LastPoet Wrote: WRONG! I have to say that simply being free to deal in reality is feeling really good to me at the moment. Just got back from visiting my two still-living older brothers over the weekend. One is still a devout fundagelical. His small mental repertoire is sad to see, given that he is intellectually quite capable (he is a retired engineer and once directed a large multinational corporation's artificial intelligence projects). "A mind is a terrible thing to waste". He knows I no longer believe and has mostly left it alone. He could not resist the impulse to try to proselytize my wife this morning on the way to the airport, though. Later, on the plane, she looked at me incredulously and asked, "Does he REALLY, actually believe he's going to heaven? For real?" (She has never been a believer). I said "yes ... really". She simply cannot believe he's that naive and deluded. Sadly, he is. Sadly, I once was. It's sort of like Conan the Barbarian in reverse. It is not seeing myself driven, as I once was, before the vicissitudes of life, beaten down and defeated, and not hearing the lamentation of my woman. I am very proud of my woman in fact. She metaphorically patted my brother affectionately on the head and said that he made a lot of sense. Even though he didn't. She could care less what he thinks about her or believes for himself. I did shut him up though with a brief summary of all the things the evangelical world I grew up in claimed to believe, and has done a 180 degree turn on since the 1980s. Not being involved in politics, or seeking worldly power for its own sake, not liking pussy grabbers and rapists and corrupt liars for example. He knows that is true -- that their vaunted morality is for sale for the right price (generally SCOTUS and federal judges of their liking). He is going to have to lay awake for a few nights thinking on THAT one. |
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