Re: God, the Meaning of Life
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:40 am
It doesn't seem that non-human animals even ask, "what is the meaning of my life." They just go about doing what they do.
How is it any really much different with humans? We have the rationality to ask "why", but at the end of the day, it seems to me the meaning of life for humans is for humans to do what they do, the full range of it, including asking "why?" It seems to me a big part, maybe the main part, of the "meaning" to be quite bamboozled about any "ultimate meaning", at least if one is honest. My intuition thinks there is, but my intuition could be FOS. Some people seem fine not knowing, or being nihilists, or cabbaging on to some kind of faith or "spiritual experience", or sitting around smoking weed.
Different Strokes on the multifaceted diamond of human experience I like to call, "Mind ___." You can fill in the blank.
It's what humans do. Just like the non-human animals that do what they do.
At any rate, if there's an Afterlife, and I'd like to think there is, as the great philosopher Homer Simpson once said, "you'll find out when your dead."
How is it any really much different with humans? We have the rationality to ask "why", but at the end of the day, it seems to me the meaning of life for humans is for humans to do what they do, the full range of it, including asking "why?" It seems to me a big part, maybe the main part, of the "meaning" to be quite bamboozled about any "ultimate meaning", at least if one is honest. My intuition thinks there is, but my intuition could be FOS. Some people seem fine not knowing, or being nihilists, or cabbaging on to some kind of faith or "spiritual experience", or sitting around smoking weed.
Different Strokes on the multifaceted diamond of human experience I like to call, "Mind ___." You can fill in the blank.
It's what humans do. Just like the non-human animals that do what they do.
At any rate, if there's an Afterlife, and I'd like to think there is, as the great philosopher Homer Simpson once said, "you'll find out when your dead."