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Originally posted by skier
I was trying to ask those without God if they found life meaningful without that purpose, or if they found another purpose for life.
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What purpose does believing in God give? I missed something. I mean, there is "avoid hell, and win the heaven jackpot" common in many religions, but that is often independant of believing in God.
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Silvy, you didn't really answer the question. The things you do have meaning in themselves, but how do they give your own life meaning?
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Distinguish one's life from the things that are done in one's life? Without clarity, this sounds alot like "why yes, A is true, but how is A true?"
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Why do you do them, if in a few years you face obliteration and none of it matters anyway?
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First, I won't be obliterated. Or so I think. I may die, but that isn't being obliterated. And I might not die, being born at a fortunate time in history.
Second, how does death imply none of it matters? Death doesn't undo all that has occurred, that which is still is, that which was still was.
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How do you overcome the objective perspective that what you do in your life is so inconsequential?
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Inconsequential to what? Compared to what? My life and actions have consequences, a huge number of them, so it isn't absolutely inconsequential.
If your existance isn't the penultimate important part of your value system, no matter what your value system is, this isn't a problem. Now, even in most religions they reward you with "heaven" or the like, so I guess you could believe that this was the only option.