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Old 04-07-2004, 01:53 PM   #9 (permalink)
Yakk
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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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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