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Re: Life, the Universe and Everything (addition)
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 12.235.229.250
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 20:22:28
In Reply To: Re: Life, the Universe and Everything (addition) posted by Melanie on Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 20:14:57:

> > > > What is really the meaning of life? Why are we here?
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> > > Second question: By chance.
> > > First question: There isn't one.
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> > > Throughout history, people have come up with many excellent life purposes and goals for themselves and others. To live without doing this to some extent, at least for oneself, would be ridiculous. But given my answer to the second question, I don't believe it makes any sense to believe there is an ultimate meaning/purpose to life which we are supposed to discover.
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> > I should have added this -- asking "What is the meaning of life?" IS a religious question and can never be anything else. The question assumes that life, and particularly human life, is here for a purpose. Asking for non-religious answers to a religious question just isn't something that can be done.
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> I never said it could not be spiritual. I said not religious. By religious, I would be taking it to mean "According to religions, or doctrines which say that the ultimate goal is God's". So I want to get away from saying that life exists because someone made it and said "exist". That's all.
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> Melanie

That was what I was trying to get across. In this context (though not in most other contexts), "spiritual" and "religious" are pretty much the same thing to me. You are asking a question which assumes life has an ultimate meaning. Life having an ultimate meaning, in turn, assumes a purposeful creator. There is not way it can't. Do you see what I'm saying here? It's not a question which can be answered according to the restrictions you have placed upon it.

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