You all talk of meaning but don't seem to asses the criteria of what that word is in referance to.
My life has meaning only if I understand what meaning itself is. Does a sheep know what meaning is? I endevour to transform my understanding of what meaning is especially with the use of alternative states of consciousness in order to give my life more meaning or rather better my understanding of meaning itself.
To support this claim, if you ask a supercomputer or an ET what meaning is... they will give a definition of something that is different from yours because it is relative the intelligence, capacity and capabilities of the entity.
Cognitive Heart wrote:The question.. "
what is the meaning of my life?" .. what
IS life?!
Trust life. Be life.
Nice, I think though that they go hand in hand. If we don't know what something is, it has no meaning (literal definition of meaning) although there are other definitions of meaning, as stated above.
RAM wrote:Thanks for your response AstraLex, it's good to see some diversity of religious beliefs here. In my original post I said, "In an atheistic universe, it becomes not only our task to perform our duty, but to define it as well."
With this quote I was implying that in a theistic universe, it is only our task to perform our duty, as it would be defined by an ultimate being, like God in your case. Your idea of finding a meaning instead of creating one makes a lot of sense, but I'm sure that many atheists believe there is some kind of ultimate meaning or truth, which they have responsibility of finding as well.
Wow, never thought of it like that. That the meaning or definition of our lives lies in a metaphysical location that is still providing the explaination of our duty even when it is disconnected and unavailable from us like that.
Most people would find that ridiculous because people need to sense the definition in order for it to validate their duty... Yet we are unable to define it with our minds becasue of it's limited computational capacity
(Gödel's incompleteness theorems). Nevertheless that religious stand point is interesting because it is saying that there is meaning to everything it is just unknowable and known by God alone, and that we are vehicles for the meaning to take place. Like a slave relationship... seems like a raw deal to me
unless there is truth in death
universecannon wrote:
Then again, on the other hand there are some great techniques to help us along it seems... Some of it seems to coax or trick your normal "self" into relinquishing it's control and constant need of stimulation/thought. So I guess this whole thing is a bit paradoxical...heheh.
To quote the principia discordia:
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless... in some sense.
I assume you mean DMT?
If I could understand with complete clarity what every some sense meant to any statement... I would have an absolute definition of truth. Is such a thing possible? If your statement is correct then their would have to be.