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    A philosophy professor writes:

    “I assume you’re here for The Meaning of Life?” I asked on the first day of classes a few falls ago.

    Sixteen heads bobbed over a regiment of crisp new notebooks and pens cocked for action.

    “That phrase is a bit misleading,” I said. “When most people hear it, they think of large-scale questions like ‘What does it all mean?,’ ‘Why are we here?,’ ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ The assumption is that there’s some deep order built into the universe that we might uncover and comprehend.”

    https://thepointmag.com/examined-lif...aning-of-life/

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    A philosophy professor writes:

    “I assume you’re here for The Meaning of Life?” I asked on the first day of classes a few falls ago.

    Sixteen heads bobbed over a regiment of crisp new notebooks and pens cocked for action.

    “That phrase is a bit misleading,” I said. “When most people hear it, they think of large-scale questions like ‘What does it all mean?,’ ‘Why are we here?,’ ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ The assumption is that there’s some deep order built into the universe that we might uncover and comprehend.”

    https://thepointmag.com/examined-lif...aning-of-life/
    we know.

    nihilism......

    fucking stupid.

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    Life is a "BYOP" proposition (Bring your own point).

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    ......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perry Phimosis View Post
    Life is a "BYOP" proposition (Bring your own point).
    So every single person on the planet has an absolutely unique understand of life?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    So every single person on the planet has an absolutely unique understand of life?

    Not entirely certain I get your meaning, what with the tortured syntax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perry Phimosis View Post
    Not entirely certain I get your meaning, what with the tortured syntax.
    Standard syntax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Standard syntax.

    Not really. I suspect you MIGHT have meant "standard understanding of life", but as it is written (caveman style) it is impossible to tell you meaning. Care to flesh it out a bit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perry Phimosis View Post
    Not really. I suspect you MIGHT have meant "standard understanding of life", but as it is written (caveman style) it is impossible to tell you meaning. Care to flesh it out a bit?
    fuck off you stupid troll

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    fuck off you stupid troll

    Perhaps you could learn to write in English? I suspect it isn't your first language but that doesn't mean you have to do it poorly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perry Phimosis View Post
    Perhaps you could learn to write in English? I suspect it isn't your first language but that doesn't mean you have to do it poorly.
    you are very stupid

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    A philosophy professor writes:

    “I assume you’re here for The Meaning of Life?” I asked on the first day of classes a few falls ago.

    Sixteen heads bobbed over a regiment of crisp new notebooks and pens cocked for action.

    “That phrase is a bit misleading,” I said. “When most people hear it, they think of large-scale questions like ‘What does it all mean?,’ ‘Why are we here?,’ ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ The assumption is that there’s some deep order built into the universe that we might uncover and comprehend.”

    https://thepointmag.com/examined-lif...aning-of-life/
    Good article. I’m re-reading a couple of portions of it to chew on it awhile.

    Thanks for posting it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Good article. I’m re-reading a couple of portions of it to chew on it awhile.

    Thanks for posting it.
    Good. This is the perspective of a professor talking about the analytic school of philosophy which tends to be science based.
    Her students look for meaning in their actual lives and experience. Thus analytic philosophy is not much help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    you are very stupid
    You lack any real evidence to support that claim (yet), so I will simply ignore it and attempt to address your crudely presented point.

    My point to which you responded was that life is a "bring your own point" concept. That's just a statement of a soft form of nihilism. I fail to believe that there is some overarching supernaturally developed "reason for life". It just is. It is up to us to figure out what we want to do with it.

    Now, are you able to discuss without name calling?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perry Phimosis View Post
    Life is a "BYOP" proposition (Bring your own point).
    ...annnnd your point is to be a dumbass troll posting from your living facility? Living a fantasy life online because your real life sucks ass?
    God bless America and those who defend our Constitution.

    "Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"

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