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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (79984)	5/25/2000 3:40:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<edit> It's OK to push. You make me think. I consider that good. >To have a goal beyond the extinction of your temporal existance is not supported by the premise of nothingness at your death.< Exactly. Once I'm dead, I'm dead. Foosh. (an article of my faith, of course) But I draw sustenance from the idea that I'm a link in a chain of people working toward advancement ... and not simply mucking the place up. I have inherited wisdom and resources my forebears have worked to produce, and I'd like to leave my children with even more than I had. In terms of history, technology, philosophy, the whole enchilada. About purpose. I am alive, and I have a strong survival instinct. It's my opinion that pondering purpose is something we do as interested parties - to try to find a morally palatable supporting argument for entertaining that will to live. We want so much to believe that it is GOOD to be alive - that we end up constructing and handing on accommodating mythologies. Some of which take on weight and become religions. I also think we are wired to seek purpose, even if it is a mental red herring. Furthermore we are wired, powerfully predisposed, to think in terms of, and surmise traces of, a Guiding Hand. Again, an article of my faith.