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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!cunews!emc
- From: emc@doe.carleton.ca (Eli Chiprout)
- Subject: "meaning" of life (was: Throop/Nietzsche problems)
- Message-ID: <emc.725211849@vash>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- References: <182@fedfil.UUCP> <schumach.725155750@convex.convex.com> <184@fedfil.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:44:09 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In <184@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
-
- >Evolution logically denies the next world. Without something beyond this
- >world, what meaning would you claim your life has? What do you plan on
- >doing within the next ten years which anybody 5000 years from now will have
- >any way of knowing about or which will affect them or anything else in the
- >universe in any way?
-
- Why is leaving posterity a memory of your present actions so important to
- you? That question is more fundamental.
-
- While you answer that, can you tell us what the meaning of the next
- world is that differs from this one? Why do we need a present world
- before we reach the more meaningful next world? Why not go directly
- to the more meaningful one?
-
- But before you do that, let's define our terms more clearly. Can
- you define what you mean by "meaning" and "meaningful" so that we
- don't cross our wires. Then proceed to tell us what "meaning" YOUR
- life has with the knowledge of the next world.
-
- You have been candid up till now, so please continue so we can
- all benefit and learn something.
-
- >Ted Holden
- >HTE
-
- --
- Eli Chiprout
- Dept. of Electronics,
- Carleton University, Canada
- emc@doe.carleton.ca
-