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To: Hank Kerchief
I will even try to answer your current question, but first, you must answer a question for me. What do you believe the purpose of your life is?

That which I choose of my own free will.

237 posted on 01/01/2004 9:17:24 PM PST by possible
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To: possible
I will even try to answer your current question, but first, you must answer a question for me. What do you believe the purpose of your life is?

That which I choose of my own free will.

If I answer your question the way you answered mine, I think you will be very critical of my answer. The question is, what have you chosen, and why, unless you mean, a human life has no purpose or that it is totally arbitrary. If that is what you mean, that is where we will have to begin.

If life has no purpose, there is no need for morality at all. If life has no purpose, it does not matter what you do. Steal all you want. Values, especially moral values, presuppose some goal or purpose or objective. That which supports or promotes that purpose is good, and that which denies or prevents the purpose is bad. But first, the objective must be defined.

If you like, I will tell you what the purpose of life is, but I would rather you told me. It will be based on what you have discovered about your own nature by two things you observe: introspectively about your own conscious nature, and extrospectively, about the nature of the world you live in, including other people.

Hank

244 posted on 01/02/2004 6:03:55 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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