On Feb 1, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
A non-rational answer is, "It feels true."Ah, but how much of that is it feeling true versus your sense of fair play being appealed to? IOW how much of it is more "I *want* it to be true" than "it feels true"?
There's part of me that doesn't want it to be true -- the part of me that wants to act as though there's a God and I'm it.
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Most people work from that zone 102% of the time.
To the extent that anyone's life is what s/he makes it, yes, I can see that -- but again, what happens if you spend a lifetime striving for something only to discover it was purposeless? (Not saying that's going to happen to you, but what if it did?)
By choosing to create purpose. I'm not sure what you think I'm intentionally striving for. If the answer is "salvation," that goes against my theology. Somebody else did the work on that one.
Not salvation. I'm just suggesting that externalizing one's worth -- if I do such-and-such I have purpose -- is not necessarily the best scheme. This ties in to the other point about trees, horses etc. not needing to justify their existence in an objective sense.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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