[Arlo]: > Synthesize these two positions for me, Ham. > Do we not experience our "cosmic purpose"?
No. We "intuit it" if we believe it at all. Clearly, many do not. > I don't know about my cosmic purpose but like > Steve Martin's character in "The Jerk" I found my > "special purpose" at an early age. About all I have to > say about that I said earlier to Ron, > "Thank God for the internet!" Glad you found your special purpose via the Internet, but what, apart from arrogance, makes you think it's your "cosmic purpose"? > What in the world does this have to do with a collectivist view? I find that the post-modern, elitist, nihilistic concept of reality invariably hangs on a collectivist view of mankind. > I get confused a lot. If collectivists and nihilists are > the same, were Jesus and his disciples nihilists? This is a non-sequitor statement. Collectivism as a social system didn't appear until Marx in the 19th century. A dozen followers selected by a prophet doesn't constitute a collective, nor were the Hebrews of Judea nihilists, as you well know. Since you're not asking me whether whales and dogs have a cosmic purpose, I'll let you hash those vital questions out with Arlo. --Ham Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
