this is sophistry. querying the meaning of life is equivalent to querying the purpose of existence
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And exactly the same answer can be used for "purpose of existence". It too is a category error for precisely the same reason. See my other responses in this thread for further information.
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being right is the point of sophistry. using a symbol to argue that life is not a symbol is exemplary
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Using a symbol to argue that using a symbol to argue that life is not a symbol is exemplary is most exemplary of all.
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The point is that there is no intrinsic highest good, because the wider universe doesn't recognise such parameters. It has no meaning because meaning is alien to it, regardless of what meaning means to us.
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Thus, while you can always find *a* meaning of life (a subjective one), you'll never find *the* meaning of life (an objective one).
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Just because they think it's objective, doesn't make it so. The "objectivity" they claim to know is ultimately their subjective judgement. Anyway, I'm tired of this now. It's clear you are just arguing for the sake of arguing. I wish you all the best.
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I don't see how it's useless. There's a big difference between your or my meaning of life and *the* meaning of life. The former can be whatever we want it to be; the latter is the immutable, transcendent meaning we all yearn for when we ask, "what is the meaning of life?"
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Meaning is by its very nature what we want it to be. We choose what the word "apple" means. Nature didn't apply the word "Apple" to apples, we did. In other countries, other words are used for apples. Hence, the meaning of the word "apple" is subjective.
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When someone decides that the meaning of life is to follow Christianity, that's subjective also. Unless you believe Jesus really is the son of God?
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