What is the meaning of life for you if you really think about and accept that you only have one & it ends? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Light-Death-James-Lindsay/dp/1634310861/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479141083&sr=8-1&keywords=Life+in+light+of+death …
Talking abt a consistent human need for meaning & purpose whatever underlies it and diff ways humans seek to fill it.
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In James Lindsay's new book (which I'll be evangelical abt for a while) he looks at the regrets of the dying 1/2
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and the benefits of vividly imaging yourself to be dying so that what is important in ur life stands out & you can live for it.
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I wonder if it works in reverse. We feel our life has meaning and THEN make up what that meaning is. Confabulation.
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Talking abt our lives having meaning to us. Doesn't seem to have any other meaning. If we feel it does have meaning, that's it.
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You're thinking too big for my question which is simply 'What is important to you in life? How can you get the most out of it?'
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"What is important in my life" actually is an interesting question that makes sense to me. I've initially drawn a blank.
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Perhaps try thought experiments in Life in Light of Death? Imagining urself dying?What do u regret? Wish u'd done more or less?
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