That's because she's not my daughter, and I'm not her mother. Not because of anything you invented or imagined.
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Replying to @LanceVader @EveKeneinan
Exactly. I'm not claiming to gain meaning from anything I've invented or imagined.
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I'm claiming, I'd have thought unexceptionably, that what gives my life meaning is subjective & that's normal.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @EveKeneinan
But your example was of motherhood, which is not a subjective thing. You are objectively a mother.
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Replying to @LanceVader @EveKeneinan
Ha! But it doesn't objectively give my life meaning. I take it as my primary purpose which is subjective.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @EveKeneinan
Wrong. Motherhood is objectively meaningful to humans. That's why it's sacred in every religion.
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Replying to @LanceVader @EveKeneinan
You are still missing the point. Everything that is meaningful to me is meaningful to other humans. But not all.
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Eve was arguing that giving ourselves meaning is fake in comparison to some ultimate meaning of the universe.
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Universe doesn't care if one species of ape procreates. It has no brain. It has no meaning. That species cares.
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That I choose my life to be about motherhood, history, dogs,literature whilst someone else chooses none of those...
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...is all that was meant by deciding our own lives meaning. You agree that these are meaningful? You agree w me.
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