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Poll: To first order, which existential question occupies you the most
  • What is life?
    10.8%
  • Why to live life?
    13.2%
  • How to live life?
    57.4%
  • Where/when/w whom to live
    18.5%
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The force of the 32.5 year olds is strong in this one
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Everybody I interact with here sounds exactly 32.5, whatever their actual age, even me, despite my attempts to caricature myself back to my real age Eternal 32.5. Some seem much younger than they are, others seem much older. Occasionally the abstractions glitch to show real age.
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Not sure I agree. What is life is a scientific/definitional question. How to live life is an aesthetic/moral question. Why is there life is the one question to rule them all - why is there anything over nothing? It’s questionable whether science will ever…
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The poll is about why to live life, not why there is something rather than nothing. I tend to dismiss that as a primarily one that academic philosophers find interesting and not as interesting as they make it out to be.
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My progression has been in the opposite direction, from a/b to c
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In high school & college, I was like the 1st person in the dialogue below. 15+ years later, I’ve got a family, job, and mortgage, and I’m becoming like the 2nd person 😅 twitter.com/visakanv/statu…
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That’s interesting because it definitely has been the opposite for me and I have diary to prove! Except it’s not on the blockchain, so does it mean I haven’t lived at all?
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