Re: The Myth of Meaning
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You have a chance to give value for any hour when you still exist. After your death you don't have such chance. Im not saying that its easy to have a meaningful eternal life but that meaning is impossible in mortal life.
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No, "meaning" is not a conclusion at the end of a metaphysical argument that starts with the premise "God exists." Meaning is an existential quantity.
This is abundantly clear with a contrived example. One person hears the Gospel at age 8, and is then shut up in solitary confinement for the rest of her life. The other person never hears the Gospel, but has a healthy, beautiful family and at the end of a long career in medical research, discovers the cure for AIDs.
Whose life will be more "meaningful?"
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