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Old 2008-07-27, 21:03   Link #1133
TinyRedLeaf
Moving in circles
 
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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Originally Posted by Reckoner
If other animals can live just for living, why can't humans live just for living? I do not feel that life needs a meaning.
Because unlike animals, humans are self-aware. I contend that you do know what is meaningful for you, only that you haven't articulated it yet.

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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
To reduce the complexity of life and morals to small set of simple basic principles is work for a genius. I'm not that kind of genius (or any kind, alas), or I'd have made a fortune writing self-help books.
Try harder. Or rather, you don't have to try that hard. Life is "complex" because, sometimes, we think too much.

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Originally Posted by Reckoner
I have a question for you (I'm agnostic as well by the way). Does life need a meaning?
What's stopping you from ending it all, right here, right now?
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