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Originally Posted by james3wk
^Thank you for clearing up my confusion. You are looking for a meaning to existence, not a meaning to life (you are looking for a reason why you were born, not a reason to continue living). Those are vastly different questions. Meaning to life can be determined by whatever you want. A (positive) meaning to existence, though, can only be determined by the posibility of a higher power, otherwise there is no real meaning, you just are.
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I have always felt the meaning of existence is a more 'religious' question than what you call 'meaning of life.' That is why I was discussing it in this thread. (Technically, I suppose a devout religious person might have religion behind both meanings
). Sorry for the confusion!
