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How do you all deal with meaning in life? What experiences or reasoning lead you to your choice and how has/does it affect(ed) your life?

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EliRodriguez11 5 May 7
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Anyone read Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning?

Basically, to get through life, you have to find meaning. Very well written, very sad telling of his time in Nazi concentration camp.

I read it at a time when I was trying to get over a woman who I love. I think my therapist was trying to say "move on, don't let this be what your life is all about."

My life "does" have meaning. I'd a dad. I'm a son. I'm a husband. I'm a friend. I'm a citizen of the world.

What I do affects people. I try to be conscious of that.

I've only ever read summaries and reviews of the book. I've wanted to check it out though. Thanks for the insight!

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Perhaps the meaning of life is to live the question. As Lao Tzu said: "To dance the dance of existence."?

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Frequently I have a sense there is no meaning and I'm just waiting to die

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I'm with Jane Austen on this one.

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I continue to search for is the truth about why we are here. I don't think I will ever find an answer and maybe I am not capable of finding an answer. World religious beliefs and moral ideas are fascinating. I have read (or rather listened to) a number of books written by the 4 horsemen and they really make one think about life. I was a Christian for 62 years before becoming agnostic. My change may be a result of science study and teaching. To me, it is hard to believe in both Christianity and evolution. Doesn't the story of Adam and Eve along with Noah's Flood seem a lot like fairy tales? It seems unlikely that a God of the universe picked out one little planet and made it just for mankind and then asks them to believe in something based on very little evidence. And then if you don't believe you will burn in fire for ever and ever, and ever.

I enjoy the work of the 4 horseman as well. Particularly Hitch for his extensive knowledge on the history and consistency of religion and Dawkins for his biological understanding. I appreciate Harris' contributions in working to explain away free will with his knowledge of the brain. As for a reason why we are here, you might have heard Dawkins and Krauss speak about the question "why." They say that why should mean more "how" or "what caused" a thing to be that way. Because "why" in some sense assumes some purpose. And the answer to the question of "why" why we are here I'm familiar with is because of evolution. Biological...chemical...cosmological...etc. As for why those things are the way they are is unknown. Because they all reduce to physics and no one knows why physics is the way it is. This is where religion establishes a dogma and atheists seek other answers or suspend judgement.

Also, check out the group: "Philosophy"

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I kind of questioned the meaning of life since my high school years (late 1970s). Although my parents weren't devout Catholics, I attended a Catholic college, and became an atheist shortly into my first theology class. Logic 101 didn't help matters much either.

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I answered "other", but my true answer is "both". I accept that there is none other than what I create for myself.

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