Worth Re: [FoRK] Faith and/or Science - Newton et al

[Lion Kimbro]

On Nov 28, 2007 4:32 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
> >   In your vision of the future, what do people live for?
>
> The sake of living.
>
> Life doesn't need a "for."

  So, --

  -- I've always **heard** this idea,
  but it has never really made any sense to me.

  Like the phrase, "We make our own meaning."

  It's just so... ...vacuous.

  "Yes, I make fairy castles in my head, and
   that is what I live for."  Being bound in nutshells
  and declaring ourselves kings of infinite space
  and so on.

  I literally do not understand it.

  People who live for nothing, just don't seem like
  a whole heck of a lot of fun, to me.  They seem
  like plants, or trees, or something.

  "What do you do with your days?"

    "Do? ... ... to what end?"

  May as well just say, "I survive to survive."

  I mean, at least level up to pure hedonism:
    "I live for great sex with hookers,"
  ...at least it's SOMETHING!

  But I think there are higher purposes out there than
  that.

  My theory of meaning is that all love naturally
  gravitates towards love for all of life, as we grow
  more conscious of the world.