Dogmafood writes:
What is your answer to the absurdity of life? What guides your compass and where do you spend your time?
Love, beauty, truth and pleasure.
I've never had any other specific goals in life, nor a practical compass to steer by. If I did, I suppose the above would serve as cardinal points.
From them I can derive more pragmatic guides: to be kind and generous, to stay clear of boredom, to see clearly and not, for example, ignore insults to the first three in service to the fourth: don't let your baby down.
I'm as atheistic about a "larger meaning" to life as I am about a Creator: I've seen no evidence of either one, and, even if either or both existed, we're too recently evolved beyond pond scum to have any sound ideas about them. Since I bear lesser relationship to the universe than an atom to my body, it's difficult to imagine that I have even trivial significance, and even more difficult to imagine the universe offers me a golden compass for my infinitesimal voyage.
Still, I do have a romantic streak. Back when I considered myself an agnostic, I sometimes thought our notions of gods might be intimations of our future selves--if there were to be god-like beings and meanings in the universe, those are what we must become and create.
Mostly, Omnis just want to have fun.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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