Robin writes:
I see your point. However, we must realize that any fulfillment we might find is subjective in nature and thus in the long run meaningless.
I continue to disagree, Robin. Subjective does not equal meaningless. All meaning is constructed, whether by gorillas or gods.
Consider the alternative: is the purpose of human life is to adore the being who created us? That purpose seems no less subjective to me, since it is made by a single intelligence for its own pleasure.
In the cases you referred to, we define and seek our own fulfillment; in the latter, someone else makes it up for us, and we are either spiritual sycophants and lackeys or (many or most of us) eternally tormented losers.
What's objective about that? It remains an individual perspective--the very essence of the concept of subjective--that determines that meaning.
We all have the gift of creation. Either a god formed us in that Creator's image or we emerged from chaos with it as a birth-right: I make it up, you make it up, He makes it up.
We all make it up. You can make your own meaning, or you can accept the meaning that someone else made for you. I'd rather make my own.
God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ”Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’
--Ann Coulter, Fox-TV: Hannity & Colmes, 20 Jun 01
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