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• in Lifestyle
  Faster Than the Speed of Light
  Einstein and Aquinas
  by taskmap / on Oct 10, 2011
• in Entertainment
  Are You One Whom God Would Destroy?
  What do alien abductees, God, and Big Macs have in common? Find out in WHOM GOD WOULD DESTROY.
  by missbobetier / on Feb 7, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “meaning of life”

 

• From Maya Angelou To Abigail Adams: Read History’s Finest Letters Of Motherly Advice & Wisdom

  
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  I just got off the phone with my mom to wish her a good ol’ Happy Mother’s Day.  My parents live nine hours away from Montreal in northern Ontario, and the last time I spoke with her was last weekend when it was a hot & hazy 30C where she was.  This morning, however, she told me the ground outside is covered ...
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• I read a funny post today...

  
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  A couple of weeks ago I got involved in a group email.  (Never get into that!)  Im not on Facebook or Twitter - for a reason...  I dont do forums or chat rooms - for a reason.  I wont be doing group emails ever again, for the same reason.  As in any live conversation you say too much, say things you shouldnt, and ...
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• William Vallicella on the Meaning of Life

  
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  William Vallicella (aka Maverick Philosopher ) recently made a series of posts on the topic of meaning of life , and these contain some of the most philosophically sophisticated and refined discussions that I have read on the matter. In this post I’d like to summarize some of his main conclusions, primarily for ...
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• Afterlife FAQs

  
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  If you don’t find what you’re looking for, make something up.   Why do we die? “Same old” would be an eternal curse without death. We need the fertilizer and the space. Is there a God? If you want. Life’s a better game with referee. Why so many religions? Why so many sports? Or races, ...
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• It Takes Just a Minute…

  
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  “..They say it takes a minute to find a special person. An hour to appreciate them. A day to love them. And an entire life to forget them…” ~unknown It is amazing when it happens. It really takes just a minute to meet somebody who will leave an amazing impact on your life. Have you ever met somebody who ...
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• The Absurd Again: Weak and Strong Nagelian Theses

  
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  This post is a sequel to The Absurd: Nagel, Camus, Lupu .  See it for bibliographical details and for background. In his essay "The Absurd," Thomas Nagel maintains that "the philosophical sense of absurdity" arises from "the collision between the seriousness with which we take our lives and the perpetual ...
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• 15 Simple Ways to Put Meaning Back into Your Life

  
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  What is the meaning of life? That’s for you to decide, you get to choose. Instead of going through life without meaning only struggling to survive, stop along the way and begin to notice things around you, begin doing things because you want to do them not because you have to.Here are some possibilities of things ...
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• Suffering? Why do we suffer?

  
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  Why do we suffer? Why do we say "why me?" when something goes wrong and what is the reason why we suffer? Do you believe that life is suffering? Do you believe that you are here to suffer? Why? Im 37, my childhood was marked by a sense of injustice: alcoholic father and sick mother. At the age of 12 I lost ...
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• Long Views and Short Views: Is Shorter Better?

  
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  The long views of philosophy are not to everyones taste.  If not bored, many are depressed by the contemplation of death and pain, God and the soul, the meaning or meaninglessness of our lives.  They prefer not to think of such things and consider it best to take short views.  If as Thomas Nagel maintains , the ...
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• The Absurd: Nagel, Camus, Lupu

  
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  I have been re-reading Thomas Nagels seminal paper, "The Absurd," which originally appeared in The Journal of Philosophy , October 1971, and is collected in Nagels Mortal Questions (Cambridge UP, 1979, 11-23.)  Damn, but it is good.  Nagel is one of our best philosophers.  Hes the real thing. Nagels central ...
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• How to Blog, For Real

  
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  I’ve been blogging for roughly twelve years, and writing online daily for longer than that.  It’s both just a habit and vastly more than a habit. Sometimes it’s nearly compulsive.  There are so many listicles online about what makes an effective blogger, and how to blog to succeed in business, but I think it ...
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• Philosophy Wire: Sickness - Useful reminder?

  
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  Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-28]: We are unhappy when we stay too attached to our body. Could sickness be a mechanism to remind us that we are more than that? (c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophys perspective...
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• Born Again

  
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  For me, I don’t think there’s anything as energizing as the onset of spring.  As the temperature becomes mild, the birds began to sing and the crocuses began to appear I feel my spirits lift.  There’s a sense of rebirth in the air; life reappears after months of dormancy.  In some ways it’s like a religious ...
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• Kokura, Japan: a wrenching story about luck

  
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  I recently stumbled across an article about the fate of Kokura Japan near the end of World War II. In a sentence, cloudy weather saved the people of Kokura from being consumed in the world’s second nuclear bomb attack. Those same clouds doomed the people of Nagasaki. A young man named Kermit Beahan peered ...
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• The Meaning of Life Must be Subjectively Appropriable

  
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  The meaning of life, if there is one, cannot be subjective. This was argued in an earlier entry in this series on the meaning of life.  But the meaning of life cannot be purely objective either. The meaning of life, if there is one, must somehow involve a mediation of the subjective and the objective: the meaning ...
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