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why ‘meaning’ has any significance to survival and species proliferation

“Meaning” is relative to goals, and goals can be anything.

external ‘meaning’

?? goals can be external or internal.

What if ones goal is to be a perfect serial killer?

Seriously, using the term ‘thrive’ is like using a blank card that you declare anything you like to be written on it.  It’s a contextual term that doesn’t have specific meaning between contexts.

I’m still waiting to hear why ‘meaning’ has any significance to survival and species prol…[Read more]

a good clear detailed definition of thriving (especially when translated to say, insects or bacteria)

A state of physical and psychological health and strength.

Is it not very possible to have a meaning in life which is the antithesis of “thriving”?

One definition of the meaning of X is the way that X is relevant to one’s goals.  So, if one’s goal…[Read more]

Davis wrote:

how does it even make sense that nature is prone to and develops thriving when one person thriving is often based on limiting another person from thriving?

Natural selection is relative.

There is not a whole lot of thriving going on in Southern Sudan or Somalia…and these places, are a whole lot more similar to human history than ours is.

I’ve never said that everybody thrives, I’ve always said that everybody wants to thrive.

Strega wrote:

Thanks for Kiva, Reg. Good website.

Yes, I think it will be fun selecting. What a great idea !

”Without meaning, life is meaningless”

Have you found some cosmic source of information which suddenly says “humans are entitled to meaning”? MUST that meaning be inherent? Is it possible that most “meaning” in life is dictated by manipulative religions/ideologies/insanity? Perhaps the greatest meaning of all is what an individual objectively wor…[Read more]

I am sure they also want to thrive.

Simon, your “thriving” meme has sort of morphed into a false dichotomy of either:

1. People are compelled by nature to thrive

2. People are not compelled by nature to thrive.

Things aren’t remotely this black and white. There are thousands of consideration that go into human decisions and life choices and…[Read more]

@simonpaynton

”Without meaning, life is meaningless”

Was this statement worth the font it was written in?  It’s more fun to note that without Ruth, life is ruthless.

I don’t have an award for stating the obvious, but if I did, I’d be awarding it for that one

Thanks for Kiva, Reg. Good website.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

For many millions of people life means being born to suffer. They live on the edge of starvation and famine and often know nothing other than civil war and conflict.

Add to that the supreme irony of being born at all on the planet Earth, the only place we know of anywhere in the cosmos with any life on it at all.

One easy way we can all help is to make small loans to people. $30-$100 is probably nothing to most of us. If in the unlikely event of never getting it back we will still eat tomorrow and sleep in a bed afterwards.

Here is how to do it. Kiva Lending

Come on folks….you know you want to 🙂

For many millions of people life means being born to suffer. They live on the edge of starvation and famine and often know nothing other than civil war and conflict.

I cannot even comprehend that level of suffering, In fact, I wish to not even think about it. But it’s real..and in the time I take compose this drivel, many little children will die…[Read more]

Their goal is to simple survive. They only understand the pressure to survive another day and give little thought to thriving.

I am sure they also want to thrive.

When someone’s back is up against the wall, small things take on a great meaning.

Without meaning, life is meaningless, and it seems that people don’t like life to be meaningless, it goes along with “aimless”, “pointless” etc.

That is quite the tautology Simon.  For many millions of people life means being born to suffer. They live on the edge of starvation and famine and often know nothing other than civil war and conflict.…[Read more]

Strega wrote:

Who do you want to matter to? Why do you want to matter? Why do you feel your life ought to have meaning? Where does the desire for meaning come from?

This a good question: do we need meaning, and if so, why?

We naturally matter to ourselves, and most of us need to matter to others too.  Because humans are so heavily into…[Read more]

Davis wrote:

Should Director David Lynch have looked for a severely deformed person to play the role of the “elephant man”

LOL. I can only imagine once Earth makes contact with aliens, the outrage they will feel when humans use “animation and special effects or humans in costumes” as opposed to actual alien actors. I would imagine the alien “…

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I wonder if Hollywood would ever make a movie about this case in Egypt? Would they dare cast a non-Muslim as the presiding judge in the court?