AUTHOR: Philosophistry
TITLE: What is the meaning of life?
DATE: 8/04/2004 12:12:00 AM
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"What is the meaning of life?" has become endowed as the holy grail of existential questions.

But it doesn't have to be so holy or graily.  Instead, my response to that question is with another question, "Why am I asking that question?"

The goal is to basically eliminate whatever is making you want to ask that question, and not necessarily to find an actual "purpose."

When the question "what am I good for?" pops up, it is likely because you are feeling unfulfilled.  So then, it's simply a matter of pumping up fulfillment.

What makes you feel fulfilled?

If you don't have a ready answer, usually helping someone is a general solution to fulfillment.

Case closed.  Throw away Sartre now.
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