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Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Donald was right
Donald is technically correct but uninsightful. Why does understanding the mechanism of a thing cheapen it? My thoughts and feelings are chemicals and electrical impulses, yes. That doesn't make them less real. It's how they work.

Likewise it's true that the universe lacks meaning, because meaning or a lack of it is a thing assigned by human minds. The universe can't have intrinsic meaning, but it's not really a negative lack of meaning either, its value isn't true or or false but null. We make meaning. The universe doesn't, and couldn't, and it's not deficient for that.

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Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
I feel like the burden of proof would be on the claim that souls and this whole mechanism and system of reincarnation exists. It could! There's just no evidence it does, and odds are low any arbitrary idea like this would just happen to be true.

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