Mind's Eye Re: Search for meaning

That said, these days, I find myself having about as much meaning as a strandbeest: http://www.strandbeest.com/ powered by the wind (spirit)

On Sunday, July 21, 2013 8:24:43 AM UTC-4, Molly wrote:
Those would be poignant questions.  I wonder if meaning isn't constructed over time.  Here in Detroit, there is more going on focused on invention and imaginative re-birth of a city dying in many respects.  What is dying is the old school ethnocentric politics and economics finally forced out and replaced by a more world-centric core organization that is facilitating the death of the old and the birth of the new simultaneously.  Once begun, is "old" meaning ever gone?  Or merely integrated into the new?

On Saturday, July 20, 2013 8:20:06 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
I operate with and without being attracted to know meaning.  Most stuff is so bland that I don't care and most people are interested in things that are boring beyond measure once I know what they are.  Even chimpanzees have experimented with sex more than humans, though not quite as we might generally mean the term.  I know how to go about such discoveries and am looking for more meaning in understanding evolution.  I've studied economics to assure myself that my rejection of it is sound (it's dull).  Mostly, I find human meaning derived from inadequate knowledge based in language hostile to inquiry.  Most human life is clearly meaningless and to do with habit and a few, often peevish emotions and desires, generally directly biological or cultural.  My questions would be about invention and imagination that allow new meaning.

On Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:25:18 UTC+1, RP Singh wrote:
People have been searching for meaning in life through the ages but there is no consensus. To me understanding the source of life and the realization of the inexorability of Fate and Destiny is meaning enough. I know that in this group as well as anywhere else there are different viewpoints and I am open to them all , and don't mind criticizing me folks , I like it and am not the least bothered!

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Mind's Eye Re: Search for meaning

Those would be poignant questions.  I wonder if meaning isn't constructed over time.  Here in Detroit, there is more going on focused on invention and imaginative re-birth of a city dying in many respects.  What is dying is the old school ethnocentric politics and economics finally forced out and replaced by a more world-centric core organization that is facilitating the death of the old and the birth of the new simultaneously.  Once begun, is "old" meaning ever gone?  Or merely integrated into the new?

On Saturday, July 20, 2013 8:20:06 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
I operate with and without being attracted to know meaning.  Most stuff is so bland that I don't care and most people are interested in things that are boring beyond measure once I know what they are.  Even chimpanzees have experimented with sex more than humans, though not quite as we might generally mean the term.  I know how to go about such discoveries and am looking for more meaning in understanding evolution.  I've studied economics to assure myself that my rejection of it is sound (it's dull).  Mostly, I find human meaning derived from inadequate knowledge based in language hostile to inquiry.  Most human life is clearly meaningless and to do with habit and a few, often peevish emotions and desires, generally directly biological or cultural.  My questions would be about invention and imagination that allow new meaning.

On Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:25:18 UTC+1, RP Singh wrote:
People have been searching for meaning in life through the ages but there is no consensus. To me understanding the source of life and the realization of the inexorability of Fate and Destiny is meaning enough. I know that in this group as well as anywhere else there are different viewpoints and I am open to them all , and don't mind criticizing me folks , I like it and am not the least bothered!

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Re: Mind's Eye Search for meaning

Taking a glance at the variety of cultural symbolism around the
grasshopper I had to laugh at the irony. It recently occurred to me that
I've been oriented toward building bridges and inspiration, possibly
neglecting the roads aspect, then this. Impeccable timing for such an
obscure little thing.

On 7/20/2013 10:48 AM, Allan H wrote:
> grasshopper?? very interesting,, very interesting..
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> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 6:38 AM, James <ashkashal@gmail.com
> <mailto:ashkashal@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Pondering the One messed with my demarcation compass again, I am
> having a hard time finding the exclusive or exception. If I am not
> so different from the amoeba might it be also another degree in
> difference from inanimate matter? From a consequentialist view I
> remembered having a repetitive dream as a child of jumping very
> highly and almost stopping in the air and then the ground rushing
> up, it took me this long to realize that I was a grasshopper.
> Funny consequences.
>
> Nice to hear you Andrew. :)
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> On 7/20/2013 6:30 AM, andrew vecsey wrote:
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> I totally agree. The reasons for life is to experience. The
> meaning of life is what we learn from that experience.
>
> On Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:01:48 PM UTC+2, Allan Heretic wrote:
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> the meaning of life is different for every one.. choose
> the path
> you want follow.. and follow it..
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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Gabby Thiede
> <gabb...@gmail.com <mailto:gabb...@gmail.com>
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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> People have been re/creating meaning through the ages,
> yes.
> And no, you should be bothered if no one is
> criticizing you
> for you'd deprive yourself of your chance of spiritual
> growth.
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> Am 18.07.2013 um 19:25 schrieb RP Singh
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> People have been searching for meaning in life
> through the
> ages but there is no consensus. To me
> understanding the
> source of life and the realization of the
> inexorability of
> Fate and Destiny is meaning enough. I know that in
> this group
> as well as anywhere else there are different
> viewpoints and I
> am open to them all , and don't mind criticizing
> me folks , I
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