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AlexandrianPhilosopher3 weeks, 5 days ago
This is in regard to your post on "Setting Aside the Crutches and Walking on my Own." I agree with you that atheists are ironically dogmatic. If one is to evaluate their existence free from cultural and emotional bias, motivated only by a stubborn desire for truth, than they must realize their own fallibility and act accordingly. If one devotes their time to study they will undergo paradigm shifts every day. For me personally, it is as if every day a dozen misconceptions are shattered, new horizons of thought and action are revealed, and I have come to grasp a higher level of truth and objectivity. If one is truly devoted to logic and reason above all else they will always be humble regarding both their perceived facts and subsequent value judgments.
As for meaning, I believe it most likely to be a construction of the human mind that is more often subjective than objective. If any of the gods exist (The Trinity, Yahweh, Shiva, Odin, Ormazd, Aten, Abraxas, Govinda, Konso) then it seems likely that their infinite consciousness created meaning first and then passed it on to man. Our meaning assignments may be in conflict with that of a god but it would still be a meaning assignment. A human being (and/or a society) may assign "meaning" to his or her own life, to life forms in general, to all of existence just as he/she may assign meaning to a written symbol, to a spoken word, or to a work of art.
As for Bertrand Russel, wasn't he referring to biological life in general? Certainly he felt his life had meaning (significance and/or purpose), otherwise he would have entered an existential depression.
