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From: vaissier@efrei.fr (Amaury de la Vaissiere)
Subject: Re: Reality...??? Purpose of Life...???
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Richard Roose wrote:

>Now! Would anyone like to take a crack at defining the purpose of Life?
>And how it relates to your concept of reality.

I would define a purpose as a _goal_ and Life as _an organisation that tries
to maintain itself_. With those two definitions, the objective purpose of Life 
is simply: to live (like said DeWayne Filppi).


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Reality or "the existent" is more difficult to define. I would say that
it is the "non-imaginary" part of the "possible". This definition is
for the moment (I mean with our level of awareness). In the future, we
migth find out that the "imaginary", the "non-imaginary" and the "possible"
are one: reality.

So the purpose(s) of reality is for me a bigger question or problem than
life's purpose. But is there any problem or question at all? All these 
questions are properly human and may not be universal (like the (general)
human concept of time that is not true).





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Cathbad wrote:

>I would argue that the purpose of life is to find peace within
>yourself. [..]

It depends on your definition of life. If you take mine, for example,
then I agree in the sense that you find peace when you are shure to maintain
yourself.

But I know it isn't what you meant. So I am asking you: what is your 
definition of life?


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>[..] So we have a mind with limited awareness, compared to the
>universal, spiritual awareness of the soul.  The two are nessisarily in
>conflict then, because there are two different world-views.  To find
>peace within, this difference must be rectified.  One or the other must
>be surpressed (science often surpresses the spiritual awareness, because
>it can't be proven empiricly) or the mind must be risen to the level of
>the soul.

I understand that two different world-views are opposed (by definition)
but why should they enter in conflict? To be in conflict it is also
necessary to have goals and those goals must be opposed. So what is
the soul's goal and the mind's goal?

Furthermore, to be in conflict means interactions, and (in my opinion)
interactions can be observed ("proved empiricly").




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