crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane) (02/03/84)
I think it is futile to seek to determine THE meaning of life. I think each person has a different meaning for his life and that meaning is whatever the person decided to attach to it. This leaves room for the "Christians", athiests, philosophers, etc. If somebody wants to believe God pulls all the strings in his life, then that's what happens for that person. If somebody else wants to believe he is totally in cnotrol of his own destiny, he's right too. If somebody else wants to believe life is a total mystery and there is no way of finding any meaning, then you can be sure he won't find any meaning. This view is not an attempt to comprimise differing points of view. It is simply a recognition that each person creates his own reality and within that realm can act as if everything he believes is true, because for him it is. The only trouble we get into is when one person starts enforcing his reality on others. E.g. "If you don't believe like I do or like so and so says, then such and such will happen to you."