purpose and meaning 



The dodgy character in the movie kept talking about our meaning and our purpose. His own purpose was simple enough, to sell the movie, keep people going back to every sequel of it, notwithstanding the grandiloquent talk and a plot with more than a sieve... I am not sure that I believed, at any time in my adult life, that there was a 'purpose' to our life external to it. Not that i really rejected the notion of it unexamined and unopened, I used to say that I thought our purpose in the world, if any, was learning as much as we could and expand in all the directions possible to us. It was perhaps a little metaphysical and superstitious but it was also a kind of elected purpose, not one given by a divinity or by fate. But of course the world is infinitely larger (and smaller) than us. We can only measure it in respect of ourselves. Our circumstance may well blind us to much of its nature and workings which may well be forever beyond our reach or understanding. And yet...
 

Posted: Thu - November 13, 2003 at 04:29 PM          

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