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Old Feb 22nd, 2007, 01:11 AM       
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Originally Posted by kahljorn View Post
How are memories, narrative stories, histories and future aspirations meaningful? Objectively and truthfully, they are meaningless.
And how are they objective? My entire point (and yours) is that meaning is necessarily subjective, and what we do over the course of our lives creates that meaning.

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That's what sethomas was talking about when he said existence proceeds essence. Existence proceeds meaning is pretty similar ... It's also a statement that meaning only exists subjectively.
Well, exactly.
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