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To: metmom

Finally somebody nailes it! At least you got as close as anybody thus far.

The fact of the matter is that the question posed, given the axiomatic presupposition, is itself immaterial and the answer to the question posed is irrelevent.

Pointless existance taken to its logical conclusion can only result in nihilism. Nihilism breeds contempt, and ultimately despair, in that one’s own contempt is pointless.

On the other hand, an inherent and fundemental philosophical attitude that there is meaning and direction to the universe, all the things in it, and their interactions would have a tendency to instill hope. Hope that is that things can get better, and that perhaps this is not it, i.e., all that there is.

The difference between the two would intrinsicly be that of a value judgement. However, given the axiomatic presupposition, neither position would have any value whatsoever, let alone one having greater value than the other.


99 posted on 07/14/2007 1:33:57 PM PDT by raygun (Assuming that martians are either red, or invisible, which color martian is best?)
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To: raygun
"The difference between the two would intrinsicly be that of a value judgement. However, given the axiomatic presupposition, neither position would have any value whatsoever, let alone one having greater value than the other."

And yet another donkey starves to death with an equally good pile of hay on either side.
105 posted on 07/14/2007 1:41:48 PM PDT by ndt
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