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Subject: Re: ... neither value nor meaning - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 01:29:05 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Nov 13 12:59:00 1983

Why is it that people feel that existence requires some absolute "meaning?"
To the extent that the notion makes any sense, the meaning of my life is a
purely local quality (in the topological sense). (I guess I used to sit around
and contemplate the heat death of the universe or the sun going red giant
like everybody else, but eventually I decided that there were better things to
worry about. If others want to posit a God to make them feel that there is
a reason to live, that's their business.)

					James Jones