God and Meaning
For there to be meaning of life, you would need someone or something to have meant it. God for example, God must have had a meaning of putting us here, hence, the meaning of life.
Your statements confuse me. First, since when does meaning need to be imputed by an external agency? Why does that external agency need to be God? Why, if you want to posit God, does meaning relate to God? And what is meaning anyway? If we take the existential definition by which you mean purpose, intentionality, and significance, then I would suggest that meaning is never imputed at all-- it's derived or achieved by will or the abdication of will.
Your statements confuse me. First, since when does meaning need to be imputed by an external agency? Why does that external agency need to be God? Why, if you want to posit God, does meaning relate to God? And what is meaning anyway? If we take the existential definition by which you mean purpose, intentionality, and significance, then I would suggest that meaning is never imputed at all-- it's derived or achieved by will or the abdication of will.
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