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| Will's
Sojourn to find the meaning of life Journey along with Will. Discover what events in his life have brought him to this quest.. |
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| Will's writing, stories, and essays on the Meaning of life | |
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Letter writing campaign I have embarked on a letter writing campaign to many people of the world asking them what they think the meaning of life is. Read the letter, and read the list of people I have sent it to. See their responses, if I get any. As of August 2, 2005 there have been no responses. |
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Question in a bottle I will be sending out notes in a bottle. You can keep track of how that is going here. Have I received any replies? |
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| People What do people say the meaning of life is? Learn more here |
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| Books
What famous, and not so famous books are there about the meaning of life? |
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| Movies The meaning of life has been covered in movies. Learn more about them. |
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Comes Next Inquiries into what happens to us after we die. |
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| More the meaning of life has been explored in many different ways by many different people from music to poetry. Learn more about it here. |
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| Quotes
Read quotes about the meaning of life |
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Blog Here you can get Will's daily thoughts on his quest. |
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Bulletin Board Join the Google group. Here you can read what other people have to say about the meaning of life. You can also post your own thoughts. |
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Golden Rule: There is one very important rule that must be followed in this quest. Find out what it is. |
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| My Personal website where I have a lot of searching essays about my life and the meaning of it: 2007 - 2008 - 2009 | |
Book Review: The Seekers by Daniel Boorstin
I started into this book with high anticipation. Maybe it would lend me some insight into the meaning of life. After all it goes through some of the great people throughout history. People like Socrates, St Anthony, Aristotle, Kant, Descartes and more.
But I was surpised to see that none of these people really looked for the underlying meaning of existence. They all looked for making sense of life through the world that they lived in. True that all of these figures brought about change in the way the world thought about the world but not in the way that I seek.
some of the bios were interesting and some of them dragged on for too long. Boorstin explained the ups and downs of their lives, the political maneuverings, where they lived, what they did and so on. This all proved the premise that each persons viewpoint on life was shaped by the circumstances in which he lived. And that left out the underlying search for the real meaning of our existence.
I took extensive notes from this book so I could further look into some of them. Here are some snippets.
Socrates - The unexamined life is not worth living
Aristotle - Obsessed with the notion of the changeful world of motion and the unmoved mover (God)
St Anthony - The first hermit the the virtues of the simple life
Herodotus - the father of history, he changed myth into history
Descartes - What path of life should I follow?
John Locke - Sought a definitiion of teh limits of human knowledge and postulated that from experience all knowledge is derived
Hegel - The World Spirit
Hebrew Prophets - reached upward
The Greek Philosophers - Reached inward
The Wheel of Samsara - Life-death-life
The Spanish-Arabic Averroes - There is only a single mind in which all souls participate.
If you would like to help me in my quest to find the meaning of life consider buying this book. Thanks :)
