15th June 1999 : Bob Cooper
THE MEANING OF LIFE ? A RESPONSE TO GRAHAM DARE
Graham Dare's (C96/6) offered 'three meanings of life' are not meanings at all, but purposes, and not even secondary purposes.
To discover the possible, prime purpose of life might lead to the discovery of meaning but I doubt it would ever be conclusive.
If the secondary purposes of life is to explore all possible means of existence, and to reach the highest level of consciousness in each case, as appears, the prime purpose of life must be to create a God-like being, or to return to God or to being God. Has God 'fallen' and is 'climbing' back ? Are gods self-created or self-recreated through their own creations ?
Is this the meaning of life? That a god must be built ? Or should that be a supergod ?
In our time/space existence this is cart before horse, true, but only we need time and space co-ordinates. A supergod would not.
But as the editor said, why should there be a meaning to life, at least as far as we are concerned ? Wherever we are going we are not there yet. We don’t even know where we are. Perhaps it is too soon to discern meaning.
Bob Cooper