Atheist vs Rabbi: Is Life Meaningless?

[@humanblip]

One of the best interviews you've done yet. Thank you!!

[@Mrm3t21]

I had the joy of learning from James at Keele University - wonderful to see him again

[@nick281972]

I think the question is, does life have meaning but no pupose, purpose but no meaning, both or none?

[@G36Jeff]

Give him 5 grams of mushrooms and see if he feels that way

[@khaderlander2429]

According to latest research on psychedelics, people on the last stage of terminal cancer, who have taken psilocybin had a radical change of views on facing death, they are no longer afraid of dying and even been of comfort to those around them. Death I suppose to them is not meaningless but meaningful, like socrates said death is migration of the soul from here to some other place.

[@Mrm3t21]

As a former student of his it's not impossible that he has already tried 😅 he was very friendly with our 'stoner corner' of the classroom

[@robi1885]

Gay

[@Max_Doubt]

What was the meaning or purpose of that first simple replicator 3.8 b.y. ago? I say none. Then evolution proceeded naturally. Life has no overarching meaning or purpose. If some cosmic catastrophe destroyed the Earth, the universe wouldn't blink. Yet life is full of meanings and purposes for the living.

[@LetsPhilosophize101]

In my opinion, there is no grand meaning or purpose to life. However, it does not mean that your life does not have meaning or purpose to you or to others that you have influenced. Therefore, I agree with your conclusion kind sir. P.S Jeffrey Dahmer is full of sh*t, you are accountable to society. That is the reason he is in jail.

[@garthreid7114]

When a comodo dragon, or a lion rip's another animal apart, while that animal is watching them do it. Is this what YOU'RE god created? You cannot deny that your creator of everything is not responsible for this savagery.

[@Nostalgic_4_Disaster]

Yes but if He exists, he made a distinction between humans and animals for a reason. We humans are directed with a moral compass, whereas animals are not. Animals are what we compare ourselves to to remind ourselves why and how to behave with empathy and respect for others.

[@jackforeman2742]

Yes and your stating the obvious that applies to everyone. How we think about what’s created all this is irrelevant to the fact that it is as it is, so your creator did create all this savagery wether you ascribe that to an intentional one or not. And, if it’s created incidentally and arbitrarily and without purpose, how then do you qualify it?

[@jackforeman2742]

A nihilistic is worried about the world being less philosophical? Why worry?