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Why life has no "purpose?"

It's more obvious than you'd think...

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JOHN BAILIFF
Jun 28, 2025
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  • “Purpose” means “intentional” or some equivalent, which is to say: that for which something is done

  • Consequentially, it means that what is done is done for the sake of something else, where the “something else” is an outcome

  • I think my oldest son (now 67) was 13 when he asked me one evening, just before going to sleep, “Dad, if I died tomorrow, would you …

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