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It is attractive to think that we each have a unique, transcendent, ultimate purpose in life. Unfortunately, this belief is both false and harmful.

This page is outdated. The text below is from the first, 2007 draft of Meaningness . My understanding of the material has changed since then, and the style I write in too. Someday I would like to rewrite this; but I hope the 2007 version may be adequate for now. Mission is the confused stance that only “ higher ” purposes are meaningful. As an attempt to reconcile eternalism and nihilism —with an emphasis on eternalism—mission tries to overcome the obstacles to eternalism and the defects of nihilism. The obstacles to eternalism are the obviousness of nebulosity and meaningness, and the necessi

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