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Ask HN: What is the ultimate meaning of life?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the ultimate meaning of life?

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Post by stakkur »

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

—Alan Watts

Re: Ask HN: What is the ultimate meaning of life?

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Post by achillesheels »

muzani wrote: post #20
achillesheels wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean a self-certain integral circular motion which presupposes necessary agreement with itself (its relation to every position of its continuum of movement) and therefore has the potential for mechanical extension of its unity or "oneness" with other harmonies - in other words, positively amplified resonance.

Well, we know what harmonics are like. Harmonics of say, words/poetry, is when a conversation seems to mesh well and people are completing each other's thoughts to a certain rhythm. But what's anthropocentric harmony like?

I would claim your definition of harmonics is anthropocentric :)

Simply being, more human agreement is the goal of Nature. The more one can promote it, the better one’s reality will be - because it is truly living. It breeds a sense of self-certainty about one’s movement which ends the originally query.

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