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Only for brain-washing and main-streaming. Only philosophers with an optimistic slant will practice this, and will bully their patients by rejecting their pessimism out of hand... Much like their psychology counterparts reject depressive realism, and assume malady, which must be corrected.

Melchior wrote:Why would anyone want to read this crap? Read Thomas Jefferson instead.

I don't know why anyone would want to read your post either....

Not certain I quite understand what is being asked, but I do agree with Peter Wessel Zapffe that self-consciousness, or self-awareness, in humankind, is supernatural, in the sense that it separates us from the natural. Have you read Zapffe?

Mockery is more effective when the link used to mock is... Oh, how shall we say?... Working?

Ever been unconscious? I have. And i lost my identity then. I gained it back, sure, but when I go next, I expect the same nothingness... A forever fugue state.

On a lighter note, have you ever seen a dead man in need of an identification card? Well, there you go, then.

I'm not a philosopher by by training or other. Actually, I find it all irrelevant. I'm just here because I wanted to give my view on the meaning of life contest, and ended up signing up here by accident... So much for meaning, yes? :/ While I am here, I may as well thrill everyone with the knowledge...

All I know about The Lion King is the inane song about the circle of life, and that any truly sane person should reject doing anything which is circular in nature.

There is none, except in the personal. Otherwise you would not be holding this contest after millennia of civilization with over 100 billion of us trying to answer it. It is all just continuing to continue, generation after generation, until we are no more. There are no awards ceremonies at the end ...