Meaning of life

Front matter
Connections List
 * Perception Arguments
 * Human Metaphysics
 * My Theo Model
 * Chief end of man
 * Mans role on earth
 * 4 questions
 * Happiness
 * Normal Metaphysics
 * Christian Hedonism
 * Good feeling words
 * Ethics
 * Pleasure
 * Raw theo objects
 * Goal/No meaning
 * God shaped hole
 * Fairy Tale
 * Healthy human
 * Story
 * Emo Carriage
 * Christ follower
 * Life
 * Nodal world model
 * Desire, need
 * Why so boring?
 * Worship

Definition of question
 * We already know what God made us for, the question is should we follow that?
 * Absolute morality, "should"

Scope
 * Whereas metaphysics deals with what is (see connection), the meaning of life deals with what should be... kindof.

Topics
 * Discussion
 * Options

Discussion

 * If God exists, he has the best chance of knowing the meaning of life.
 * 2 Pet 1:3 "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness."

Options or dim (reality is all of these combined)

 * 1) Be in sync with the universe
 * a) Just be in sync, no explanation needed
 * b) If ultimate reality is a central being, all others derive existence from such. It is then natural to assimilate.
 * c) Enjoy being carried along by Gods plan. Enjoy his advances. Conform to his advances. This is obedience and praise. Relationship. Conform to his plan for you. Reflect his nature (sync) as you were designed to do and imitate as sons, art.
 * 2) Choices. Ultimate meaning is self-referential or an axiom/without basis. Therefore an alternative to ultimate meaning is choices. It is a more naturalistic approach.
 * 3) Hedonism
 * It is possible that all people always act hedonistically. If nothing else, to alleviate guilt or obligation or a need for ultimate meaning.
 * It is possible, given proper knowledge, that hedonism results in relatively normal good behavior (at least in the case of Christianity).
 * a) Pure hedonism of lower pleasures. Differentiable from higher only by magnitude of premeditation I think.
 * b) Hedonism of higher pleasures, including God. This is the "politically correct" schema, I think, given that their knowledge is lacking / heart inhibited. In a redeemed form this is obedience or raw theo objects.
 * i) Changeable desires >> self conditioning for easy to tactically obtain. Gods gifts cannot be revoked >> desire God. Is psychology if knowledge lacking / heart inhibited. Desires are only changeable within a given spectrum, have different maximums, different achievability's and sustainable. God can change our desires.
 * ii) Unchangeable desire structures which >> Christian morality if knowledge.
 * 4) God creates ultimate meaning object(s). These are naturally of highest quality to a hedonist algorithm. Raw theo objects or sub-God platonic goods.
 * 5) Minon theology - find the biggest/meaningful thing in the universe and worship that. Assumes desires preprogrammed for this. My God can kick your god's butt. Glorify God westminster.
 * 6) God is going to glorify himself. There is nothing you can do to stop it. Might as well glorifying God is the highest value. That is my goal. The world will come into alignment with God. "I am inevitable"