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    Objective meaning in life does not require immortality — Carmelics
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    Objective meaning in life does not require immortality

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    • 1.Increasing the balance of objective value (good) to disvalue (evil) can make a real difference in the world even without immortality
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    • 2.The actions of Lincoln made the world better than it would have been absent those actions
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    • 3.The achievement of good works, or the mitigation of suffering and pain, can result in an objective positive difference from one's actions
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    This argument rests on several controversial assumptions. For one, the argument assumes that a divine conferral of purpose is necessary for one’s life to have meaning and purpose. Presumably, the idea is that a self-conferral of purpose would be arbitrary and limited by human ignorance or uncertainty as to what is genuinely worthwhile. A conferral by God, however, would not be arbitrary as God would confer only a purpose that is objectively worthwhile. Another assumption is that objective meanin
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