Can you elaborate on the following: the question of life being purposeful or purposeless is a spiritualist/ materialist dichotomy which has no existence in actuality?
RICHARD: The very notion of purpose presupposes a purposer a person who purposes something; esp. a person who has a particular object or intention (Oxford Dictionary) and the entire purposeful/ purposeless debate betwixt spiritualists and materialists revolves around spiritualists contending that their god/ goddess (an immaterial creative being, force, or energy, by whatever name) has a purpose for creating/ manifesting the universe and that life without such a timeless and spaceless and formless entity in it means that everything is purposeless … which, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means done or made without purpose or design; having no purpose, plan, or aim. The direct experience of infinitude a boundless expanse; an unlimited time (Oxford Dictionary) here in this actual world renders both notions null and void … it is a spiritualist/ materialist dichotomy which has no existence in actuality. RESPONDENT: I can clearly and vividly remember a few PCEs and I also remember thi
