Meaning
Meaning…
- Sesame Street Podcast
- Money, Mission and Meaning: Passion at Work, Purpose at Play
- “The Hunger for Depth and Meaning” Talks on Christian Meditation
- Compass (ABC TV)
- The Meaning of Life… dougnuts
- Don’t Waste Your Life (Desiring God)
- Inside CNET Labs
- CAG Foreplay
- APM: Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett
- Meaning of Words on The Moncriesff Show on Newstalk 106-108 FM
- Living Dialogues: Thought-Leaders in Transforming Ourselves…
- Purpose-Centered Life: A Plan for Authentic Living
- Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day
- Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War
- Mysticism, Meaning and Life: Classic Sinai Podcast (Judaism)
- Inner Perspectives: Guideposts for the Spiritual Journey
- Free Talk Live (News & Politics)
- whollyscrap’s Podcast (TV & Film)
- Birth Download (Health)
- The Secret Beyond “The Law of Attraction”
- Shaman Drums, The Rhythm and Sound of Healing
- Afternoon Thoughts from IamACIM.com (A Course In Miracles)
- Tajweedpodcast’s Podcast (Islam)
- The New Man: Beyond The Macho Jerk
- The Meeting House Videocast (Christianity)
- A Course in Miracles (ACIM) – Truly ‘Extreme’ Spirituality
- Jabez: Conceived in Pain, Delivery in Victory (Literature)
The first page of podcast search results in the iTunes directory for the word ‘meaning.’ I guess best summarised as below.
- Literary/linguistic/educational/scientific meaning;
- Religious/spiritual/metaphysical/self-help/self-improvement ‘meaning’;
In short, the meanings we derive from things in our environment and the meanings we attribute to ourselves. And I suppose if I am being honest it is the latter that prompted the search in the first place. I’m sure you’re about as sick of hearing me bang on about this in this humble blog as I am sick of hitting my head against the table or the writing the wall. One of those… I forget which.
I guess what I’ve been wondering lately is… why do I even care? If this is all there is (and there’s a good chance it is), why should that bother me? If anything it is practically permission to go out and be completely hedonistic. Why not ‘live it up’ while we are indeed alive? I haven’t even studied philosophy at university, I don’t even have the academia to back up this kind of existential angst. Though perhaps therein lies the folly. Perhaps had I bothered studying philosophy I would have some sort of framework with which to hold these nagging feelings at bay.
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