I don’t really disagree with what you actually say, here, but it seems rather inconsistent with the comment you link to, especially:
I don’t feel like I’m missing a purpose; on the contrary, it gives me the freedom to choose one, with no one to answer to about my choice.
I don’t think you have the freedom to choose one, if we’re using “purpose” to mean an overarching goal in life—that was essentially the point of my comment to which you replied here. My reason for posting in the first place in this thread was just to point out that either you have a purpose (a supergoal), or you have an inconsistent collection of goals, and neither of those possibilities admits of choosing your own purpose.
There seems to be this trap that the areligious are prone to falling into, of thinking that if there are no gods, we are free to rationally choose our own purpose, and it’s this idea that I’m arguing against.
I think you’re right that that’s inconsistent; I wrote the bit you quoted before reading (or thinking about) your point here. (The bit I linked to it for was in the second paragraph; I didn’t think about the conflict with the first.)
I don’t really disagree with what you actually say, here, but it seems rather inconsistent with the comment you link to, especially:
I don’t think you have the freedom to choose one, if we’re using “purpose” to mean an overarching goal in life—that was essentially the point of my comment to which you replied here. My reason for posting in the first place in this thread was just to point out that either you have a purpose (a supergoal), or you have an inconsistent collection of goals, and neither of those possibilities admits of choosing your own purpose.
There seems to be this trap that the areligious are prone to falling into, of thinking that if there are no gods, we are free to rationally choose our own purpose, and it’s this idea that I’m arguing against.
I think you’re right that that’s inconsistent; I wrote the bit you quoted before reading (or thinking about) your point here. (The bit I linked to it for was in the second paragraph; I didn’t think about the conflict with the first.)