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Author Topic:   Are there any substitutes for having inner peace?
nwr
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Message 292 of 300 (328034)
07-01-2006 3:12 PM
Reply to: Message 288 by Faith
07-01-2006 2:10 PM


Re: possibly a useful distinction?
Your wanting to build a house is your subjective purpose or desire. But the actual building of the house is objective -- what the work of building aims to accomplish, what-it-is-for.
The people doing the actual building of the house are doing it for the purpose of earning income in their trade as builders. The builders will measure their success by how well it matches the architects specification, regardless of whether it is suitable as a domicile.
Even if you look to the builder's purpose, you still see subjectivity.

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nwr
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Message 296 of 300 (328051)
07-01-2006 4:40 PM
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07-01-2006 3:55 PM


Re: possibly a useful distinction?
Even if you look to the builder's purpose, you still see subjectivity.
You have to look at it from the point of view of the house.
The house has no point of view.
The people living in the house may have a point of view;
the cockroaches living there might have a different point of view;
the realtor, who sold them the house might have yet another point of view;
the mortgage holder might have another point of view;
The house, itself, has no point of view.

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