At 23:50:02 PST on 06-21-96, EF wrote:

>Question on how to define meaningful and meaningless, and what is the
>meaning of the particular stone in "The myth of Sisyphos".

I don't know how to define the particular stone in "The Myth of Sisyphus"
--sorry. Defining what is meaningful and what is meaningless is interesting,
though. I believe, and I think SK would back me up (though I resolved
never to put my clay words into SK's brilliant pen), that God has endowed
everything with a purpose, and God's purpose gives the world meaning--
that is, the creation of this reality has some meaning for God, and
since God created us, for us as well. "Meaninglessness" would be the
absence of such a concept of universal, absolute purpose (though, again,
I use the terms of universal and absolute in a general sense; I think
God has given us each unique purposes as part of the universal purpose;
this is somewhat paradoxical, and I think SK would begin to disagree with me
here based on "Works of Love"). Sorry I don't define my terms; it's a
bad habit in a philosophical conversation.