What did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to a scientist. From the age of 7, growing up amongst my father's WWI and WWII veteran friends, and during the Cuban missile crisis, I wanted to be able to contribute to eliminating... More »
I wanted to a scientist. From the age of 7, growing up amongst my father's WWI and WWII veteran friends, and during the Cuban missile crisis, I wanted to be able to contribute to eliminating... More »
Do I know why I am here? Yes - roughly. It seem that about 14 billion years ago a bubble of possibility started expanding rapidly - we call it the Big Bang. From that was... More »
I find meaning in many ways and from many sources. A lot of the meaning that I started with seems to have come from "culture" in the widest sense - things I was told by... More »
Probably fish. Flounder and eels for many years, but more recently all of those species that people value - snapper, blue cod, trevally, crayfish, paua (abalone), hoki, hake, roughy, dories, hapuku (groper), .... I was... More »
My purpose is what I choose. I acknowledge no ultimate external control over me, and I also acknowledge I am but one of billions of entities capable of determining their own purpose. I oppose strongly... More »
It seems to me that is something very personal for each of us, and is a function of circumstance, interpretation and choice; and for most of us it will involve an aspect of contribution to... More »
I choose many purposes. To be a great life. To be a contribution. To live life to the full. To love, to laugh, to create. To bring www.solnx.org into reality. To extend possibility. To BE... More »
I think the word love is used for several different things. One is a sort of brain chemistry thing that happens to us, rather than as a result of anything we do. This sort of... More »
At one level it helps me personally to meet my basic needs, and it extends the choices I have available. If I had a lot more, I could make a lot more happen - like... More »
What makes life meaningful is having the freedom and awareness to choose meaning. The default state that we all start with is to accept or reject the meanings we are born into - family, language,... More »