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Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:00 AM

What is the meaning of life?

Terry Eagleton, the man who introduced millions to literary theory, tells us why George Bush is the ultimate postmodernist, how torture is wrong, and what "meaning" really means.

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  • Friday, June 15, 2007 08:06 AM

    'double taxing'

    Life is nothing but a mad man's dream. It is a dilemma which none can explain not can understand. All theories about life suffer from inadequacies and controversies. If torture is bad in one case it is the supreme goodness in other. The question is: Is a man answerable to God or the Supreme Being, who gave him life and hurled him into this world, for his life, for the acts of his existence? Were it so, don't you think God would be 'double taxing' his creation,,,,one for the Father's Sin and the other for spending his own life on earth? Life no more than a biological phenomena-Only you adopt a code of life of your choice to live it. Morals are relative conducts and vary from place to place, people to people, even of the same religion.

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