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The pressures of family, job, and lack of ambition have conspired

to keep me offline during Gonzales entire term. I have not been

dead though, and continue to grow in heart and mind. With the

changing of the guard at the top cop office, It would seem

to be a natural place to jump back into the fire.

First, As I watched the mob attack and overcome even the

apologetic public persons, my attitude has changed to one

of asking forgiveness only in the privacy of the confessional.

Second, My weakness of dissecting everything down to the

subatomic level often halts the putting down of markers along

the way. this stops today. If my judgments appear half-baked,

on some issue or another, drop me a line, we can cook it a few

more minutes for that metaphysically perfect cookie.

And on the problem I have been working on even from last year,

that is , how does one define "purpose" ?, how does it come about?,

What are the rules?. Can we go and get some of it?, is there more or

less in this or that ? Are there larger and smaller purposes?

Is purpose a physical thing like a hammer or nail one can get and use?

As you might have guessed, this question is not being ask the first

time, and moving thru Aristotle, Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Sellers,

Mohanty, Sokolowski, Lask, McDowell, and even Crowell, or in a

different vein, Rick Warren, one might be confused or even derailed

on the way to finding this answer. We already know purpose exists,

you can see it everywhere. Like a US Supreme court justice said

"I can't define it, but I know it when I see it" speaking on another subject.

So here goes, I must needs be first to put this into context in order to

begin any rational definition. A distinction must be made between

speaking of the purpose for a physical (natural) thing and that of the

ethical (free will) . I am only looking to define the purpose of living and

as such, must leave aside questions of "why is the rock". Can one know

a definition of the purpose of life, is there more than one ? Does it change?

The answer is yes we can know our purpose in life, there is only one,

it never changes. I found the answer to my question about purpose,

even after much research, in what I already knew. The problem of putting

this into words still is burdensome for me, so I am reduced to quoting others.

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose

under the heaven"

This is not my final word on the purpose of life. Dave 8-)