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Edited by Mechetti:
1/8/2020 10:15:56 PM
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What are your thoughts on existence and its purpose?
As Simmons once asked, why are we here? Why was the human race blessed with consciousness? What is our purpose? What’s the point?
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Edited by One Shot Ted: 1/11/2020 5:38:52 AMHah! "Purpose." Right.
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8 RepliesTo give glory to God
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3 RepliesThere is no point. There is no purpose. Life is a hotel. Just passing through. Enjoy you're stay while you can.
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Edited by CastFeather495: 1/9/2020 2:56:22 AMThere is no cosmic purpose. However, in the words of Steven Pinker, in response to a similar question: In the very act of asking that question, you are seeking reasons for your convictions, and so you are committed to reason as the means to discover and justify what is important to you. And there are so many reasons to live! As a sentient being, you have the potential to flourish. You can refine your faculty of reason itself by learning and debating. You can seek explanations of the natural world through science, and insight into the human condition through the arts and humanities. You can make the most of your capacity for pleasure and satisfaction, which allowed your ancestors to thrive and thereby allowed you to exist. You can appreciate the beauty and richness of the natural and cultural world. As the heir to billions of years of life perpetuating itself, you can perpetuate life in turn. You have been endowed with a sense of sympathy—the ability to like, love, respect, help, and show kindness—and you can enjoy the gift of mutual benevolence with friends, family, and colleagues. And because reason tells you that none of this is particular to you, you have the responsibility to provide to others what you expect for yourself. You can foster the welfare of other sentient beings by enhancing life, health, knowledge, freedom, abundance, safety, beauty, and peace. History shows that when we sympathize with others and apply our ingenuity to improving the human condition, we can make progress in doing so, and you can help to continue that progress.
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Thinking about it is the fastest way to go insane because you’ll never get an answer
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9 RepliesThere is no purpose to us other than the purpose we choose for ourselves. Beyond that there’s nothing - just matter and energy interacting according to the whims of quantum mechanics. If a freak asteroid hadn’t wiped out the dinosaurs 60 million years ago then we would never of existed. Likewise one day the human race too will be gone. Eventually the tiny speck of dust we call planet earth will be consumed by our own unremarkable sun when it expands and dies. Maybe life will evolve somewhere else - maybe it won’t. Maybe something else beyond our imagination will arise from the random fluctuations of energy and matter in the universe. In the end though everything we’ve ever said or done will be rendered completely meaningless by the relentless onslaught of entropy as the universe continues it’s slow march towards inevitable heat death. [spoiler]Have a nice day. [/spoiler]
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1 ReplyThe answer to life the universe and everything is... [spoiler]42[/spoiler]
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5 Replies"God" and other-side dont like boredom. They both have the same problem, so they're teaming up to loop-hole a quantum barrier. Sexy infinity with no substance and stiff material with no concept. These [i]space things[/i] are exploring each other until there is no configuration left to consume.
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2 RepliesThe Universe/God/Ulimate Reality is trying to understand Itself. Sentience is part of that evolutionary process. Our Purpose is to evolve beyond our selfishness and biologically-driven obsession with individual survival and procreation to where we can see The Universe as it Truly Is. To stop being the flute player who obsesses about his or her own part to the exclusion of everything else.....to becoming a musician that hears the entire symphony, and is at peace with their part in the music. (Thanks for the metaphor, Tolkien) In Buddhism, this is called "Enlightenment" or "Awakening". What is the point? The end of the suffering brought on by the illusion of isolation and of material existence. A problem that---as one of my favorite sci-fi characters once said----[i]"You must **understand** your way out of." [/i]
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5 RepliesEdited by Speaker: 1/9/2020 1:04:00 PMI think grif said that not Simmons.
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2 Replies[quote]why are we here?[/quote] Just to suffer?
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All glory unto Duma!!
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To eat Wendy’s
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2 RepliesTo downvote
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I dont know and I dont care. I am here so lets make the best of it.
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Our purpose is to stay hydrated by drinking water with a spoon
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There’s no point
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27 RepliesHow can humanity be so conceited as to believe they are the only species with consciousness? Also, how was Elvis able to have such great hair?
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To eat toothpaste and drink cold water immediately after.
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1 ReplyI believe in God. Quite simply life is the ultimate test for us to prove we can be better, and God expects most of us to fail. That is why there is suffering and the like here, but not in heaven, or why he is benevolent but puts us through this.
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7 RepliesOur purpose is no different to that of any life form. To continue the existence of our species. Sorry if you hoped for more but look on the bright side, we can have fun whilst doing it 😁
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Don’t know, don’t care. But I figure I might as well have fun with it before I go back to being not alive.
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1 ReplyI'm here to be the best. At whatever I do. To show that if anyone in this stupid place can make it, it's me.
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3 RepliesWe live because why not. It’s certainly more exciting than dying.
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I fart, therefore I exist.
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Yeah existence seems like a waste of effort tbh so I just don’t do it
