Purpose of life?
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- Truthhunter
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If that were to be true, why does "life" cling to stay alive? With such logic, I don't see any "reason" (double entendre) that we shouldn't pick a random date in a calendar for a global "ecstasy party" culminated with a blissful "Good Bye World" of "fireworks" of mutually assured nuclear self annihilation.Truthhunter wrote:Logically I can only agree with existential nihilism. There is no data to support the notion that life has any purpose or meaning.
Does this count as "data"?
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Because the life that didn't cling to stay alive died. And the life that did cling to stay alive passed on the tendency to cling to stay alive to its offspring. But you know that.If that were to be true, why does "life" cling to stay alive?
Maybe a past civilisation did just that? And that's why they're not here now. We are descended from a long line of creatures who did not do that.With such logic, I don't see any "reason" (double entendre) that we shouldn't pick a random date in a calendar for a global "ecstasy party" culminated with a blissful "Good Bye World" of "fireworks" of mutually assured nuclear self annihilation.
The reason why you don't want to do it is because your parents didn't.
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The question at hand Steve, is whether there is a "Purpose of life?"
If we claim that there is no purpose, then it doesn't matter what we do because everything is "meaningless" and "purposeless" and we'll all die anyway sooner or later. Therefore, with such logic, there is no "reason" for any laws or any type of system of cooperation. Since we're "rational" beings capable of understanding that we're just a "random" occurrence in the universe, without any purpose, then it shouldn't matter what we do. Yet, we act "irrationally" in the social organization, as if there is some purpose. So, either we are really irrational beings or there is some purpose.
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If we take the view that purpose is something that we choose to create for ourselves and is not something that we inherit from the wider universe then the only question is: can such purpose in beings such as ourselves emerge from a universe in which it didn't pre-exist? The answer to the question of why we choose to carry on living and doing things in a universe which doesn't act like a big person (with purpose) is that we have our own purposes to occupy us.
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I have said a couple of times that individual man is created enshrined with his existential make-up, which drives all that he does. It governs all aspect of his life, it injects thoughts into his mind and drives his intelligence. The eventual essence is to unlearn the fallacies of this world and realize that although things (man, plants, and even heavenly bodies) appear different, they share similar primordial basis and purpose. This might take more than a lifetime.
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