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Meaning and purpose
What is the meaning and purpose of life on Earth, in particularly human life?
I post this on a Friday so my esteemed forum-friends have the weekend to ruminate on this most fundamental question.
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Eat, shit, reproduce.
5 Stages of Grief:
Denial: The initial stage: "It can't be happening." Maniot is on top of me.
Anger: "Why ME? It's not fair?!" (either referring to God, oneself, or Maniot perceived, rightly or wrongly, as "responsible")
Bargaining: "Just let me stay to post another day Maniot, please."
Depression: "I'm so sad, why are you picking on me Maniot?"
Acceptance: "It's going to be OK." There is always Skadi.
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That may be considered a purpose - perpertuating the species - but does it have any meaning? And without meaning is human life nothing more than an empty shell?Originally Posted by Fernando Torrent
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Our purpose is to provide meaning to the universe. Without conscious witnesses, the universe itself is without meaning. If all possible universes happen, the one that can produce conscious beings is the one we inhabit.
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Life is its own purpose.
Man is God, God is Man, both grow within the other (insert universe for God if you so desire). The anthropic principle has a lot going for it and certainly provides meaning without recourse to a lot of metaphysical hot air.Originally Posted by Loddfafner
Our purpose is to provide meaning to the universe. Without conscious witnesses, the universe itself is without meaning.
I believe that legends and myth are largely made of
“truth”, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Indeed it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the “truth” one could still barely endure-or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
Nietzsche
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Heraclitus
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"The meaning of life is life. The end of life is the end" (comedian Corrado Guzzanti while playing a nihilist Catholic priest)
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That's right. The purpose of life is to evolve to a level where it is aware of itself, and from there on to develop and improve itself. The ultimate goal of the process is the universe itself as a conscious entity.
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By the way there's not much sense in looking for an 'objective meaning' of things. Meaning is something projected by subjects every time. Even if a specific meaning could be assigned by a peculiar supernatural entity (i.e. "God") to life or whatever else, this wouldn't prevent other subjects to project different meanings.
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many different takes on this,
i have heard it said humans are bacteria/a cancer we cover up the natural world and destroy it like a flesh eating virus and that is our purpose, to consume and destroy... thats one take, others say we are here out of love, God created us for love to have a creature who could love and be made in his image, maybe it is because God was lonely and needed something to worship him and comunicate with.
maybe there is no purpose maybe our advanced minds make us think there is purpose, maybe our purpose is to reproduce and then die going back into nature,
one thing is for certain there is purpose we have to find it though,
humans are creators, builders, makers , doers, we teach we learn we build, construct it is within us, however with all that said ...we are also destroyers.
all living beings must destroy and take the life of other beings plants, animals, micro bacteria if we want to live.
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