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I almost know that there isn't any explanation to why we're here. Yet, I'm intrigued by myths and fantasies...ficiton. I'd like to know that there is a purpose, a purpose for everything, for everyone, for each individual. I think there might be something else, were we can trascend while we're here or when we die. Anyone else feel this?
There is no purpose and when you die your gone sorry to break the news it isn't a very happy ending for any of us.
Take it easy on the narcotics mate.So you need a higher purpose for you to feel your life is validated.?
Live life my friend and stop wasting precious oxygen thinking about useless irrelevant things.Find that purpose within yourself life is what you make it...just ask Obama or your local gazzette vendor.Cher'
Life has no purpose. We are all merely the result of colliding reproductive cells, nothing more. There are billions of us. We grow, we deteriorate and eventually perish and decompose.
Absolutely Steve-o.
But does civilization have a purpose? In a sense, it is simply a stage upon which various cultures vie for supremacy. But this competition has produced technological advancements at an ever accelerating rate. Smarter humans (like you, me, CountessDouche, et all) can engineer proto-cellular life forms for extra-planetary environments. Is our thousand year quest to break the bonds of the solar gravity simply our participation in an inter-galactic competition among alien civilizations to fertilize unknown worlds with life?
Dude, please respond. You start these intriguing discussions, and then you walk away. I mean, what the fuck? Mensa groups don't work well with conversational dynamics like that.
This is Steve. A homosexual alcoholic fool is disliking all my comments, so I've switched accounts.
I agree with most of what you're saying. I personally think we have to create purpose in life, and only a small minority of humankind is capable of striving towards said purpose. Most of us go about our days working, taking our kids to school, watching TV, eating dinner and so on. Meanwhile, an elite percentage of our species is working to understand the world and beyond. It would be good for humanity to devote itself towards this first, then focus on self-sustainability and personal satisfaction. It disappoints me how our species spends most of its time blasting cities apart and shooting each other to pieces instead of uniting to focus on the advancement of knowledge and science.
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Ummm, yeh. Throughout the centuries, enlightenment, technological advancements, and scientific break throughs have been done by motivated highly intelligent people at the top of the social pyramid. If our social system provides a fast track to move intelligent kids into graduate schools, the rate of progress should accelerate. Further down the pyramid, plebeians are needed to drive taxis, make french fries, install plumbing and mow golf courses.
I agree with you on self-sustainability and personal satisfaction. This raises the issue of the optimal base to height of the pyramid. At the bottom, people are too dumb to use birth control when they fuck. Perhaps a more humane version of HIV could thin their ranks.
Secondly, the expression of human ego thru military aggression is counter-productive at best. In the jungles of Africa, the damage to civilization from this aggression is minimal. Military force multipliers are a nice driver of technological advancement, but we need political restraint at the top.
The exponential proliferation of disease, pestilence, population and war need to be managed. Anyway, 7 billion people draining resources without regard to our thin atmosphere is a big problem. Looking out past the third millennium, I only see doom.
"A homosexual alcoholic fool is disliking all my comments, so I've switched accounts."
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- Imbecile
It's natural to feel this way. I recommend reading Thomas Nagel's essay on this. Titled like: "The Absurd"
https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf
Sit with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth.
I can't say I feel as you do.
I have spent my life adventuring, experiencing feelings and having fun. That's why we are here, IMO. No grand scheme of things. No omniscient beings guiding us or even destiny. Just each and every moment of life as an opportunity to make the very best out it.