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 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:52 am
There is no objective purpose to life, it is purposeless and ridiculous.
We can only select for ourselves a purpose. Or not. It doesn't really matter.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:54 am
Cria I believe that as part of nature our goal in life is to reproduce and insure the survival of our species. This is what every other species does, and I don’t think humans are exempt from that.
It is not the purpose though, it is not objective.
If it were, insterile people would have valueless lives and we would be morally free to humanely kill them all.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:58 am
Midasha Wait -- I understand now... We can only theroize about what the ultamite goal of life is during our time on earth, because we still don't understand what happens after death, and death is a part of life. Anyone else follow me on this? sweatdrop
Are we unable to decide what television channel to watch because the television hasn't broken yet?
I mean, what?
gonk
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:03 am
ImNotaFashionStatment I think that it is happyness(sic)...
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:08 am
Musubi P. Happines?? That's just another impulse in your brain. The ultimate goal of life is to be an eficient worker, and to acomplish something. That's at least mine goal. There is not set goal for life. I know it would be all nead and ok, if we wouldn't have to chouse anything, but that's just how it goes. No one will give you a meaning for your live for nothing. Not even a god.
It would surely detract from the ability of an individual to be more than that?
(And a God, by virtue of being such, would almost certainly be able to give people an objective purpose.)
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:10 am
Aerten the ultimate goal in life? to live.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:13 am
Trumpster I believe the ultimate goal of life is to be remembered for who you were. If people remember you after you're gone then you have achieved something even if it's something simple like being a good friend to a few select people. How you achieve this goal and how you want to be remembered is your choice and so this changes almost nothing in life. Most will still continue on their natural courses and be remembered for whatever they do well at. I personally want to be a good father and be remembered by my children who appreciate what I did for them. Considering I'm only 18, I have a long way to go but I'm already preparing for my future. I already have a tightly knit group of friends who will remember me for a long time and I'll still be able to keep in touch after I leave college this year. Everything else in life is fleeting as it will leave you when you die. Your happiness is no longer important, material wealth will go to your relatives if you have any and all knowledge will go with you to the grave and never be shared.
I like it, but I don't see it as any sort of supreme purpose. Hitler is remembered, but it doesn't justify the ideas he championed or the actions he sparked.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:15 am
Starlock Interesting bit about being remembered. I have this little hypothesis that a person can't reincarnate until no other creature knows of them within its memory. Sucks to be famous, from that standpoint (chuckles) but it is, after all, only an idea... nonverifiable at that.
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