Our Purpose In Life

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I've always wondered why we are here, and what is our purpose.

I wanna keep my ideas simple and short.

Our "main" purpose in life, is to reproduce and have our species go on.
Our purpose as humans, is to have offspring and raise them well enough to have offspring of their own.
After all, we are animals.

We are here because our parents had sex and created us and so on.
That is our purpose. That's how we evolve. What other purpose could there be?

People try to tell me that living life to the fullest, and being a nice person is our purpose in life.
Those could be personal goals and all, but what will that accomplish 100 years from now, 200 years, 1000 years from now.

If your ancestors from 1000 years ago did not have any kids, you would not exist as we know it today.

Those are my thoughts ^.^

[Rhythm]

If you wanted to strip the human experience of the sense of the numinous then yeah. It's pretty fair to state that the purpose of a living creature is as a carrier for code. It just so happens that our code is arranged in such a way as to make this particular interpretation less than satisfying.

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There is more to life than just this one role to carry our code.
But when people ask what is our main purpose in life or what is the purpose in life.
It is to create offspring.

Sure happiness and the pursuit of living life to the fullest is great.
But that doesn't continue the existence of a species.

I will feel very satisfied when I have my first child.
From then on, each child and grand child until I die will be a greater satisfaction,
That I have done my purpose in life.

[Rhythm]

Yep, satisfaction for the 1st, regret at the 4th. lol.

[Welsh cake]

(31st August 2011 23:42)Loading Please Wait Wrote:  Our "main" purpose in life, is to reproduce and have our species go on.
Our purpose as humans, is to have offspring and raise them well enough to have offspring of their own.
After all, we are animals.

Except I don't ever intend to have children. There are too many genetic diseases I've inherited, I am concerned about them becoming dominant in any innocent children I drag into existence. Not to mention there are too many people being born as we speak and the public healthcare in this country is utterly abysmal, no one looks after you here. I'm still waiting for a stomach operation for crying out loud. The analogy that we *must* reproduce because we're animals has shortcomings. If you take it literally, then you're basically asserting my life by your standards is "meaningless", which is demonstrably false, I'm there for family and friends - I make my own purpose for myself. ^^

Quote:We are here because our parents had sex and created us and so on.

Correct, but the circumstances of one's life or how they were born or created is irrelevant. Its what you choose to do with the gift of life that truly determines who you are.

Should I feel ashamed that I just quoted that, no bastardised that quote, from a Pokemon movie? Ugh... >.>

Quote:People try to tell me that living life to the fullest, and being a nice person is our purpose in life. Those could be personal goals and all, but what will that accomplish 100 years from now, 200 years, 1000 years from now.

You would've improved, or at least contributed to, enhancing the quality of life for generations to come. We're a cooperative social species. That's how we've survived up until now. We don't last very long if we start behaving like dicks towards each other continually.

Quote:If your ancestors from 1000 years ago did not have any kids, you would not exist as we know it today.

Correct.

(1st September 2011 00:37)Rhythm Wrote:  It's pretty fair to state that the purpose of a living creature is as a carrier for code.

See my response to Loading Please Wait. ^

[padraic]

Quote:Except I don't ever intend to have children.

Same here: I'm 63 and had a vasectomy at 40.


I have never been able to discover a reason or purpose for life and could not care less.


We humans are just another species, and seem to be the only one which arrogantly believes it matters. IF there is a purpose to life,it is itself. Life was here eons before we came,and will be here eons after we're gone and the planet has shrugged of the damage we caused.Then our sun will die and so will all life on this planet, We are irrelevant,as is any given species,as is the earth itself, ultimately..

[bozo]

We are here but there is no reason why we are here for any purpose.

[KichigaiNeko]

Live life to the best of your abilities and enjoy yourself..... why spend a lifetime worrying about a vicious skydaddy??

[Zen Badger]

Sex, Alcohol and Motorbikes.

Working for me

[Violet Lilly Blossom]

I do not know what the purpose of your avatar is... but it does seriously annoy me

I have no such purpose to reproduce. I am not an animal in anything more than a classification... just as someone who goes to the libertarian party for only the cake is not a libertarian in anything more than they happen to be in the room.

"We" are here because we are lucky. Or was that unlucky? I can never tell. Other purposes are as numerous as your understanding of their relevance, and are subjective... purpose itself being an individual's value statement.

Some of us really don't give a shit about humanity's future (ie: me). Fuck accomplishment for others: I live for me, and me alone. And if I don't like it: I will die, by my own hand if it is not bound.

These are my thoughts. You will notice they are different from yours. That is because of a fun little thing called 'subjectivity', and is why all discussions on 'the meaning of life' are complete and utter crock.