(November 4, 2014 at 2:12 pm)LostDays Wrote: I had another thread I was writing in that drifted off onto this topic so I am going to start a new thread here.
What do you believe is the point to our existence? Is there one? Is the only function for Emotion survival? Really curious to know what everyone thinks.
Also has anyone heard of or read 'Why does the World exist?' by Jim Holt? (Curious to know!)
Have a great day everyone!
It's a great question, but I think it's a better question to ask is there a will to live in ANY living being. Also why does there seem to be a group consciousness geared towards the continuation of life?
I think about it as a universe which seems overwhelmingly empty of any meaning, morals, values, feelings. Then you have a tiny rock full of movement, thought, values, individual emotions, competition and so on and so on.
The answer might coincide with how did the first life come into being.
But talking about human feelings towards their own lives and the lives of other people around them, I think it's basically down to evolution, it's simply because we put so much meaning and importance on our lives that's why we're still here.
It's like a nervous system, it's important for survival but sometimes you wish it wasn't as powerful as it is, like if you have a bad wisdom tooth.
Sometimes I wish wasn't as scared as death as I am and I didn't love life as much as I do because death is inevitable.
But I inherited these things from the successful living, breeders of the past just like we all did.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
