Our purpose, and why we exist?

[thesummerqueen]

But I tend to think of food as a poo I havent had yet.

Only if it involves corn or pumpkin...

And oddly, this potty humor brings me back to the original topic (sorta)...I suddenly remembered something from a biography on Ben Franklin that I was reading some time back... "The First American" by H.W. Brands. He mentioned that Franklin was influenced (not really for the good) by the prominent figure Cotton Mather who encouraged people to think holy thoughts even while taking care of bathroom business...ostensibly because such an activity was base and animal, and humans needed to try and escape such things. Pretty sure that's the gist - it's been a while since I read it and the book is somewhere in one of six boxes filled with books in the attic. I'll have to pull it out again.

Okay maybe it had nothing to do with the topic, but I think it's fair to say that religion gives rise to some crazy-ass suggestions. We're here. We eat. We poop. The only meaning there is in life is the one we create for ourselves.

We all keep quoting Carlin, here's one I like to remember in case I need perspective: "Life is NOT that difficult. You get up, you go to work, eat three meals a day, take one good shit and you go to bed!" Anything else we do in the meantime is up to us.

Anyway, now that I've proved the completely nonconstructive and random nature of my thoughts...