RE: What is our purpose here on earth?
February 28, 2016 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2016 at 2:00 pm by Cyberman.)
...Yes?
He doesn't stop being a homo sapiens sapiens, a social animal species, even if he decides to live the hermit life. I'm sure we can go on all day pulling up specific exceptions to and examples fitting the model, but it's a fruitless point-scoring game. That's why I used the airquotes aroiund the word 'purpose'; it's a very loose human construct to explain - or excuse - the reasons why we do the things we do.
He doesn't stop being a homo sapiens sapiens, a social animal species, even if he decides to live the hermit life. I'm sure we can go on all day pulling up specific exceptions to and examples fitting the model, but it's a fruitless point-scoring game. That's why I used the airquotes aroiund the word 'purpose'; it's a very loose human construct to explain - or excuse - the reasons why we do the things we do.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
