It would seem that most, not all, posters are still assuming some type of "purpose" to life. A 'purpose' requires intent and 'intent' requires an 'intender'. We can create a purpose for 'our life' or we can allow others to do so, but life, in and of itself, has no purpose.
Let us start with the very first lifeform. Somewhere in our universe a lightning bolt hits some gooey pond of protein and voila, the first lifeform begins. Unless there is purpose at this point, how can there be purpose now? We are just an evolution of the first life without purpose at all.
If we are to assume a purpose then we must ask what the intent was and what the intender was. It was not a god, so was it the lightning bolt? We can create our own 'purpose', which is purely subjective, but we cannot have an 'objective' purpose without a reason or intent.
Let us start with the very first lifeform. Somewhere in our universe a lightning bolt hits some gooey pond of protein and voila, the first lifeform begins. Unless there is purpose at this point, how can there be purpose now? We are just an evolution of the first life without purpose at all.
If we are to assume a purpose then we must ask what the intent was and what the intender was. It was not a god, so was it the lightning bolt? We can create our own 'purpose', which is purely subjective, but we cannot have an 'objective' purpose without a reason or intent.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
