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Purpose? No idea what it is.
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RE: Purpose? No idea what it is.
(November 5, 2018 at 2:42 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(November 5, 2018 at 5:48 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: I hear theists saying that without God life has no purpose. The only part of this statement I disagree with is the without God part.
As far as I can see there is no purpose at all to our lives. I've heard atheists arguing with theists about the question of purpose saying things like "We make our own purpose" and "We don't need God for purpose".

I'm interested in what both atheists and theists think purpose is. Ultimately whatever you are doing, have done or are going to do is one big waste of time. I'm thinking about past generations in my family, I have no idea about who those people were, what they did, I know nothing.

I understand purpose as working toward something, so I could say my purpose is to go through life without hurting anyone or that my purpose is to have children and bring them up well and hopefully leave the world in better shape than I found it... But so what? Ultimately so what?

Even if by some ridiculous miracle God does exist and has a purpose in mind for us, what the hell can you possibly work toward for in eternity? Nothing, nothing at all.

I'm not depressed by the fact that I am pointless. I'm just thinking out loud.

I don’t get the whole, ‘subjective meaning as a motivator’ thing either, sadly. It’s not that I desire to stop living; it’s just hard to live with the utter pointlessness of life sometimes.  Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? 😏

Tea.

Smile

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 5, 2018 at 5:48 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by purplepurpose - November 5, 2018 at 6:18 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by onlinebiker - November 5, 2018 at 8:36 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Ravenshire - November 5, 2018 at 5:23 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Dr H - November 13, 2018 at 6:01 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 14, 2018 at 4:19 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Dr H - November 14, 2018 at 5:55 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Belacqua - November 5, 2018 at 6:32 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 5, 2018 at 6:55 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Angrboda - November 5, 2018 at 6:47 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Belacqua - November 5, 2018 at 8:30 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 5, 2018 at 8:43 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Grandizer - November 5, 2018 at 8:49 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 5, 2018 at 8:51 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Grandizer - November 5, 2018 at 5:41 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 6, 2018 at 5:24 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Belacqua - November 6, 2018 at 6:07 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 6, 2018 at 7:08 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Grandizer - November 6, 2018 at 4:37 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 5, 2018 at 7:06 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by brewer - November 5, 2018 at 7:17 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 5, 2018 at 7:27 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by brewer - November 5, 2018 at 7:48 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by robvalue - November 5, 2018 at 7:37 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Grandizer - November 5, 2018 at 7:43 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Cod - November 5, 2018 at 7:57 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by robvalue - November 5, 2018 at 7:46 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Joods - November 5, 2018 at 7:47 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 5, 2018 at 8:27 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Whateverist - November 6, 2018 at 5:06 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by LastPoet - November 5, 2018 at 8:46 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by onlinebiker - November 5, 2018 at 11:38 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Astreja - November 5, 2018 at 12:19 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Angrboda - November 5, 2018 at 1:04 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by onlinebiker - November 5, 2018 at 1:50 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Duty - November 5, 2018 at 1:04 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Angrboda - November 5, 2018 at 1:06 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Duty - November 5, 2018 at 1:44 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Rahn127 - November 5, 2018 at 2:09 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Duty - November 5, 2018 at 2:16 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by LadyForCamus - November 5, 2018 at 2:42 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by The Valkyrie - November 5, 2018 at 2:43 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Rahn127 - November 5, 2018 at 2:52 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by The Valkyrie - November 5, 2018 at 2:53 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by The Valkyrie - November 6, 2018 at 12:57 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by The Grand Nudger - November 6, 2018 at 4:58 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Macoleco - November 6, 2018 at 5:31 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Whateverist - November 6, 2018 at 7:45 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Chicken - November 14, 2018 at 6:26 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by The Grand Nudger - November 15, 2018 at 8:50 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by polymath257 - November 15, 2018 at 9:03 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Angrboda - November 15, 2018 at 9:53 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Dr H - November 15, 2018 at 7:58 pm
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by The Grand Nudger - November 15, 2018 at 10:13 am
RE: Purpose? No idea what it is. - by Angrboda - November 15, 2018 at 10:24 am

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