RE: Question for Atheists
February 8, 2014 at 7:36 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2014 at 8:04 am by Whateverist.)
(February 8, 2014 at 5:23 am)khan4036 Wrote: Thats a good question. Though m not atheist , but I would like to answer it anyway.
We were all created for some purpose. Everyone has some purpose most likely different than the other. Its on the individual to discover what purpose he's been sent here for.
I agree that we discover our 'purpose'. It is a poor description of the process to think of it as something we manufacture. But it needn't be anything assigned to us by a magic genie.
Sure we discover what gives us satisfaction and meaning in our lives. In exactly the same way we discover what flavor of ice cream suits us best. No god needed to implant a favorite flavor of ice cream. The source probably varies between the foods you're exposed to earlier in your life, the associations you have to some of them and some variation in our constitution.
Our preference in ice cream flavor and activities/experiences which give us the highest satisfaction in the realm of purpose are not arbitrary decisions on our part. It is appropriate to call them things we discover. But there is no reason to think what we discover is sent by a higher power.