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« on: May 18, 2015, 08:13:44 pm »
Hello..... I'm Seb, as Pepsi mentioned the forums have been very dry today. I felt like posting something but I really didn't know what, so I Googled "good conversation starters". of course one of the first things that comes up is the purpose of life. Now, I know most people on this server quite well now, and as I said the servers have been dry so im giving them some moisture. I would be very interested if you awnsered my question and said what you thought what the purpose of life is, this is what I think of it:
WARNING! MANY RHEROTIC QUESTIONS!
Now, the purpose of life. What is the point of life? surely there must be a point of us all being here? the purpose of life has baffled people as long as we have been around, and possible longer, how would we know? But why are we here? I think this is a good point for me to mention that I am an atheist and if anyone wants to give me their religious bullshit they can fuck off now (jk). Buddhism, which I think is a very interesting religion has a very specific thought on what the purpose of life is. They believe that we are in a constant loop called samsara, and whenever we die we are reborn (reincarnated) as another person over and over and over and over again. And we need to break out of this loop and die, forever. So basically, the purpose of life to a Buddhist is to die....forever. This is a very intelligent idea in my opinion and I can see why they would believe that. Unfortunately I am an atheist so for me it will not be that easy for me to find out, oh, did I also mention I really don't know what the purpose of life is? Anyway, back to the point, when I re-read what I just wrote, being an atheist and not believing in rebirth, I realised life was sacred, to me, when we die we will not have another chance, we are dead forever. look at yourself, think very deeply, you are you and no one else and once you are gone you will never be alive again..... strange to think about huh? I hope im making it clear what I mean but its kinda hard for me to explain. If life is this sacred we must value it surely, and make sure we enjoy life as much as possible.
If life is sacred we should enjoy it as much as possible yes? why not, we should do what we enjoy most. gosh, this is deep shit. Anyway, I think a philosopher once had a theory that the purpose of life is to have as much fun as possible, and as little sadness. Happiness is "good" and sadness is "evil". after all, if we are only getting one shot at life, then why waste it? Ok, then if that is the purpose of life we could end it here right? but no, first we need to work out what happiness is, do we know what happiness is? are we always sad and have never experienced happiness and when we are less sad we just assume that we are happy, there is no measurement for happiness or pleasure. What does our body enjoy? Drugs? Sex? Adrenaline? Gaming? Eating? Drinking? well, surely if we have a purpose to fulfil in life, our bodies would have adapted to be ideal for this. Well, what are our strongest instincts? our main instinct is survival, we need food, water and exercise. Without this we will die, I do not think these are "happiness" although these are the foundations of it all, without survival we cannot be happy. So what is our next biggest instinct? If we have experienced Drugs/alcohol we will be more inclined to take more surely and this is an instinct that can over power things like survival. Although these instincts are not natural. Although I have been trying to avoid it Sex is another instinct that influences people at certain times. Although again, I think this is just a building block of the foundations. imagine a three layer pyramid, at the bottom is survival (food/drink) in the middle is sex and drugs/alcohol what goes at the top? what natural instinct gives us the must pleasure? This depends on the person I think, so one person sky diving may give them a very large rush of adrenaline which they enjoy a very much, for another person this will scare the shit out of them. Although the deeper I go into this, the more I realise this gives us happiness, which goes at the top of our pyramid, although that cannot be the purpose of life because ---- I will let you decide.
I do not want to get stuck into one idea too much and I could sit here and think of reasons all day, I kind of want to continue playing war thunder so I will try to now explain briefly what I think the meaning of life is. Now, for there to be a meaning of life we must have been made for a purpose, I believe in Darwin's theory that we have evolved over millions of years from bacteria and monocellular organisms or whatever the fuck they are called. If we have just evolved from these we have not been created by a superior power (God) so we do not have a purpose in that sense. We have evolved and we have always evolved for one thing, survival, does that mean that the purpose of life is survival? maybe. If we have always evolved to survive better then the purpose of life for all living organism is to survive. We are always trying to live longer, so if there was a score on "life" the oldest person in the world would be on top of the score board right now. To be completely honest I think that there is no purpose of life because purpose suggests something we have to do. The purpose of life as we know it to me, is just to survive. Pretty sad huh? Well that's what I now think.
I would be extremely interested to see what you all think the purpose of life is and I would like to know what the meaning of life is to different people. "Meaning" wow, that's a completely different thing, that means life has a meaning. maybe I will say what I think that is too, I don't really know. But again, as I said, what do you think the purpose of life is? any Christians, that's the main religion in England and im not really sure what they think the purpose of life is, to go to church and eat Jesus?
holy shit, almost lost all of this cos I wouldn't let me upload powerpoint and it wouldn't let me go back to it (phew)
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