According to my fellow atheists, the only purpose of our existence is to survive and pass on our genes. Quite frankly, I think that is a crappy and unsatisfying purpose. Please forgive me when I say that you are severely lacking in imagination and inspiration if the best you can come up with is simply to eat, sh*t, reproduce, and die. Can we think of nothing better than that? I think we can, and should.
Consider these words by Richard Dawkins:
"We can leave behind the ruthlessness, the waste, the callousness of natural selection. Our brains, our language, our technology, make us capable of forward planning. We can set up new purposes of our own, and among these new goals can be the complete understanding of the universe in which we live. A new kind of purpose is abroad in the universe. It resides in us."
2007-07-14
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