If you look through the view of science, our lives are just blips on an infinite clock. Saying "we exist to exist" is moot because how do you explain progress through ages? We accomplish much more than continuing to propagate our species. I am not asking for the purpose of life, cause we don't know that, but why do we keep doing what we do?
2006-10-29 14:47:58 · 24 answers · asked by sjalt 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What drives us as a species is an innate desire to survive and to survive well. Every improvement we make as a species is based on improving our ability to survive.
Sex is an inborn desire to procreate and thus enable our species to survive. Pleasure is viewed as pleasure only if it is beneficial to survival. Things that are painful are viewed as painful only if it is harmful to survival. We may think that drinking, drugs and illicit sex are pleasurable only to realize that it is painful in the long run and thus hurting our survival chances, individually and collectively.
I'm sorry to disappoint you but the idea that we exist to exist isn't far from truth...we live in order to survive and to play the game of survival and that is all.
The entire religious philsophy is based on nothing more than a method to gain what???? ETERNAL LIFE! Eternal Life is survival to the ultimate. That is what everyone seeks and desires...SURVIVAL. It is the single driving force of all life forms. Everything a human being does is to ensure survival as an individual, as a family, as a group, as a nation and as a species. That is all.
MAKE PEACE WITH THAT BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUTH!
2006-10-29 15:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In contrary, progress is accomplished only by virtue of a select few individuals. Collectively speaking, the others truly only exist in mediocrity.
If you look at the state of the world at this moment in time, how far have we progressed? What problems have we brought with progress? Global warming, pollution, energy crisis, civil and international conflicts, racism, terrorism, biological warfare, nuclear crisis, mutating viruses.
Are we progressing at our own expenses or that of others?
How many contributed to these destructive causes? How many have given thought to these, or sought to resolve these issues, and how many just sit around waiting for solutions?
In that perspective, how has humanity progressed as a global race?
Isn't our projected sense of progress the very source of our own undoing?
We keep doing what we are doing cause we remain clueless, indulging in our own selfish endeavours and taking things for granted. Until the day humanity destroys itself, or this planet that we inhabit.
2006-10-30 01:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by Saffren 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the main things would simply be "improvement". We want the future to be better than the past. That inspires us to do everything from cure diseases to improve the resolution of televisions.
I think thats why so many celebrities end up on drugs, or with other serious problems. When a person has amazing fame, wealth, success, etc, there is really not much they can do to improve their life, and that really makes them a bit crazy. Humans need to work towards improvement at something.
2006-10-29 14:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by Phil S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotion and necessity drive us as a species. The progress of our species has been driven by inventions/discovery's brought about by necessities, emotions being the driving force. From WWII (which was brought on by hate), to the current war in the middle east (brought on by fear or greed whichever you prefer), emotions are our strongest asset and Achilles heel.
2006-10-29 15:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by kharmageddon74 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are driven by the same impulses as all other mammals. The need to survive and to procreate. Unfortunately humans are too smart for their own good and find other ways to complicate life in an endless effort to give it more meaning that it really needs.
2006-10-29 14:57:49 · answer #5 · answered by מימי 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Drive to Survive.
2006-10-29 16:43:28 · answer #6 · answered by YourShopGirl.com 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insatiability
2006-10-29 17:09:25 · answer #7 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Competitive judgment which to cover our ignorance is a drive force, ..We know only that way but there is no evidence that other driving forces non-existent. That was our choice.
2006-10-29 15:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has given us an invitation to eternal life in Jesus Christ. That's why I do what I do. I think non-believers do what they do because they sense there is something else beyond this "blip," but don't consciously acknowledge what that something else is.
2006-10-29 14:52:09 · answer #9 · answered by cucumberlarry1 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Self preservation being a basic need drives us to achieve and succeed.
Peace.
2006-10-29 14:50:40 · answer #10 · answered by -Tequila17 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋