do you think humanity has purpose?

Answer 1

Yes but we still have not the common denominator to bridge the gap between individualists and the whole group of humanity. To where we would bring it to a level of a team, with a common goal, like save the planet for instance that would be a good one right now but see humanity has to be individually in diar straights before they realize their purpose. The purpose to me is life but life with others as a family or friends, community and such. To the majority now it is still me me me. So the purpose is gain for oneself and the purpose is now lost and those standing alone with the knowledge of the purpose are the ones they write about and say " and there for the grace of God walk they." So basically humanity is suppose to be for the Grace of God.

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

Answer 3

Yes, humanity has the same purpose as any other life form: to reproduce. We've merely evolved some relatively advanced thinking as part of our survival strategy. Having done so, however, gives us a pretty cool advantage: each individual has the power to decide, discover, or create his OWN purpose.

As I don't believe in any sort of deity, I don't believe humanity has been handed some purpose by a higher power. Even if I were a believer though, the notion that humans have some higher purpose is an affront to our free will. Any purpose external to our own must necessarily impinge upon our free will to shape our own destinies. In which case, why would a god give us free will to begin with?

Answer 4

Certainly, many would write; reproduce, be successful, etc. and have a blast/ be happy... and they are all true... but they are not the main goal, i believe our purpose is to evolve, and by that i mean as individuals in a society... cause i am certain that all humans alive will never have the exact same goals and at the same time.

i no longer believe in paradise and hell, cause God could have us all in paradise by now... but instead he gave us free will, as for something we ought to learn and do on our own... God ain't cruel, He just lets us play around, and deal with the consequences.

so, i find reincarnation more logical and appealing than the forgiveness of serious sins by reciting 50 Ave Marias every time we commit the same sin, with the comfortable promise of a paradise waiting for those accepted by ones church.

What would be the point of this cycle, if not evolution... just think of birth, growth, pain, happiness, love, hate, envy, attachment, sickness, reproduction, death, and then all over again...

All that for what? if not spiritual evolution!!

Answer 5

Does any living thing have a purpose? It exists because it can and it will do whatever is necessary to continue living. The human being as a specie is the same.

Answer 6

Humanity had a purpose.Thats why we are here.But it seems that we all have forgotten that purpose in our quest for worldly pleasures.Look at people like Gandhi,Mother teresa,Buddha,who all gave up everything to serve the purpose of humanity.All of them helped people in their own way .

Answer 7

Yes, of course.

To preserve oneself at ANY cost. All animate and inanimate are dispensable.

The irony is that it does not know how to achieve that ONE GRAND purpose .... Does everything that eventually goes against.

Perhaps, it is justice rather than irony if selfish purposes are self defeating.

Answer 8

I don't live to reproduce. Survival is totally subsidiary to what we want: power. But humanity as a whole -- its functional arrangement serves many 'purposes'. You have to specify a domain.

Answer 9

To assist in the evolution of consciousness. It is a shift from unawareness to full awareness of the whole.

Answer 10

i used to ask that question everyday but then realised that there is no way to to actually answr that question