what do u think..? is this what human existance has come down to? sitting around on the computer? if so then what the hell is the point of existing? WHY is human kind here? We all know religion answers this question..but what about all the non-religous people out there? are we really just an accident of nature? if not..we were meant to be doing this?!
2006-11-03 00:20:03 · 27 answers · asked by pseudoname 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
by saying we are here to reproduce you're admitting we are just an accident of nature..we're just animals..what about the people who dont think that..what do we do to reach full human potential?
2006-11-03 00:33:14 · update #1
The human species has one advantage over animals because we strive for knowledge and understanding. Religions came about as a means to try and explain the world around us. Every religion has had at LEAST one wise person in it that the people went to for guidance.
Asking questions only proves our yearning for information. The computer is now available with a plethora of information from people all over the world.
Our purpose is to seek, learn, and understand the world around us. It is also to do something productive with the knowledge we have learned, and implement guidelines to ensure future generations will not make the same mistakes as us.
2006-11-03 01:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by April J 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is another way of looking at religion: It gives you a reason for living.
That is why many people have a "religion", whether they acknowledge one or not. It doesn't need to be something like Christianity or Buddha, it can be something else like a sports team or a political party or a pop star.
The difference is most religions have an "after life" aspect to them, and they also believe that we aren't just accidents of nature.
So from a religious point of view, yes, you were meant to have been born at the time you were born.
2006-11-03 01:46:20 · answer #2 · answered by Bad bus driving wolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we have great potential
we also are lazy and selfish...
and have been given the gift of free will
we choose what we do even though sometimes it truely feels we have no choice is some things ... we do... we can choose to give up (or sit on a computer all day) in every moment in every day we make a million different choices large and small... we choose to get up in the morning...
yes there are always consequences in what we choose but we make a choice
i cant really say what the true reason of why we are here is... but i could come up with a million ideas... just which reason is it?... it may be different for each person so maybe there are a million different answers.. we just have to find our own personal reason
it could be as simple as being a good person... raising a family... or maybe as large as changing the world or the way others think
2006-11-03 06:15:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be better for us to think and believe that we are here for a purpose, and we are not a produce of some accident by nature. This gives us purpose in our lives, the lives that we can understand and manage. If we have purpose in our lives we feel great and we do great things as well. Our beliefs in an over all purpose to life give us better purposes for our individual lives. In return the purposes that we design our lives with make us believe that there is some grand purpose in which our purpose reside. The belief in a grand purpose to our lives is just another name for faith.
The people who do not believe in anything they believe in the world that they can see and feel – the material world governed by proven ethical and moral principles. Even though they do not believe in anything beyond the reason and rationality they must think about the things that they do not know about. This is impossible to know anything without knowing to some extent what we do not know.
2006-11-03 04:23:24 · answer #4 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may be too factual for philosophy but here it is we're not accidents of nature we are just part of nature. We are born we do some stuff-including sitting in front of a computer- and then we die. I won't go into what happens then because we don't really know. Each individual can do alot or nothing with their time here.
2006-11-03 01:53:37 · answer #5 · answered by leavemealone 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no "why".
We are here because we can be here... and thats all there is to it. We serve no purpose, have no goal or aim... and no general worth either. We came into being randomly as a result of causality, and likewise in sufficient time, causality will obliterate us and it will be as though we had never been.
You are certainly thinking along the right lines.
Now its just a matter of accepting that what I'm telling you here is essentially the truth... and then coming to terms with our objective worthlessness, as well as that of the Universe itself.
Afterall, people build elaborate and fantastical belief systems to escape from the truth of their purposeless existence... to escape the fact that the Universe doesn't have an aim, but rather just does what it does like one enormous and neverending chemical reaction. It bespeaks of a far stronger will to be able to accept that worthlessness and keep living despite it.
2006-11-03 01:40:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mankind exists to coexist. The essence of life is that when co-operation occurs, complexity and development increases exponentially. We exist to work together with those around us, and the world becomes a better place for us having done so. We can in turn gain much by being willing to engage with the world and share in its development.
2006-11-03 05:26:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of the classic astronaut concept is the main suitable clarification for faith (no longer inevitably our species) so a techniques, yet i won't be in a position to declare i individually have faith it. thrilling although. to respond to the final area: it would count on the cataclysm. The cataclysm could take each and every of the info with it, if it have been efficient sufficient. on the different hand, the cataclysm could be a scourge, and the info ought to final for 1000's of years. regardless of if it relatively is totally uncertain that cro-magnon guy existed any until eventually now than we expect of given the info of our evolution & the age of the rock layers wherein we come across our ancestors' fossils.
2016-10-15 08:09:40 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not an accident of nature or the universe, just an inevitablity....why? why not? One version of events is yes we were meant to do this...as there are many versions of us that are not, in the infinity everything is possible....so take heart...just think an infinate yous actually won the lottary, or will win this weekend...what would an infinate yous do with that 88 million...bummer is that an infinate yous just died! Pants! Just be glad to be the one of you that you know and do all you can to ensure that this one of you has the best life possible...let the others look after themselves...and take solace knowing that where you fail other yous have succeeded!
2006-11-03 00:31:44 · answer #9 · answered by michael s 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well perhaps we can start our own religion n help other people find meaning of life. We are sitting around the computer because we enjoy internet as a means of communication with other humans. It's also a means of satisfying our brain's hunger for knowledge. With the right knowledge we find opportunities and ways to make our life better. As to our point of living, you can just make up one yourself, religions were created by our influential ancestors for this purpose. Have faith in yourself.
2006-11-03 01:11:28 · answer #10 · answered by papa 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋