Most living things provide some function or role in the ecosystem/environment. Bees pollinate plants. Trees convert CO2 to oxygen. Some are food in the food chain. What do people do for the earth/universe?
2007-05-28
20:58:04
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I am interested in humans as the human race, not a particular individual's purpose.
2007-05-28
21:29:49 ·
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Foreign*** if Ecclesiastes is really about Fearing God... what is the purpose of that fear? and for whom (why would "God" need fear.) Especially when fear is the opposite of love.
2007-05-28
21:33:00 ·
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Lei-K and 10-T... yea I guess I would provide a nice morsel for a lion, but didtnt have to go to grad school to do that. And we do provide CO2... but we are an expensive animal for doing these things that are better done by other animals. Is there a unique purpose that humans as a distinct creature exist for?
2007-05-28
21:36:10 ·
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Humans as a species would probably be a better term than human race.
2007-05-28
21:36:53 ·
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We are merely A byproduct of millions of years of evolution. We exist for the the purpose of existing! We are just lucky to have gained sentient thought so we are no longer bound to our animal instincts and can consider are reasons for being.
Maybe we exist to be able to see and appreciate the beauty of nature.
2007-05-30 11:15:00
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answered by simo9352 5
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Well yes and no. Living things perform functions for the eco system but they themselves benefit. Bees get food. Plants spread their seeds through bees. Trees use CO2 while expelling O2 as waste. Animals use O2.
In short, things benefit for themselves and benefit even more when there are gains for both the organism and the environment.
Humans dont have to benefit earth (I am skeptical to say universe) but they do - they are host to diseases, provide O2 for trees.
But one should not look at earth as a living entity. The only reason to care about the environment is because we are part of it. IN that way, if I were to perish, I would not give a hoot how earth ended up.
2007-05-28 21:04:33
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answered by leikevy 5
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Such sweeping questions ... Western religions in many circumstances postulate motives for human life, yet different philosophical, scientific, and theological traditions do no longer. Absent the concepts of religion, human beings seem to have no intrinsic purpose. we are, by using fact we are. this is, we seem to have arisen interior the direction of the methods of organic and organic evolution: reproduction, mutation, and organic decision. Objectively, we exist for an identical motives and purposes all different living issues exist for: to propagate our genes. those methods have given upward push to psychological qualifications that fluctuate the equation inspite of the shown fact that. by using fact we are able to devise and yearn, we are able to now supply ourselves a meaning, a purpose, the two in my view ("i will serve the undesirable") or together ("we are able to seek for to locate and understand the universe"). in step with probability we are able to at some point, hundreds of years interior the destiny, become a race of area travellers searching for awareness around the galaxy, and then the universe. in basic terms time will tell. The Earth will actually exist in one hundred years, as will human beings, until some large merchandise plows into us like in that previous action picture 'while Worlds Collide'.
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answered by satterly 4
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Apparently to suck the earth of all it's natural resources....drug our selves until we aren't even as good as our pets at parenting...all by our own choice...Humans could have helped cultivate...doctor...nurture....but from the looks of things.....our greed and carelessness will be the near ruin of the earth or at least the majority of the human race.....natural selection...wow...I'm in a mood tonight.
Instead of human species...how about human predators, parasites....maybe because...we as humans are different in purpose...and shouldn't be classified all into one group...
2007-05-28 21:05:00
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answered by G-ma 2
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Humans were created only to worship Allah. If they do it sincerely they will go to heaven, if they do not they will go Hell.
The whole world is serving for the human, Why Allah had given them that Chance. look the animals we slaughter and eat, look the fruits and vegetables, look the seas and oceans we travel over them, look the air we breath, look the pleasure that Allah had given the humans and other creatures do not have.
All those will be accounted for, and you will only be save if you worship Allah who had given you all that mentioned and many more.
2007-05-28 21:09:05
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answered by adamjer 2
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(Ecclesiates 12:13) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
THIS IS OUR PURPOSE, my friend. Read the bible. Visit url truthcaster or esoriano.wordpress
2007-05-28 21:09:24
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answered by foreigner 1
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I don't like the idea of having a purpose (or being made to ). If I do choose to have one, it's my own business.
2007-05-28 21:20:34
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answered by mand 4
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ASK QUESTIONS ON YAHOO ? I WONDER IF YOU WALKED UP TO A HUNGRY LION, WOULD HE EAT YOU ? WOULD YOU THAN BE FOOD IN THE FOOD CHAIN ?
2007-05-28 21:03:45
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answered by 10-T3 7
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To ask questions like you did.
2007-05-28 21:03:25
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answered by Shaycoholic 2
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I don't know. All I know is that I am. Your question parallels the question: "What is the meaning of life"?
2007-05-28 21:01:51
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answered by Anonymous
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