Is there a really a reason for the world?

Question

I have always wondered that.

Answer 1

Of course there is.

It's to make you ask if there really is a reason for the world.

Before you discard the above statement as frivolous, consider:
If you did not ask, you would be one who merely drifts through life.

Therefore you are one who is looking for meaning.

Meaning may be found in service.

Therefore the reason for the world is to make you happy by being in service.

Answer 2

Well... reason itself is a fundamental utility of the human mind; but it need not be a fundamental Thing Out There About the Universe. (although it could be -- we can't rule it in, and we can't rule it out).

The belief that everything must have a cause is a naive assumption, and of course we can hardly help but make it, just because it's our nature to use reason. We're not really 'designed' to imagine anything that is uncaused; nor are most of us inclined to make the effort. If we could easily do so, it would disrupt our functioning as individual material beings. But it can be imagined, in an oblique sort of way.

Answer 3

No. The world came into existence, it will continue until the sun engulfs it, after which there will be no more world. At that time the efforts of the billions of people who have lived on this planet will be poured into the lives of the few (if any) that manage to leave before the end (in search of a new world). (Assuming that anybody is left alive by that time, nuclear holocaust, cosmic cataclysm not withstanding).

Answer 4

Well, according to the Logic Master, yes. Nature does nothing in vain...Aristotle.

On the other hand, there's the Y!A masters that think there's no reason!0!

Since you're new in this, I just hope you have a lot of fun here, this(Philosophy) is the best of Y!A.

Good luck!0!

PS> LOL

Answer 5

There's not really a reason FOR the world because we don't know what we mean on a cosmic scale, but there might be reasons it's still here.

Answer 6

Scientifically there are only theories, such as the big bang. However, you are asking if there is a reason why we are here.

You won't get a straight answer for this as its too "spiritual." Once people look into questions like this, they begin to look into a religion.

Answer 7

To house us and support our life. That's what the reason is now anyway, unless you can think of something else important it does.

Answer 8

No. Something that wasn't built by a conscious being does not have a reason.

Answer 9

The non-religious answer:

For the universe to continue doing its thing

The religious reason:

God wanted man to be created to worship him

Answer 10

Gives the moon something to do.