i mean do they think....i mean think about it...would u wanna be a rat..whats there purpose
2007-11-01 23:25:29 · 14 answers · asked by Est.1992 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow nice detailed answer
2007-11-01 23:29:05 · update #1
no thank u i dont want a pet gerbil..those things are grosss
2007-11-01 23:38:37 · update #2
Truthfully, there is no purpose. That would imply that someone created everything with intent. This simply isn't the case. Animals evolved just like we did. Of course they think. of course they have feelings. Their purpose is the same as ours, to spread their genes.
2007-11-01 23:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps if you studied animals some more you might begin to see that their lives are woven in with ours in such intricate ways that you can only understand a part of the story if you studied it all your life.
Get a pet mouse or gerbil and watch it eat and how it walks on its wheel etc. You will begin to understand.
Enjoy.
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2007-11-02 06:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by a_phantoms_rose 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no "purpose".
The very concept is a human fallacy stemming from the ability to pattern things together in order to predict a probable outcome and influence the present to work toward such an outcome.
But nature doesn't plan.
Nature doesn't have intents.
Nature simply acts... and things happen.
I happen.
You happen.
The rats happen.
Everything merely happens.
We're all the same in that.
There is no reason to it.... no purpose.... It simply "is".
2007-11-02 06:35:27 · answer #3 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
just like all other creatures, to move things around.
to preserve the genetic pool and improve it and to maintain the earth.
it's like the legend about how david, when running from king saul wondered what's the purpose of a spider. and when he hid in a cave the spider made a web over it.
the soldiers looking for him saw the spider's web and said, this shows that nobody went into this cave in a long time, he can't be here...
and so he was saved.
2007-11-02 06:44:20 · answer #4 · answered by joe the man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their purpose is to have man have dominion over them as proclaimed by God. They are not thinking, feeling "humans" as we are. To them, every time they have "intercourse" it is the first time; they do it out of their intrinsic nature. They have no MEMORY of the past. They do everything out of pure instinc. That is what separates us from a beast. We are not animals; we have thoughts and feelings that we have to wrangle with everyday, along with the need to survive. Animals just need to survive. Yes, we can learn from them; elephants for example; they keep the same mate for life!
2007-11-02 06:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by dotell 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To survive and replicate their genes.
Biologically we have the same purposes. We're just intelligent enough that we can choose other purposes.
2007-11-02 06:30:04 · answer #6 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All life is here to develop. Animals have their own consciousness which differs to our own. It is not a matter of wanting to be a rat, one has no choice. The body that one is born to is irrelevant it is the soul that matters.
2007-11-02 06:31:44 · answer #7 · answered by A-chan 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
They have the same purpose as humans, plants, fungi, bacteria, and rocks.
2007-11-02 06:33:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I bet rats are happy.
2007-11-02 06:31:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to reproduce and gave birth to your grand parents
2007-11-02 06:34:00 · answer #10 · answered by Sheltie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋