2007-12-19 17:18:33 · 13 answers · asked by majididrees686 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Why does it have to have a purpose? If one is alive, one just is; inhale, exhale, until one doesn't want to anymore.
But I am sure that if there is one, top of the list is to not ask a question that two other people a week ask. Be original!
2007-12-19 17:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Whew so many answers...
Uhm, if you're a Buddhist or a Hindu then the purpose is to evolve your consciousness, straighten out your karma and escape the Wheel of life and death.
If you're a Christian or a Moslem then it's to do what they say will get you to Heaven.
If you're an "evolutionist athiest" you may think that we're just a fluke and our purpose is to live the best life we can according to whatever we and our community agrees to.
I propose another theory (not a belief) That there is some sort of force/law/dynamic/central principle/whatever to the Universe and our purpose is for the this "Whatever" to experience itself through us. In fact we are a part of that "Whatever" only we don't know it, just as our fingernail doesn't know it is part of a human who doens't know he/she is part of an ecology system that doens't know it is part of the universe etc etc.
Have you ever seen the movie "The Jerk" where he discovers his "purpose" when he is screwing the motorcycle queen of the carnival? That would be pretty close to the "purpose" of this theory. We have this extroadinary sensory system that we can achieve orgasms that must be similar to the cosmic explosions where we momentarily loose our ego sense of self.
This would explain our attraction to the oppposite sex and need for intamacy and sensual sex.
2007-12-20 03:12:33 · answer #2 · answered by Larry A 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There were several answers that seemed to indicate that we don't need a purpose. But we do. In our daily lives we see that things that have no purpose also have no worth. The atheist philosopher Albert Camus said this about worth:
"There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that."
The word purpose is always used in reference to a design or plan, never for an accident. So nature by itself doesn't give purpose. For example, what is the purpose of a rock on the top of Mt. Hood? The question is meaningless.
And we can't invent our own purpose for our existence because we aren't responsible for our existence.
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (noted 20th century mathematician, philosopher, Nobel laureate and atheist)
So our purpose is either from our Creator or it is a nonsensical question. I think our Creator implanted this great need for purpose and worth into our human nature to point us to seek Him. So seeking Him is our purpose.
2007-12-20 05:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Life is the purpose. Life does not need another purpose beyond life. There can be no purpose more important than life, for importance is defined in terms of life.
Evolution is not a purpose unto itself, merely a set of accidents that befall living things, the vector sum of history.
2007-12-20 01:56:54 · answer #4 · answered by donfletcheryh 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am going to define "purpose" as follows:
"A purpose is an explanation where the thing being explained comes before the thing explaining it."
In other words, something is a purpose if it explains the occurrence of events that happen before the purpose. This is contrary to all other forms of explanation, where the explanation or cause occurs first, and the thing being explained by the cause comes after the cause.
Here are two simple examples, one with a purposeful explanation, and one with a normal causal explanation:
"I turned left at the intersection because I had to get to Auckland." "Turning left" is the thing being explained, and it occurs before "getting to Auckland", which is the thing that explains it.
"The car crashed because the brake hydraulics were faulty." In this case the target of the explanation, i.e. the crash, occurred after the condition that explains it, i.e. the faultiness of the brake hydraulics.
2007-12-20 01:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, we're just another part of a great creation by The Creator,God.And it's part of your purpose to figure out what your purpose is.
2007-12-20 14:15:25 · answer #6 · answered by EveretteDavid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suggest reading: "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, and "Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov.
They give some good answers.
Reading three books is remarkably few to become informed :)
2007-12-20 02:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by j153e 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What is the purpose of a sandstorm? Or of any particular grain of sand being blown along in one? I think that, unflattering as it is, places our existence in context. Purpose? We flatter ourselves to assume there is any purpose.
2007-12-20 12:37:52 · answer #8 · answered by All hat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We never know. What made you think we only evolve and not involve?
As much as evolution is a step by step understanding and growth in consciousness and awareness of higher knowledge hidden from us before. So does involution is a step by step understanding and descend in consciousness and awareness which brings in forgotten knowledge hidden from us before.
2007-12-20 05:59:28 · answer #9 · answered by Harihara S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you can be part of evolution if you want, me I am a part of Gods plan for eternity. I am here for a purpose, haven't discovered it out fully nor completely yet but I do my part each day and I persue that road that he laid for me
2007-12-20 01:22:19 · answer #10 · answered by LA High Rise 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋