What is the Purpose of Life ?

[truthseeker]

Your particular purpose can be almost anything. We are heavily biased by our emotions.

[Sebasfort]

Communication/languages are not immune to the conception of ideas that can't be observed. Asking/answering questions is an interhuman and intrahuman phenomena which is driven by biology/chemistry/physics/DataTakenFromTheEnvironmentAkaObservation (the first three are dogmas I've put there to help you get the idea). Your question has no universal answer and is really just part of what you would call a social phenomena.

 

The coherence of an answer is proportional to the coherence of the terms used in the question.

 

''Life'' and ''Purpose'' are not coherent terms yet they are used as fixed values in your question. Your question will not converge into an answer when it comes to reality/interparticular relations.

 

 

[dimreepr]

5 minutes ago, Sebasfort said:

Communication/languages are not immune to the conception of ideas that can't be observed. Asking/answering questions is an interhuman and intrahuman phenomena which is driven by biology/chemistry/physics/DataTakenFromTheEnvironmentAkaObservation (the first three are dogmas I've put there to help you get the idea). Your question has no universal answer and is really just part of what you would call a social phenomena.

 

The coherence of an answer is proportional to the coherence of the terms used in the question.

 

''Life'' and ''Purpose'' are not coherent terms yet they are used as fixed values in your question. Your question will not converge into an answer when it comes to reality/interparticular relations.

 

 

so your answer is?

[swansont]

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[Sock Prophet]

The simplest answer is self preservation, seeking social pleasure,knowledge and reproduction.....Oh,and don't miss Mass!

Edited December 8, 2019 by Sock Prophet
bad conscience

[Sensei]

"Sock Prophet"

[Sock Prophet]

I am such a disappointment....lol

[Clear Kets]

I don't know why I'm a fool for threads like this, but since everyone gets to put his or her two cents in...

In one sense, one that may be clear only to me, Lou Reed said it best:

Quote

Some people they like to go out dancing
And other peoples, they have to work (just watch me now)
And there's even some evil mothers
Well, they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt.
You know, that women never really faint,
And that villains always blink their eyes.
And that, you know, children are the only ones who blush.
And that life is just to die.
But, anyone who woulda had a heart
They wouldn't turn around and break it
And anyone who ever played a part
They wouldn't turn around and hate it.

So, from a life-centric point of view (the point of view that has a point of view)... well, you get my drift...

Let's just say that the purpose of having a point of view is to express it.

Edited December 8, 2019 by Clear Kets

[MSC]

To live and be life. What else is it supposed to do? I certainly can't be a rock!

[MSC]

On 12/8/2019 at 12:35 PM, Clear Kets said:

I don't know why I'm a fool for threads like this, but since everyone gets to put his or her two cents in...

In one sense, one that may be clear only to me, Lou Reed said it best:

So, from a life-centric point of view (the point of view that has a point of view)... well, you get my drift...

Let's just say that the purpose of having a point of view is to express it.

Really like this one actually. Biocentrism for the win.

[empleat]

LOL people's answers here. There is no inherent purpose to the universe, at least as far as we know! There are many philosophies like absurdism: people are inherently trying to find a purpose in the meaningless world, which creates the absurd! Or existentialism, of which basic premise is, that we make our own purpose. At the end it doesn't really matter, we are nothing, we can't change anything! So either you can kill yourself, or just enjoy life, anything else would be stupid...

Edited December 11, 2020 by empleat

[Interprete]

Also, it’s interesting to see some rationalists here rebuking the purpose seekers by stating that "life survives" or "life endeavours to adapt", as if life was more than a completely abstract concept. Life doesn’t endeavour to do anything. Organisms that happen to be fit to survive, survive; while others die out. There is no endeavour in that.

Edited December 11, 2020 by Interprete

[dimreepr]

32 minutes ago, empleat said:

LOL people's answers here.

You haven't read the thread then?

[dimreepr]

1 hour ago, dimreepr said:

You haven't read the thread then?

Given the neg rep, I assume you have; but that raises a conflict, if you've read the thread why would you say "LOL people's answers here." and then post, basically, my answer; am I not people?

[ALine]

to learn, to make, to do....

and efficiency

[Prof Reza Sanaye]

I should hardly think life has gotten any specific  "purpose" to it .  . . . . .

[dimreepr]

2 hours ago, Prof Reza Sanaye said:

I should hardly think life has gotten any specific  "purpose" to it .  . . . . .

I think it does, the purpose of life is to live; to be content with life has a purpose.

It's up to you, to provide a purpose while you live; the purpose of death is to feed the living...

[Prof Reza Sanaye]

5 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

I think it does, the purpose of life is to live; to be content with life has a purpose.

It's up to you, to provide a purpose while you live; the purpose of death is to feed the living...

Appreciations for taking your time to offer me and others comment(s) on my views . .  .. 

[zapatos]

10 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

I think it does, the purpose of life is to live; to be content with life has a purpose.

 

Well, that is the purpose that YOU assign to life. I don't see though where life has any inherent purpose to it, and given the wide range of answers to this question, I don't think that an inherent purpose is obvious.

[dimreepr]

1 minute ago, zapatos said:

Well, that is the purpose that YOU assign to life. I don't see though where life has any inherent purpose to it, and given the wide range of answers to this question, I don't think that an inherent purpose is obvious.

Of course not, it's completely subjective; but I'm content to live with that...

[Conscious Energy]

To love, to learn, to experience, to know, to do for the better.

[dimreepr]

1 minute ago, Conscious Energy said:

To love, to learn, to experience, to know, to do for the better.

What if you can't manage it??? Would you be conent with that? 😉

[Area54]

11 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

What if you can't manage it??? Would you be conent with that? 😉

The journey is more important than the destination.

[dimreepr]

The only possible answer to the OP is, be content to live with the purpose you decided.

3 minutes ago, Area54 said:

The journey is more important than the destination.

Why?

[Area54]

32 minutes ago, Area54 said:

The journey is more important than the destination.

 

32 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

Why?

1. A journey occupies time; a destination is but an instant.

2. Journies are variable; destinations are fixed.

3. Journies require observation, analyses and decisions; destinations are content with observation alone.

4. Journies have multiple possible routes; destinations are fixed.

5. Why not?