Also, 42. Can't believe no one mentioned that yet.
admiral-bell said:What am I put on this earth for. I am being plauged by this philisophical question: If am not merely a being of flesh and blood, than what am I? How, and to a lesser extent, why do I exist?
oh, so THATS what the question is! and i was sure it was 6x7.. or 7x6.Eran of Arcadia said:Also, 42. Can't believe no one mentioned that yet.
admiral-bell said:bah, I'm talking more on the level of my conciousness existing, not biologically. (Don't give me a religious or scientific answer either. I'm looking for something philisophical).
Cheezy the Wiz said:oh, so THATS what the question is! and i was sure it was 6x7.. or 7x6.
admiral-bell said:What am I put on this earth for. I am being plauged by this philisophical question: If am not merely a being of flesh and blood, than what am I? How, and to a lesser extent, why do I exist?
Eran of Arcadia said:I have a religious answer: we exist to develop and become like God, and in doing so to glorify Him. We can become greater than we can even imagine.
CurtSibling said:And become slaves to greedy and evil men who masquerade as voices for a god.
Or to live in quivering fear and guilt for imagined 'sins'.....No thanks.
Raisin Bran said:IMHO we are put on this Earth for 1 thing and 1 thing only.
To reproduce ourselfs.
The sole purpose of life is to generate more life. Look all around at all living things, their only goal ist to survive to find a mate and reproduce. If you crunch down human life to its simplest expression, we work our ass off all our lives to survive and find a mate and reproduce and then die after your offspring can get out of the nest. This is just normal.
We humans live so long now that we have time to imagine that we were put on this earth for some kind of divine purpose.
Pyrite said:"Raisin, if that's our only goal how come so many intelligent people choose NOT to reproduce"
Because birth control let's us satisfy physical urges while still not participating truly in reproduction.