Berzerker
Deity
- George Harrison...
so what is it?
what is the purpose of life?
so what is it?
what is the purpose of life?
What is Life?
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Perfection
The Great Head.
Reproduction
Berzerker
Deity
appears so, I just noticed 2 other related threads
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but I was hoping to see how atheists answered
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but I was hoping to see how atheists answered
Narz
keeping it real
A sexually transmitted disease.
madviking
north american scum
slow moving energy that has condensed and has formed an awareness of itself
Phrossack
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appears so, I just noticed 2 other related threads
ignore
but I was hoping to see how atheists answered
I'm an atheist. I don't think that life has any inherent purpose, any more than the existence of an icicle has a purpose. They are both things that just happen when conditions are right.
However, anyone can give their own lives a sense of purpose. My goals are, in the broadest sense, to enjoy my stay on Earth as much as I can (so long as doing so doesn't interfere with the happiness and well-being of others), and to have a positive or at least neutral net effect on the world. To that end, I'll try to get some horses and a little countryside house. Fall in love. Ride horses as much as possible. Enjoy, learn about, and study the wilderness and nature. Be nice and helpful to people. Make others be glad I was born. Help out some dogs. Things like that. It's not terribly sophisticated or "cultured," but it's fine by me.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
Loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I like wikipedia's answer, even though it seems to be a bit too broad:
OP didn't ask about the meaning of life, just life. Life is a very broad thing that includes cockroaches and scientologists.
edit: wait a second
The purpose of life is different for each life-form and can change depending on age and other factors.
OP didn't ask about the meaning of life, just life. Life is a very broad thing that includes cockroaches and scientologists.
edit: wait a second
The purpose of life is different for each life-form and can change depending on age and other factors.
^That is a horrible definition in my view :/ For starters, life is not only recognised in objects (ie in what you can observe) but also in sentient beings, through self-awareness. So wiki's sentence is not a generalisation but an erosion of a primary understanding of life, by the very species which senses it beyond a doubt.
Although wiki might be edited by alien, plant, or likely hive lifeforms
Although wiki might be edited by alien, plant, or likely hive lifeforms
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
^That is a horrible definition in my view :/ For starters, life is not only recognised in objects (ie in what you can observe) but also in sentient beings, through self-awareness. So wiki's sentence is not a generalisation but an erosion of a primary understanding of life, by the very species which senses it beyond a doubt.
Although wiki might be edited by alien, plant, or likely hive lifeforms
But life is just basically any organism made out of DNA and all DNA is is a protein that replicates. That's a pretty good definition of life, no?
Re-reading wikipedia's definition it seems that computers might be alive under it. so maybe you are onto something. Yeah, you definitely are.
I did leave out a part of the definition, I thought it was filler. But I guess it was the part that said "EXCEPT FOR ROBOTS"
Anyway, life is pretty hard to define. And everyone is free to find their own purpose in life.
CavLancer
This aint fertilizer
A thought swimming through a hologram. 
Leonard Susskind & Friends...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbZT9bJ1s4
Leonard Susskind & Friends...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbZT9bJ1s4
Life is undefined. The purpose of life is undefined. Ofc we can take our life and assign its traits as definitions, as in "life is objects with 4 legs", or "life is objects with self sustaining processes" or "the purpose of life is reproduction" but its just a special case descriptive definition which will be thrown into recycle bin the second an alien appears.
Intelligence is undefined too. Cant tell the difference between a stone and a human.
Intelligence is undefined too. Cant tell the difference between a stone and a human.
Plato defined humans as a "two-legged being, without feathers" 
( Ον δίπουν, άπτερον ).
It seems that Diogenes, the cynic, then took all the feathers out of a rooster and presented it to the academy as a human.
( Ον δίπουν, άπτερον ).
It seems that Diogenes, the cynic, then took all the feathers out of a rooster and presented it to the academy as a human.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Life makes more life.
If it's what the purpose of any person's life. Well that's up to them.
Bacteria seems not very conscious.
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more.
The concept of life is akin to the concept of 'species'. It's a fine heuristic, but (like all biological definitions), gets fuzzy at the edges.
The concept of life is akin to the concept of 'species'. It's a fine heuristic, but (like all biological definitions), gets fuzzy at the edges.
Narz
keeping it real
Not always. Plenty of voluntary childless folks.
