david hobbs
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Does life have a purpose?You may look at your life and wonder why all of the amazing things that needed to happen in the universe to bring it about happened.
Do you think life has purpose or is it simply an accident.
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Raymond
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I think individually we are all (happy) accidents.
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Waffle King
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Yes, life does has a purpose, i for three, believe that the purpose of life is to die, but to leave some mark either good or bad, cos that way, you're not exactally forgotten 
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Bravo
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| Quote: | | Does life have a purpose? |
Does it matter if it does or doesn't?
There is an old saying, 'wherever you are, be there'
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meiah
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Yes, I think it does, but not a pre-destined purpose. Our lives are the sum of our choices, and so perhaps our purpose is to choose and experience our choices.
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Raymond
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Once again you're all being far too clever for a simple question.
Why do humans see themselves as anything other than any other animal on the planet?
Each individual living thing on the planet is here because it's parents' felt a bit fruity one night and fancied a bit of the other.
That's not to say you shouldn't have a good time and make the most of it while you're here, but we're all just happy little accidents of nature.
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meiah
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Once again, you are right. I was thinking of consciousness and being, rather than simply existing as a living organism
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Samjaza
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Trying to reply to this topic using a mobile phone with internet access. Thats my purpose at the moment. Damned Fidely thing......
I would say and i'll go around the mullberry bush to say so.......,
What is the purpose of life?
The question that forms a philosphers emerald tablet.
Two fields of thought ;- the accidental Evolutionary theory and the conscioussness/spiritual leaning.
What is the purpose of a car? by using the accidental evolutionary analogy they would say it appears because it was made on a production line and that's it. It's reason being merely as a vehicle for getting from a to b. Is that similar to our body?
Single celled amoeba exsisted quite comfortably. If it aint broke don't fix it, so why evolve into something more complex?
Explaining evolution is easy. if we needed to crane our necks to reach fruit to surviv our bodies through evolution would adapt to make us grow gangly legs and long necks.Evolution is just that. No accident. We evolve into what we want and if we make a mistake our spieces dies. We are here because we are perfect for this enviroment. we craft our future. But, this means all our purpose is, is to evolve and to breed.
Conscioussness then must have been created by evolution. Organisms need to feel heat and light in order to survive. Why have we evolved from the flora *, perfectly happy, static, without will or desire.
Is consciousness born of body. When we are born it takes years before our development and memory serves to create our own idea of ourselves.If conscioussness exsisted beyond body, infinitly,we should be born with the tools of our past lives, of our higher conscioussness.We are not.So the accidental evolutionist would say that this proves conscioussness is a product of body.This being so it would be argued if we lost our sight and our hearing and our senses our conscioussness would likewise deteriorate as merely being a vehicle for sensory input.A vegetive state needs no conscience. As soon as one sense is active our consciousness explodes into activity. Formulating the world.
The practice of yogis is to still the senses. It is impossible to live without them. How would we eat and drink and keep warm without them. It is through practice of meditation that answers to conscioussness occurs. It is not a product of body but a seperate entity which when seen for what it is resides in all things equally.
So what is the purpose of life? To live, quite simply.To feed of experience. To know the difference and more importantly to know the unity.
So why did nature evolve to bring this about?Why has nature evolved into creating us the way we are? Simply because we are nature, we willed it. We are that nature and therefore the same 'I'. the same root of conscioussness.We created our life and experience because all being the same, is boring.
* I originally wrote fauna ( the animal kingdom) in my haste to type this up. Doh. My grandmother, because every witch you speak to has a dotty grandma who was herself a witch said, "don't worry about the birds and the bees, concentrate on the herbs and the bees that's what you need to know." Silly old bag. 
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david hobbs
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| Raymond wrote: | Once again you're all being far too clever for a simple question.
Why do humans see themselves as anything other than any other animal on the planet?
Each individual living thing on the planet is here because it's parents' felt a bit fruity one night and fancied a bit of the other.
That's not to say you shouldn't have a good time and make the most of it while you're here, but we're all just happy little accidents of nature. |
Very true, but there was a beginning, or was there.
Anyway in the beginning there was not a sexual drive.
So looking at the bigger picture talk of bedside accidents does not answer anything really. It answers how we are conceived but not if we were conceived as part of a greater purpose.
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Samjaza
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| david hobbs wrote: |
Very true, but there was a beginning, or was there.
Anyway in the beginning there was not a sexual drive.
So looking at the bigger picture talk of bedside accidents does not answer anything really. It answers how we are conceived but not if we were conceived as part of a greater purpose. |
True. But.
If one thing divided itself to know itself then by union ~ love ~ those two elements create what was the one thing. this 'love' thing in essence is perhaps the first archetypal consciousness. It is said everything in nature is a symbolic representation of universal law. Even the sex act somehow must show a greater concept.
The idea of God is androgynous and creation being its division.One thing dividing itself into what was nothing essentially creates infinite possibilities.
So the purpose must be to reunite with the one idea and understand evrything essentially is derived of that same one thing. Or else we just keep mapping that forward expanding path of infinite possibilities.
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Raymond
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| david hobbs wrote: | | Anyway in the beginning there was not a sexual drive. |
You say that like it's an established fact.
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david hobbs
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The key word is if.
It needs two to make three and that is evidenced in nature.
I do think that everything "hidden" is also represented in the physical world , and when we need to know something it will manifest by one means or another in our material life.
The sex act division trying to become the one again, and of course creating the third thing.
Clever trick eh!
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Raymond
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| david hobbs wrote: | | Anyway in the beginning there was not a sexual drive. |
No, no. I've looked at that sentence again and again. Can't see the word "if".
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david hobbs
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Typical internet problem.
I was speaking of Sam's post.
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Lilly
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[quote="david hobbs"]Typical internet problem.
I was speaking of Sam's post.[/quote
The word 'IF'-- comprising of only two letters,yet the biggest word in the world; recently replaced by; 'I wish I could play the rewind button on life'
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evergreen
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life is to live.... honestly the answer is so simple... what are we all searching for.... living is a process that well call life
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Raymond
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I have to agree with you EG. I see so many people everyday dashing about trying to do as much as possible just trying to make themselves feel worthwhile. I find it all pretty pointless.
The point of life is to enjoy it. Whatever that may be.
Personally I like to have a good laugh. I measure time by the laughs I have.
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