point of life

[GuidoHunter]

Re: point of life

Wow, lots of bans for spam in CT getting thrown around.

I suggest y'all clean up your acts.

Anyway.

The purpose of life? That's an easy one. It's to efficiently degrade the thermal gradient between the solar radiation and the cold of space.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[shatteredgravity]

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the point of life is whatever you make it out to be. you can live it up to make it suck, or make do your best to make every frickin day utterly rad! iz all up to the one who runs yer life..oh. wait yeah. thats YOU.

[who_cares973]

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i think the point of life is to see how much we can do with the time given to use

[sarahxjane]

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We live to die.

Anything that happens in between is a bonus.

[dawg4321]

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The point of this life is to prepare for the next one through knowledge and experience.

[ledwix]

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We live to die.

Anything that happens in between is a bonus.

If the purpose of life is to die, then why live in the first place? Non-life can theoretically exist infinitely, while life is always finite, right? so....necessitating life so that non-life can result as a purpose is like saying the purpose of a chair is to become a tree, even though it was already something that wasn't a chair (a tree) before and wouldn't need to be converted to a chair in the first place.

[devonin]

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The phrase "purpose of life" is a non-sequitor because in order for your life to have a purpose, there has to be some specific greater cause around which you are living, and I'm not prepared to accept that.

As Kilroy said, life is what you make it. Nothing more, nothing less.

[GuidoHunter]

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The phrase "purpose of life" is a non-sequitor because in order for your life to have a purpose, there has to be some specific greater cause around which you are living, and I'm not prepared to accept that.

I am VERY willing to accept the Second Law of Thermodynamics as the greater cause, and would be mystified as to how someone else wouldn't.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[devonin]

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How is that a greater cause that you were put here to serve? You coincidentally -follow- it simply by being a thing, but it has no active force to have put humans here for the purpose of following it.

[GuidoHunter]

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How is that a greater cause that you were put here to serve?

I exist because of its grace.

but it has no active force to have put humans here for the purpose of following it.

If you want to be a reductionist about things, every action can be explained by the natural desire to destroy gradients. That is, when you try to explain every "active" force, the Second Law is the only ultimate end.

It may be a "passive" force, but it's the greatest force in all the universe (I hope we can agree on using a loose definition of the term "force" here).

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Shihen22]

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My guess on the point of life is that it is just like....a period of time that shows if you are actually religious, which is VERY ****EN HARD TO BE!!

[devonin]

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I exist because of its grace.

Reason != Purpose

[Reach]

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The easiest way to tackle this is to hit it from the roots, which is more or less a semantic debate. You have to look at the word point, which stems from the meaning of something.

Meaning, being the determined significance of some thing or event is purely relativistic. It is something that spawned when there was a being with significant enough neural activity to understand the happenings around it, and from there create meaning for these happenings. As humans are creators of meaning, no event can hold the same significance in each mind, and in order to address the meaning of life you have to look at it from different levels.

Assuming there was a divine creator, you could look at the universe from it's perspective, and the meaning of existance could be how it views our lives. However, this is only one of many meanings to life, as there is no such thing as universal meaning; being a purely relativistic phenomenon, the meaning each of us creates is equally one of many. The meaning of life, from your perspective, is purely whatever meaning you give to it, and is only one of many meanings life can have


So essentially, the question in itself is a poor question, as it does not merit an answer. It doesn't really have an answer, and never will. It will always have an indefinite number of equally correct answers.


It is also a very different question than 'Why are we here?', which has an answer. There is undoubtfully some sequence of events that has led to our existance. However, whether or not these events mean anything depends on who's observing them.


I know that for some, it can be easy to feel insignificant without some higher form of meaning holding their hand a long the way. If anything, the message I take from this is that life is what you make of it, and if you choose to do something great with it you will. Finding the strength within you to create your own significance will get you farther than hoping for everything to be laid out infront of you.

[GuidoHunter]

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Reason != Purpose

Where did reason come into this?

Also, purpose = "point" of life (not just humanity) = to efficiently reduce Earth's thermal gradient.

I'm not entirely certain I understand where you're going with your posts, devonin, so if you could please clarify I hope to be able to answer your questions better.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[ballaw hare]

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Okay I didn't read every post in the topic, so i might be repeating.

In my opinion, I think it is to reproduce and pass your genes on. I mean what is life but self replicating molecules? We got our start when proteins(or the one that formed dna and they started to copy, forgot exactly) starting making copies of themselves, and slowly they began to group together to form communities each serving a different function, alol the way until you get to an organism. Because of this, no matter how complex oyu get, it all goes back to replicating molecules.