The Purpose of Life

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What is the purpose of life?

You see many ask this question but don’t realize that in order to ask a question and get a logical answer, you need to know what you are asking.

You need to distinguish the fact that there is a difference between the purpose of life and the philosophical “meaning” of life that most people search for, and you need to define what “meaning” really means in order to get an answer and you can only get that answer from yourself, this statement I will explain in just a moment.

You see the purpose of life, or living, is to stay healthy, and sexually active, long enough to maximize the chances of perpetuating the species. That’s right, in layman’s terms, the purpose of life is to fuck. Damn that’s blunt. All mechanisms of your human body, from blood clotting to pain, the will of self-preservation (no one in their right mind wants to die, or feel great amounts of pain), hunger, and ego etc. are all biological tricks designed to keep you alliiiive. To keep your heart pumping.

Here’s an interesting fact, children are hitting puberty at unheard of young ages (google it, educate yourselves). Now why is that? A popular theory (and the one I believe) is that the reason why this awkward time is happening younger is that, currently, we live in times of extreme comfort. Compared to the life that our bodies adapted to thousands of years ago, we are in heaven.

Food is abundant and pre-packaged, life-expectancy is soaring with the advent of continuingly better medical practices, and we live lives of pure gluttonous pleasure. Our bodies, are adapting to this and saying, “Hey, life’s good, let’s take advantage of good times to make more babies.” And the length of our sexually active lives is…well…lengthening.

So you see, the purpose of our BODY’s life, is to perpetuate the species, plain and simple. But for the “Why am I here?” meaning of life, that doesn’t answer the question.

I think that the definition, “what WE DO with our lives” gives any real philosophical meaning to the question, and I think that the philosophical meaning of life, is to live a life worth living and only we can decide what a “life worth living” is and all we can do in our lives is to try and live by that definition as closely as possible.

So if you want to find out the “meaning of life” stop looking to others, or to a god, or to drugs, to find it. You must look within, and find what you want to look back on on your deathbed so that you can say, “I did good, I am happy and I am ready to die.” then you need to live your life by that, so that life can have some real “meaning” to it. Otherwise you give in to the idea, that all these “conquests” we do in life, such as getting a good job, or shooting a low round of golf, or getting that big part in the play, mean NOTHING because it will all end soon, and it’s all just a bunch of biological tricks to keep us from killing ourselves.

But you need to realize that what we do now means EVERYTHING, because we are doomed, so live a life worth living so life can have meeeaning to it. That is the meaning of life, or more specifically, living.

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” Amelia Burr

-Nick Lopez

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Or instead of that shit you could have just said the purpose of life is to knock up some chick while staying healthy. Have at least two kids so that the population doesn’t diminish.

Now I’m going back to my weed.

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I often believe that there is no meaning to life other than the one you give to it.

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Life is about growth and contribution.

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You think you’re alive?

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The answer is 42

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Are you sure the question pertaining to the meaning of life isn’t, “How many roads must a man walk down?”

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[quote]Tstud_9 wrote:
Are you sure the question pertaining to the meaning of life isn’t, “How many roads must a man walk down?”[/quote]

The answer is blowing in the wind.

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For me the meaning of life has to do with basically learning. I mean from what I can tell, our specific species has evolved over time from a relatively simple mamal that shared the planet with all others, to the dominant species on the planet. This has all been the progression of our knowledge and wisdom. Truly they don’t both happen at the same time, but with each misuse of knowledge, comes more wisdom.

Is it our species destiny to learn how to stop aging? Imaging what the world would be like if it was full of people who are never going to die by natural means. IMMEDIATELY, people would need to drastically cut thier reproduction. You just couldn’t suppoert new generations without the older generations dying off. So if people want to keep reproducing AND living forever, Most likley there would have to be a 1 child policy and then we would have to start getting mega serious about space exploration. Preferably to terraform a planet with no life on it but has the basic building blocks needed.

I also have a theory about god, but i’m not sure thats the way you wanted the question answered.

V

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[quote]Joris wrote:
The answer is 42[/quote]

Ha ha! That is funny.

I think about this a lot. Why are WE here, and I look around and often think to myself “Humans are doing it wrong”

What I mean by that is that humans are obviously going about life ALL WRONG. I am in awe of what humans have achieved, things like the space program, our progress in technology, medicine, and war.

In the past 50 years the human race has seen progress unimaginable, and it is growing exponentially. Yet in spite of our techonolgical superiority, we are still very primitive beings, living in a very primitive time.

Our future lies in space. But the timespan from now, to the point where we are living on Mars, and colonizing space is still very, very, far off. Hundreds of thousands of years off. If, of course, we don’t kill ourselves first with a nuclear war.

The answers to the question “Why are we here?” lie within the depths of space. Who knows what we will find?

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Human beings are simply meat-sacks. We attempt to find purpose in life because the notion that we have no value is kind of hard to deal with. Each and everyone of us is exactly as worthless as everyone else.

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congrats on the ephipany.

but does the “purpose” merely stop at reproduction. Or is just a stepping stone?

I like to think our purpose is to live for each other. =Relationships are life. Results of this is the advancement and the growth of humanity; but not the purpose.

Like Skaz alluded too, we are progressing in technology, but not in the thing that matters most: our consciousness.

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[quote]905Patrick wrote:
Human beings are simply meat-sacks. We attempt to find purpose in life because the notion that we have no value is kind of hard to deal with. Each and everyone of us is exactly as worthless as everyone else.[/quote]

your a nutt-sack.

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[quote]THE_CLAMP_DOWN wrote:
905Patrick wrote:
Human beings are simply meat-sacks. We attempt to find purpose in life because the notion that we have no value is kind of hard to deal with. Each and everyone of us is exactly as worthless as everyone else.

your a nutt-sack.[/quote]

I can be any sack you want me to be, the fact remains, we are all effectively worthless.

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your purpose in life = to reproduce.

if you look at everything biologically thats what it all boils down to.

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it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…

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People think they’re special, but that’s all a trick form our brains to make sure we breed and keep the species going.

Don’t kid yourselves, you purpose in life is to make babies with someone and nurture them to a stage where THEY can make babies.

Everything you might think about how we’re making exponential progress and all your self worth is all bullcrap formed by chemicals in the brain to make sure you don’t realize the truth and do something stupid like remove yourself from the gene pool.

If another alien species of vast intelligence came here, the first thing they’d think after seeing our cities is “OMG look at the fungus, it’s disgusting!” and proceed to eradicate us. Because we are nothing more than a clumped up group of cells designed to breed and for viable mutations (i.e. evolve) into higher animals.

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[quote]905Patrick wrote:
THE_CLAMP_DOWN wrote:
905Patrick wrote:
Human beings are simply meat-sacks. We attempt to find purpose in life because the notion that we have no value is kind of hard to deal with. Each and everyone of us is exactly as worthless as everyone else.

your a nutt-sack.

I can be any sack you want me to be, the fact remains, we are all effectively worthless.[/quote]

*NOT A FACT

everything and everyone serves a purpose. If they didnt–they wouldn’t exist.

The question whether we hold value is debatable. If we are a supernatural being’s creatures–than I say we do. If we came about by chance than we are valueless…significantly unimportant; everything we know is worthless as well.

Don’t mean we cant have fun, though.

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[quote]THE_CLAMP_DOWN wrote:
905Patrick wrote:
THE_CLAMP_DOWN wrote:
905Patrick wrote:
Human beings are simply meat-sacks. We attempt to find purpose in life because the notion that we have no value is kind of hard to deal with. Each and everyone of us is exactly as worthless as everyone else.

your a nutt-sack.

I can be any sack you want me to be, the fact remains, we are all effectively worthless.

*NOT A FACT

everything and everyone serves a purpose. If they didnt–they wouldn’t exist.

The question whether we hold value is debatable. If we are a supernatural being’s creatures–than I say we do. If we came about by chance than we are valueless…significantly unimportant; everything we know is worthless as well.

Don’t mean we cant have fun, though.[/quote]

We can about by chance so we are valueless.

Purpose is a higher order concept that appears to be something only humans deal with. Dogs don’t appear to contemplate their dogness and what it’s good for. If humans had smaller brains they wouldn’t have purpose because the idea of purpose wouldn’t be something they considered. I’d say that purpose is simply an evolutionary bi-product of an over sized brain.

Fun on the other hand is something everyone should try to have.

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A person is NEVER as important or significant as they think they are.

The purpose of life is to make more life. Plain and simple. If you want to know the meaning of life, watch Monty Python.

'splains everything in the movie.