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IcarusDream

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:52 pm


Advocate of Illusions
Life is not a simple object it doesn't have a "point' the real goal is for the person living it to decide.


Which is why I admitted the distinction between the purpose of "being" and the purpose of "living." Notice it.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:02 am


Genura
My purpose is speed. It's what drives me, it's what makes me happy, it's what I'm good at. Many might not think that's an appropriate purpose, or meaning, but enough for me.


Ah, but then is not your purpose simply self-indulgence? Indulging yourself with the fulfillment of your goals, speed of which is prime to me.
And that, my friend, would be my purpose. To do what I want. It is what defines my being. Perhaps it his not the purpose that you seek, but the cause, and effect we give ourselves to continue living. That is not reason. We have no absolute. We only see what is wright, and wrong, And we live on the thousands of variables that make up the soul.
So why not make up your purpose? It's much more fun than philosophizing what you think is the truth.

Genura


Gornwen

PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:46 am


Advocate of Illusions
This question shows just how human you are. The ignorance of humans makes us always question "why" or what is the purpose. Because humans care about nothing but productivity so everything to us needs to have a purpose or an end goal or we cannot understand the point of it. Life is not a simple object it doesn't have a "point' the real goal is for the person living it to decide.


How does asking why show ignorance?
Does it not show curiousity, the want to gain knowledge?
Is not ignorance not simply the lack of knowledge, but also the lack of wantingn knowledge?

And does meaning equal an end goal? Cannot a meaning stand by itself?
PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:02 am


There's no grand purpose in my mind, nature just took it's course and human beings were given the ability to think way too much into the subject.

If there's one thing you can bet on, it's that mother nature wanted us to reproduce. But since there's big spaces in between, you can basically do whatever you're physically capable of, as long as it doesn't impair other people's ability to reproduce.

People tend to pick self indulgence. Fine by me.

Sand From The Future(GTD)


IcarusDream

PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:50 pm


Sand From The Future(GTD)
People tend to pick self indulgence. Fine by me.


I think that, in the end, everyone does.

No matter what you set your purpose to be, you set it to fulfill your own purpose, set by yourself. Having the purpose of fulfilling one's purpose is having the purpose of indulging in one's purpose. Therefore, indulging yourself is your purpose, no matter what specific dictation you make.
PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:31 pm


The purpose of life is development. The truth of existence is disorder.

Humans are expecting too much from a system. Make whatever you want out of your life, but your specie's genetics will still be passed on in the end.

K-r-e-v-y-e-t-k-a

Timid Seeker


IcarusDream

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:33 pm


Miss Saffy
The purpose of life is development.


According to.....?
PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:36 pm


I don't think life has a purpose....if it has, then why don't I know my owne purpose?
What is the meaning of having a purpose if I can't forefill it?
That just doesn't make any sence at all for me....

miriampje


SaruCharmed

PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:11 pm


Life overall, I think that it exists because total nothingness would be pointless. I've tried to imagine it... I love the world and I love life, and I love how there are so many different things in it, and there are so many different aspects to it.
As for each individual life, I think that each life we have we have a lesson to learn, and we better ourselves. But mostly I think we are just here to enjoy the life we've been given.
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