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Originally Posted by GrandmasterTheGameOfLife  Quote:
Originally Posted by pseudonous Well, Quote: |
ALL LIFE strives to survive as long as possible...
| This is false. I will pardon your ignorance. When you finish collecting more data, please feel free to try again. | No, It is not False.
ALL LIFEFORMS DO STRIVE TO SURVIVE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
You can't even put up an argument for it. |
So survival is a purpose. It is a purpose of life for the simple fact that if you don't try to survive, you don't survive and can't demonstrate a purpose.
I don't, however, see any reason why this makes it a "meaning to life"... There's nothing that says "because all life before me has been driven to survive and replicate, I must do the same." There is no necessity for survival in any organism. There is no cosmic reason to propagate.
You have life. Life eventually ends. What you do in between is entirely up to you. There's no reason that survival should be a purpose. That other organisms have chosen to appear this way for all of the history of life says nothing to our purpose right now at this moment and in our own lives.
This sounds like the bull arguing with the lion. The human arguing with the divine. The image of the moon (the crescent shown in his horns) and the sun (the lion's solar face) illustrate the distinction. The purpose you illustrate speaks to the lunar consciousness of rebirth and a grasping of life for the sake of life and for nothing else. The alternative is the christ/buddha path to the solar consciousness into the sun. The sun does not go through phases of birth and death as the moon does. The sun is the source.
If you think that survival is your purpose, that's great! Follow your bliss! But it need not be "THE" purpose to "ALL" life. There is no such imperative.[/QUOT
You don't know and Neither do I...