Geshtinnanna

Being this is my last post here...
* * * * YOU

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Skepticologist

How quaint. You've attained a perfunctory understanding of Darwin's theory. Now, what else is new?

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WilliamBlue

How old are you? I was just wondering.

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ccsipapi

I don't believe that the meaning or purpose of life is to simply live for as long as possible. I think the answer (if there is one) is more profound then that. Throughout history there have been countless people who have sought to increase the quality of life by combating injustices and wrongs. Where these people simply trying to prolong there own lives? if so then why does a singer sing and painter paint, why does a doctor heal or a solider fight? Would no there lives be unchanged and in some case longer if they didn't do these things?

GrandmasterTheGameOfLife

19 years young

GrandmasterTheGameOfLife

INJUSTICE AND WRONGS are RELATIVE and only a matter of one's opinion.

GrandmasterTheGameOfLife

Also every Action Performed by a living creature is done to GAIN something or Prevent a Loss.

Geshtinnanna

If you think you know the meaning of life you are but a fool.

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Og

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.

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Jesse

Your argument confuses "the purpose of life," which is a question about the purpose of life existing at all, with "the function of life." Sure, life forms breathe, reproduce, and struggle for survival but that doesn't say anything of whether there is a purpose of life or what that purpose may be.

Edit: It would be my luck to stop reading responses just before the last one and then learn it contained a detailed response. Og was too esoteric-sounding in the middle for my tastes, but I agree with the gist of Og's argument.

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