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What is the purpose of life?

As a non believer I often wonder about this.

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Akfishlady 8 Feb 13
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to help those around you have a good life

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I'm somewhere between procreating, no purpose, finding joy, and just a freak occurrence of cells coming together in the right way at the right time. We're here, we may as well do something good. Or I've achieved my major purpose in passing on my DNA, I'm not sure how much use I am now except as a little cog in a big machine.

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I gonna Party until they remove me from the respirator. I don't know about you guys.

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I have always liked to use the saying of learning, laughing and exploring.

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"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!"

Lol

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Maybe the idea of life having a purpose is a byproduct of having evolved advanced consciousness and the prefrontal cortex. Animals don't seem to worry about such things. For them it's pretty much survival. Pets are a little different since their survival is taken care of, so they can live without worrying about those things.

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Hopefully, it is whatever you want it to be! Make money? Save the rainforest? Become infamous? Enjoy!

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What are we going to do tonight? "Same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world without supernaturalism!" The Brain, 'Pinky and the Brain'

jeffy Level 7 Feb 13, 2018
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I don't think there is any grand purpose. We can assign purpose, but those are individual missions people take on, not the purpose itself lending opportunity.

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I guess I fall under the life has no purpose vote. Never understood nor cared what the purpose of life is. Life happens because it can.

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to experience

marga Level 7 Feb 13, 2018
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None inherent, only made.

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Life has no inherent purpose. We propagate by exchange of DNA or some other form of reproduction. That doesn't ascribe meaning.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."

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