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May 5th, 2006, 06:55 PM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
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What is the purpose of life?
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To reproduce, then get fat, sleep a lot, and then die.
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What does it mean to be alive? (No, I'm not looking for a biological answer here!  )
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Your body takes in air, food, water, and excreats waste. You require sleep, shelter, and compaionship. If you hurt yourself, it hurts. You are self aware and can think. If were unable to do this, then chances are your not alive.
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May 5th, 2006, 11:35 PM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
Judeo-Christianity believes that we are here to glorify God.
(Every one else has given snippy responses, so I thought I would go with a more "charged" response.)
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
"This is my work and my glory, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." - LDS scripture.
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May 6th, 2006, 06:10 AM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
Just a few days ago, I was discussing the purpose of life with a colleague at work. He had recently watched a program on insects and their life cycles, and it was explained that the purpose of life for an insect is only to reproduce. They just have to grow and survive long enough so that they can reproduce, and then their job in life is done and they die. We hope that us humans have more of a purpose to life than just the biological function of propagating the species.
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May 7th, 2006, 03:01 AM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
The reall question is: Do we have free will?
If you believe in an omnipotent and omniscient god, then no we don't have free will.
If you believe in a purely scientific action reaction, relative forces, and all that mumbo jumbo, then no we don't have free will.
For each of these situations, there can be no true free will. If god is all knowing, we do not truly choose, because the path was already laid out for us when the universe was created. If everything is merely a mathamatical theoram of relationships between components of the universe, then we have no free will, because we cannot change how these things happen, because we ourselves are merely expressions of that equation.
In truth, I think the reality lies somewhere in between. I firmly believe that there is something more to life than a random collection of molecules, and that something is what makes us truly alive. Who knows? I certainly don't, but the reall question is, what is the point in debating it? Nobody can answer it one way or another, because ultimately, no on will know untill they reach the clearing at the end of the path.
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