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 What is the purpose of Life ? 
#572955 - 03/07/02 09:27 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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To decide and to declare, to create and to express,
to experience and to fulfill, Who You Really Are.
To re-create yourself anew in every moment in the grandest
version of the greatest vision ever you had about Who You Really Are.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#573001 - 03/07/02 10:18 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've always had this phrase stuck in my mind, I'm not sure if I made it myself or "borrowed" it from elsewhere.
"To live, to learn, to love"
I believe that in total sums up our total purpose for existance.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: razer]
#573015 - 03/07/02 10:34 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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To live, liquid on the breeze, exquisite in every detail as imperfect as it might seem.
please don't hold this against me, the drugs made me do it. 
That seems to have been on my screen for too long now and I've almost slid out of my chair.
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 Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#573040 - 03/07/02 10:58 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#573075 - 03/07/02 11:36 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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CWG rocks =)
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#573346 - 03/06/02 06:08 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Let experience be thruth, and words be lies.....
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 Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: Drisch]
#573423 - 03/06/02 09:19 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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In reply to:
Let experience be thruth, and words be lies.....
amen
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#573548 - 03/08/02 03:47 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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That about says it all.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: razer]
#573578 - 03/08/02 04:39 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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So what does it mean to live?
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#573650 - 03/08/02 06:09 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Does it need a purpose?
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: ]
#573934 - 03/09/02 01:02 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Does it need a purpose?
I don't know.... but for me it does need meaning, if people want to be happy with their live they have to make sense of their lives.. be conscious of what they want in live and dare acting on it, otherwise they would be unhappy.
I want my life to mean something. What that something is is for everyone to find out themselves. I think that sharing and living your life like this and share with others who live with the same intention (not necessarely expressed in the same way) can be and comforting and supporting.
"... at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem.
There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age."
- Ken Wilber, Up From Eden, pg. 328
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 Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: ]
#574053 - 03/09/02 05:45 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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maybe life's purpose is to find purpose, to make order from chaos and to find meaning in something that is essentially meaningless?
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#574349 - 03/09/02 03:44 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think everyone has a different purpose to life, because everyone has different goals/tastes/personality etc. We're all unique, so I think our purpose/meaning should be as well. I also think that through your life your purpose changes. Variety being the spice of life and all.
Personally, my purpose as I understand it so far is to a) have a good time without infringing on other people doing the same in whatever form having a good time is, b) help coerce other people into thinking about themselves and their relationship to the world so that they can find their own truths. I don't pretend to have all (or any) of the answers, and I might never have any of the answers. I don't even know if there are answers. However, through my cosmic adventure through this mortal coil, I've learned a lot about myself, and I'd like to help other people do the same. I think a large part of the human experience should be shared with other humans, because even if we don't agree, we're all in this together, one way or another.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#575053 - 03/10/02 01:41 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think everyone's purpose in life is to gain wisdom through experience. You experience something, you learn something from it. You don't learn from it, you will experience it again in a different or more intense form. You learn from something and you will still probably experience it again... that just life's way of testing if you really learned.
However, this may be everyone's purpose in life, but everyone goes about it in different ways. We are all on different paths of evolution towards the same goal. We all learn the same things, but at different times, and different paces, and in different ways.
The final product of this wisdom will be seen at the end of our lives, when we look back at what we learned, and then add our wisdom to the Universal Mind for all to benefit from. Creation takes another step in evolution. Repeat if neccessary.
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 Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: ]
#575500 - 03/11/02 01:45 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I agree with cynical to a certain degree, but I must also conside the existential part of me that reminds me that whatever purpose or meaning we find, WE find it. Every event or happening that we ascribe meaning to, we give it meaning in our life. I admit, life can be really funny, absurd even, and really fucking coincidental. What does it all mean? Shit, I don't have a clue. But as soon as you start putting meanings on things, you move away from pure experience and into the world of logic and words, which does no justice to the former. So, while I am quite tempted to think that my individual abilities are here for a purpose and my friends are here for a reason and that everything happens for a reason, I think that that simplifies and confines things too much and things just need to be let be. If you aren't looking for a reason or a purpose, then things can be just as magnificent, if not more, and you won't feed your ego in the process. Just my two cents.
all aboard
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: CuckoosNest]
#576018 - 03/11/02 04:19 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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BWAHAHAHAH!!
Strangedays: Purpose? Get off Shroomery.com and go get sexy with the female species. 
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: ]
#576080 - 03/11/02 05:32 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I see it as.. we're here to remember.. not to learn.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: ArCh_TemPlaR]
#576082 - 03/11/02 05:33 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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In reply to:
Strangedays: Purpose? Get off Shroomery.com and go get sexy with the female species.
I LOVE having sex with beautiful girls. (you get what you Love )
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#576124 - 03/11/02 06:25 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Any game in which perfection is easily attained soon ceases to amuse...
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: Adamist]
#576202 - 03/11/02 08:07 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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What other purpose in life is there but to learn?
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Droz
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: SherlockDrubu]
#576240 - 03/11/02 08:59 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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not to learn but to understand
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#576290 - 03/11/02 09:54 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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To eat and avoid being eaten until you reach sexual maturity.
To mate as many times as possible before you die.
To ensure your offspring live and breed.
That's all, folks. Thank you for playing.
What? That's too boring, you say?
Oh, right, that pesky cerebral neo-cortex thing you grew in last million years or so. That was only supposed to help you climb through the jungle more effectively and make tools to beat the shit out of the other monkeys, and somehow it took over to the point of negating 3 billion years worth of hard-learned instinct.
Now you've mastered Life. You think you're above it. Ok.
Here's a game that will keep you busy. The first rule is- stay in character at all times. It only works if you act like this new game IS "Life." Got that?
The rules are quite complex. You will spend the first quarter of your natural lifespan being taught them, trying to live by them for the second quarter, trying to enforce them on others for the third quarter, and after that you're pretty much too old to play.
You live to make money.
Money is the most important thing in the world because it can buy happiness.
The more expensive toys you have, the happier you will be.
In order to get money, you must work. You must work hard in school to become a more productive worker for a corporation later. Do what you are told. The more hard-working people in your country, the richer you will all be, and the more toys you will be able to acquire, and the happier it will make you.
And you'll be happier than those other people in other countries, which means you're winning and they're losing. This is important.
You must work all your life because you need to be married to be happy, and you can't get married unless you own a house. No one has enough money to buy a house except banks, so you have to work to pay the bank for the house. Then you must have children. If you do not want your children to become bums or criminals, they must go to college, which also costs more money than you have.
So put it on the credit card.
Debt is healthy.
The richer the corporations get, the more luxurious toys they can supply us all with.
If money is the most important thing in the world, who has the most money? That's right, the U.S. Government. So listen to what they say.
But the second most important thing is business; because corporations are the second richest things in the world. You must watch television so you can be shown advertisments. The entertainment you rely on for your daily social conditioning is supported by advertising revenue. Also, this is the only way you can know which corporations you should give more money to. If you buy the wrong products you will not be popular.
Popularity is the only way to get love, and thus sex (they're really the same thing, and they're both practice for marriage, the goal.) You should have learned this in high school. Of course you understand "Us versus Them". This is a delightful little sub-game that takes many forms, from Catholic vs. Protestant to Coke vs. Pepsi. The more tribal associations you display the cooler you will be, and the more other people are on the same side as you in each one, the more popular you are. This part of the game occupies the primal, reptilian, limbic system of your brain which might otherwise be revolting at the lack of stimulation of cubicle-based work, couch-based entertainment, and the society-wide erotic deprivation protocols.
Also, it allows the Governments (richest, and most important things in the world, ultimate deciders of private happiness) to spend trillions of points on impressive new toys for killing Them (the bad people, who are not Us) with. Making jobs, allowing more of Us to work and be productive. Allowing them to pay the corporations (dictators of Popularity, and thus Love) to keep you entertained. And therefore, happy.
...You're not happy? Doesn't this game sound like fun to you?
No?
What are you, an anarchist? A Communist? A TERRORIST? Some kind of new-age hippie fag? No matter.
You still fit into the game, of course. You may have missed the rules concerning the prison-industrial complex, and the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry, and their function in society, but you will find out soon enough.
 Have a nice "Life".
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#576314 - 03/11/02 10:16 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I haven't been asked this question lately. Cool.
Our purpose in life is to revel in our humanness, in this I AM. In the gift and the curse of consciousness. We must make the best game of it that we can, and rely on death to mitigate our eventual psychic or physical misery.
We must assign value (judiciously), and embrace it as valuable. If, in reality, this is ultimately an exercise in emptiness, well, we don't live in the realm of the Ultimate.
The floor beneath my feet is not really there, but the illusion continues to hold my interest.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: Xibalba]
#576328 - 03/11/02 10:39 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Xibalba, you obviously need a hug. Here's one. I'd offer you a hit, but looks like that's been taken care of.
I don't know your situation or your level of sensitivity. But even a life that is characterized by a certain degree of humiliation is worth living, especially if you believe that's all there is.
If I were enslaved in cruel conditions and had no hope of liberation other than by my own initiative, I would scheme and struggle for my freedom, even if it killed me, or I would resign myself, but I would not kill myself. The use of the imagination that I, a human being, possess, is too much fun.
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Asante
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#576620 - 03/12/02 07:44 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I did & do alot of thinking on Philosophy, Cosmology & like and on a regular basis come up with alot of braincracking questions & theories. I won't torment you with stuff like: "The ABSOLUTE void surrounding our Cosmos stretches out into Infinity, yet it's infinitely smaller than a single grain of sand..." so I'll go straight for the Main Vein.
In my opinion, every is pre-destined. Why do you exist? Well: why does my computer have Chip XZ-23? Because without it it wouldn't function and it would be incomplete. Swap "Computer" for "Universe" & "Chip XZ-23" for "Me" and you'll get a basic idea where I'm coming from. Since I think everything is part of a Whole and everything is linked by Cause & Effect that rules our particular Cosmos, I'd say there's no Freedom, no Free Will, and everything we do or don't is all part of our Role in the Grand Plan.
Now don't whip out the Prozac just yet!
If you follow this stuff along it's theoretic line, it can only mean that everything in existence (including YOU) is destined to resonate between Existence & Non-Existence into Infinity, experiencing everything there is to experience, living every possible life from every body/mind that'll hold your Soul. So what that we're pulling a Genocide on everything alive we know? So what if a Comet the size of NY state burns this planet barren TODAY? Everything in existence is ingrained into the fabric of the Universe, so NOTHING DIES FOREVER !!! On the lighter side: That very same bud you just smoked re?ncarnates forever too, stoning every Pothead in existence for All Eternity!!!
To bring you the News: I believe every one of us will Re?ncarnate without a beginning or end, we always have & always will. I believe there's only One Soul and that everybody else really is yourself in another life. The Totality of Everything I call GOD, but that's just me being religious. We'll live forever & experience everything possible into Infinity, unable to deviate from the Master Plan.
Now ain't that Purpose & Meaning enough?
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#576697 - 03/12/02 09:33 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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The purpose of life is to exist.
Peace,
MAIA
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 Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: Xibalba]
#576959 - 03/12/02 02:01 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
a bit cynical perhaps ;-D made me laugh.
one of my lecturers said to me the other day:
"the child must adapt to the system not the other way around!" - yeh maybe i'll think like that when i am not permantly skint and watching the whole world crumbling around us.
The world needs more sex, if i had more sex, i wouldn't be tapping a load of nonsensical abstract thought into a white plastic box whilst smoking bizzare plants to reduce my sex drive and fill my hard drive.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: MAIA]
#579000 - 03/14/02 06:00 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I won't bother to find a purpose untill I know for a fact that there is life. Am I really alive?? are all you people alive. Its hard to live when you dont exist and im not thourouly convinced that we do exist. Everyone is amazed at how miniscule we are in the universe but our whole gaping universe might not even exist, there is just nothing. I am sitting here typing but maybey im not even thinking or even really typing.
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Go through the orange yesterday
I watched intently for a while to both sides, infront of me and behind me.
I was impressed to learn there was another way to look... UP!
More impressive still was the fact that there were beautiful stars in this direction
Most amazing fact of all was the prospect of another direction when I was done with up. DOWN! Which, based on the feel through my toes would be a fine sandy beach!
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cHeMiCaLoRaNgE
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#579137 - 03/14/02 08:49 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hey, If you are looking to find yourself, you are probably looking in the wrong places. The answer does not lie in your thought process ( conscience ) but in your astral body ( soul ). I will start you on your limitless journey, where you go from there you will decide. Tonight as you climb into bed and turn in for the night, stop, think of nothing, but yet become fully aware of all your senses, your body and what it is doing, it might start to feel heavy, this is normal. Your body will eventually go into paralysis, make sure your mind stays on and alert as this is happening. Tap into your astral energy form by feeling the chakra ( energy ) flowing through your body, you might hear a loud bang when this is all happening, relax it is normal, do not panick. after or during this time you may feel your astral body shift, this is felt through vibration within the body and can be very intense and frightening, just relax. By now you will feel as if in a higher state of consciousness, you may begin to hear things ( voices, music, noises ). You will also most likely be treated to a visual trip, open your astral self into inner space, imagery, your thoughts will guide you visually . This is all part of the astral process, just enjoy it. This is the time to ask the questions you have been waiting to hear the answers to, to pray, or whatever you want, the possibilities are limitless. What happens from here is yet unknown to myself but I soon plan to venture there ( OOBE'S ). You may feel as if your body is floating, or trying to jerk away from itself. Your journey can become dangerous from here, so read lots a info before you venture any further.
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: Xibalba]
#579221 - 03/14/02 10:57 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I thoroughly enjoyed your post. Truly. But, I wonder about the perceptive guy who sees all this, and still registers all this cynicism and angst. I read this to my lady, who got the impression that you are perhaps angry that you are yourself taken in by all this conditioning, but cannot transcend it.
You can apply Alchemical processes to the 'Prima Materia' of Existence. You can learn to filter or Separate out useful elements; Distill out meaning from the obvious forms, and so forth. Take from all of these social processes the elements that you need to create the home or 'hermetic vessel' in which you can develop [gestate] your Inner Man, and recycle the rest.
You see the leaden dross of gross existence, but bewail its lowly nature. Why?Transform that which is leaden into that which is golden. Be in the world, but not of the world. You can learn to work for, and drive a decent car without having to identify yourself with being the driver of the car. One can reject gross materialism without rejecting the material. Materialism is what used to be called idolatry.
When the Mazda Miata came out in 1989, my ex-wife pushed me to buy one. OK, it was fun, but people jumped out of cars at lights to "Ooh and Ahh," and to them, I was 'The Man.' Today, I still drive that Miata - just and old car and I've long since stopped being 'The Man' to the eyes of the world. However, I still am the man who bought that 'toy' of a car. I didn't buy it to be 'The Man.' That was incidental. The world is incidental to the Inner Work. Fun is still OK. It is childlike. On the other hand, the pursuit of social status; of ego-aggrandizement; of wealth, is all about life in the lower chakras. That's all it is. Honor it as the Earth and Mother's womb that it is: Mother-Mater-Matter-Matrix of existence, and emerge from it. Transcend it. Be born again into the Light. Peace.
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 Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#579484 - 03/15/02 08:24 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think Timothy Leary knew the pourpose of life;
Turn on
Tune In
Drop Out
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Re: What is the purpose of Life ? [Re: StrangeDays]
#579779 - 03/15/02 02:50 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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If I look at other living things besides humans, the answer appears simple enough
live and create more life, create conditions which help the new life to thrive so it can
create even more life. This is instinctive. But humans are unique, we are endowed
with a sense of a soul and with this sense of a soul comes a seemingly insinctive thirst
for something more. I think Alphatrion said it very well, we need meaning and to discover
the meaning is the purpose of the human soul.
But then, I could be full of shit...
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