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Offlineundergrounder
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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: robbyberto]
    #7571676 - 10/29/07 01:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

We are not created with a purpose, but like redgreenvine's example of a tree, we can define our purpose through our actions.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: boxcarguy07]
    #7572621 - 10/29/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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May sound weird to you but aliens are statistically likely while god is definitely not





Ohhh yeah, I forgot how statistically likely it is that everything came together by chance.




im studying this in metaphysics. ochams razor states that out of two explanations the simpler one is right. it would seem simpler to believe that "god" had something to do with existance, rather than it being random. its a simpler solution to believe that there was an intelligent design behind this, than it being random. the way everything fits together is to perfect to be random. and by "god" you by no means have to think of that in the terms of the judeo-christian form of God.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: LedHead]
    #7572625 - 10/29/07 11:05 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Invoking God is not simpler because the idea of God opens up a whole host of problems, not least of which is starting an infinite regress.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: Ness1]
    #7572635 - 10/29/07 11:10 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

ness there will always be an infinite regress or brute fact needed. even if randomness was the answer it would regress back to a cause of a cause of a cause of a cause of a cause


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: Ness1]
    #7572822 - 10/29/07 12:27 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

It should be a rule to define "God" when you use it in a post.

Some people will think of "God" as an actual being.

Some people will think of "God" as just a consciousness.

Some people will think of "God" as just the right equations, :wink:.

Some people will come up with other things that I didn't type.

"God" is just an idea, like all the rest of them, open for personal definition.

All of this, everything, is open for personal definition.  That could be potentially argued as it's purpose for being, but other than that, there is no purpose for anything around you.

The physical may or may not serve as somewhat of a placement filter for where you stand in the next stage of the fractal, and that could be argued as one purpose for the physical universe collectively, but that's just a loose idea, and not too serious.

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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: robbyberto]
    #7572847 - 10/29/07 12:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The purpose of life is to find the purpose.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: Psilocin Dreams]
    #7572913 - 10/29/07 12:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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There is no such thing as purpose when dealing with things not created by man. There is no "god" that designed us, therefore we have no purpose all we have are functions. Most people seem to agree that being happy and making sure everyone is doing alright would be the ultimate goal, this stems from the evolutionary mentality of doing what's best for the group to ensure survival. My personal hopes for humanity would include the rapid expansion of scientific thought and science in general. I hope one day that we can meet an intelligent alien race and work with them to discover the secrets of the universe and share what we know with them. This can not happen until we learn to stop killing shit because it's different from us. (and just to clear it all up, NO I don't believe in god and YES I do believe in aliens. May sound weird to you but aliens are statistically likely while god is definitely not)



God i hate ignorant people like you. who the fuck are you to say that their isn't a god? are you Mr. know it all? now i'm not saying there is or not but for fucks sake people act like they know every thing when we know nothing. and your trying to say that our intellectual was a coincidence? fool...


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: LedHead]
    #7572944 - 10/29/07 01:09 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

it may not be random but its most likely not from a higher being unless we are descendants of a alien race and or we evolved to be "intelligent" evolution isnt random its intelligent


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: undergrounder]
    #7573010 - 10/29/07 01:29 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Just an off the wall idea:

The Universe has created us (and other lifeforms) to save itself. In order to express itself, the universe blew up, and from what we can tell, left "on it's own", it will not contract. So the universe created intelligent life. It will use our minds to find a way to manipulate the matter of the universe into reverse. This will allow the universe to collapse onto itself and be born again.

In other words, we are here to destroy the universe. Every time the universe bursts forth, it creates intelligent life to reverse the motion so the process can continue forever. We are simply prototypes of the beings who will find the technology to destroy the universe.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: Rahz]
    #7573045 - 10/29/07 01:41 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The REAL reason humanity exists:

"We need food when we pass through this section of the quadrant. I am so glad to see humans plumping up so nicely; especially Americans." ~ Zorg



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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: learningtofly]
    #7573762 - 10/29/07 05:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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Like whats the point really? Well for that matter does anything serve a purpose?




It's not for you to know. Sorry.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: learningtofly]
    #7574155 - 10/29/07 07:28 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Reproduce. That's the only purpose. Or do things to ensure the survival of the species, which is a thinky version of fucking.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: learningtofly]
    #7574172 - 10/29/07 07:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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learningtofly said:
Like whats the point really? 




The present experience of reality. :mushroom2:


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7574238 - 10/29/07 07:50 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

No evidence to back this, but what if the sun was cooling and our purpose was to create massive amounts of greenhouse gases to ensure that the temperature of the planet remained relatively the same. To keep the rest of the life on the planet going.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: WScott]
    #7574292 - 10/29/07 08:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

What if a lot of things :tongue: :hippie:


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My body I will give to pleasures,
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to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: robbyberto]
    #7575139 - 10/30/07 12:41 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I think this goes with what DimensionX is saying. But I dare not try to associate on an online forum.

I like to look at it all that there is no god, but we are all part of the same thing, this huge entity of planets and human and electrons. We are growing and changing to understand ourselves. Each individual is a part in the cog of the universal understanding, adding his or her own perspective. Sort of like this forum where we all have different opinions yet are linked through Mushrooms. This idea implies that overall we do not understand what our purpose is....yet.

So I quote the Gorillaz "Life is to know the definition for what life is"

Amen Del.


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The cave is full of tumultuous obstacles, webs seemingly inescapable.
There lies the path of knowledge forming thick and thin quantum fluctuations of living operations.
And its inescapable quality of beauty is far beyond the reflection of its depths.
Further I fall diving head first downwards into a black hole, plunging with intension to ascension.


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: WScott]
    #7575186 - 10/30/07 12:58 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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No evidence to back this, but what if the sun was cooling and our purpose was to create massive amounts of greenhouse gases to ensure that the temperature of the planet remained relatively the same. To keep the rest of the life on the planet going.




If that is our purpose, our purpose is utterly in vain. :lol: Greenhouse gases work to contain heat energy within our planet, but it doesn't work if the Sun doesn't continue its output of energy into our planetary system. Insulation works wonders for containing heat, but its not like wrapping a house in foam and then never running the wood stove is going to maintain the same temperature indefinitely. :shrug:


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Like being here
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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: LedHead]
    #7575244 - 10/30/07 01:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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ochams razor states that out of two explanations the simpler one is right.  it would seem simpler to believe that "god" had something to do with existance, rather than it being random.  its a simpler solution to believe that there was an intelligent design behind this, than it being random.




Sorry, but this is blatantly untrue.

Occam's Razor states that the explanation for any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible. It does not state that a simpler explanation more accurately represents the nature of reality. An explanation that is not based in demonstratable observation (re: g*d) is not designated as more likely to be true by Occam's razor, due to its simplicity.

It is simpler to believe that the light bulb turns on because of magic, than to develop an understanding of the nature of electricity, and the manner in which we have applied that understanding through technology. Misuse of Occam's Razor does not support a belief in g*d. :shrug:


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: robbyberto]
    #7575603 - 10/30/07 07:17 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

::sigh:: Isn't this just a rewording of "What's the meaning of life?"


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Re: Does humanity serve a purpose? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7575775 - 10/30/07 09:19 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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Reproduce. That's the only purpose. Or do things to ensure the survival of the species, which is a thinky version of fucking.




Correct.This is the only apparent reason for humanity. I have come to suspect that philosophy and spirituality etc are all unimportant (except to ourselves) aspects of complexity the evolution of the human brain. There purpose is to relieve and reduce death anxiety. Logic, observation and personal experience of over 50 years , points to this.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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