What is the purpose of life?

[xeniv23]

Hand shoots into the air....."I know this one!  I know this one!"  The purpose of all life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide.  

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Purpose of life is the most important question humans have struggled with for centuries

Yeah, but then you get a combination of your group of stalkers entering the conversation along with a bunch of people who have been brainwashed with nonsense. 

I'm too tired to deal with all this.

Good luck figuring it out and get back to me when you do. 

You know where to find me ... one of the myriad Trump threads. 

 

Lord of the Rings, man.

Purpose of the life is to slay dragons.

 

[hotsun]

4 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

The ideal world is halfway between Thai culture and the west.

 

 

Well yeah no place like that exists. Both countries should have both bidets and toilet paper but they dont

[rwill]

The purpose of life is to create more life.

[Equatorial]

A similar philosophy is nicely captured in an outstanding book The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Be-Disliked-Phenomenon-Happiness/dp/1501197274

[ChrisKC]

You probably mean for humanity. 

 

Makes no difference

 

All life on earth is basically

 

Self-preservation and self-perpetuity 

 

For humanity specifically, there is individual and societal purpose

 

There is NO divine purpose - that is patently false

[Cat Boy]

On 4/25/2025 at 11:44 AM, Moonlover said:

Simple. Procreate the species in order to satisfy the demands of the selfish genes that lies within every living thing. (The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins)

 

Human beings bucked the trend set by nature, by  learning to talk, think and write and thus got themselves all screwed up.

With the population of humans on earth having doubled since 1970, to now nearly 8.5 billion, I'm not seeing that procreation or propagation got "screwed up", beyond the negative impact that suoer-abundance places which environmentally constraints would normally contain 

[Cat Boy]

On 4/25/2025 at 11:39 AM, Cameroni said:

"I'm  see now a new fashion, many young people choose to make self-improvement the purpose in life, to become better than others."

 

Self-improvement is makinf, creating, redefining oneself to be the best version or iteration of one's self. 

 

Not in juxtaposition to others, nor to be better than others. 

 

That's purely arrogance, not self-fulfillment, wellness, nor loving kindness to one's self or others 

[Hummin]

7 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_(42)

 

Classic

 

Humans looking for purpose, and making purposes where it is not 😉

[bbbbooboo]

hmm… to drink beer?