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Philosophy Does life have a purpose?, A philosophical question

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post Jun 3 2010, 12:50 PM

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QUOTE(nwk @ Jun 3 2010, 09:47 AM)
life is unfair. some are born ridiculously rich and some is born ridiculously poor. what kind of purpose is this?
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We cannot said life as unfair, there must be fews categories of people in society. Rich - Poor - Slaves. / Goverment - Citizens/ Oldman - Young man./ Humans - Animals - We should be satisfied as we are in the category which still has chance to write our opinion in forum. But not those Africans who are some eating trees' skin. nod.gif

We are deemed to be "unfair" too from the perspective of the Africans.

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post Jun 3 2010, 01:40 PM

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QUOTE(dreamer101 @ Jun 3 2010, 06:36 AM)
Dean: You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: Did he have passion?.


And now Greece is almost bankrupt. Not that I'm trying to imply anything though.

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post Jun 3 2010, 01:45 PM

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the existence of humans or any living things serves no purpose.
until now i dun see any advantage of having us( humans) ard as we are destroying earth.
perhaps we are created just by accident.
no purpose.

The only purpose for us to be alive is to realise our respective dreams.
Dream to be:
1 rich
2 intelligent
3 respected
4 u name it

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QUOTE(lin00b @ Jun 3 2010, 12:12 PM)
happiness was not even part of the equation. he's asking about fairness and wealth
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Unless he means the purpose of life is to be happy.

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post Jun 3 2010, 04:47 PM

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QUOTE(lin00b @ Jun 3 2010, 12:12 PM)
happiness was not even part of the equation. he's asking about fairness and wealth
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lin00b,

What is FAIRNESS in term of LIFE???

IMHO, it is FAIR that WE ALL have to struggle for HAPPINESS regardless of whether we are born in the RICH or POOR family. Furthermore, it is HARDER to be content when you are bornt into RICH FAMILY. It is HARD to appreciate stuff that are given to YOU instead of you EARN it.

When you gain something (aka born into RICH FAMILY), you lose something (harder to be content).

Path to HAPPINESS is CONTENTMENT.

If a person is NOT HAPPY, all the material wealth in the world is worth NOTHING to the person.

I have a cousin with RICH UNCLE. He NEVER have to work a single day f his life. He party all day and night. His wife and children left him. He died of liver failure because of over drinking. He was not happy...

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post Jun 4 2010, 02:21 PM

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purpose of life is to eat sleep and reproduce and die.
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post Jun 4 2010, 04:29 PM

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QUOTE(soul2soul @ Jun 4 2010, 02:21 PM)
purpose of life is to eat sleep and reproduce and die.
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is that the function of life or the purpose?
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post Jun 4 2010, 04:56 PM

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With respect to all seriousness and zen-talk here, allow me to interject with a narrow minded, simplistic, human-based "scientific take" on the meaning of our (human) existence:

The majority of us enjoy doing one thing: enjoying ourselves while we're still alive. If we look at how humans enjoy, there are basically 2 ultimate effects:
1. Our quantity increases exponentially via procreation (breeding)
2. We destroy our host (Earth)
3. And soon enough, we'll be exploring new planets - new hosts. Oops, that's the 3rd effect.

We're "given" the ability to multiply exponentially (monogamy-many children, polygamy-even more children, one night stand-whoa...) and we're "given" the ability to think (harvest for oil, nuclear bombs, making our own palm tree-shaped island). So you may see my "theory" already - we look kind of similar to the virus attacking ourselves (our cells), don't we?

Ok, that's my silly idea on our existence, not really on the purpose of our life. Please continue with the debate, it's interesting and I like it biggrin.gif


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post Jun 8 2010, 07:02 PM

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QUOTE(soul2soul @ Jun 4 2010, 02:21 PM)
purpose of life is to eat sleep and reproduce and die.
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i agree on the reproduction part , but sleep is more like a need than a purpose smile.gif
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post Jun 9 2010, 07:19 PM

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To me, life basic purpose is to experience, to understand and to appreciate.

To some others, on a different level of purpose, there are specific purpose, to give, to enligthen, to fight, to help and cure, to invent and to change.

And to many others, life is just clueless and will just live life because they are still living.
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post Jun 10 2010, 07:33 PM

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QUOTE(jaclynjac @ May 31 2010, 04:49 PM)
human exist in this world is with its meaning, without purpose, man are living with meanningless..
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Why you have so many accounts? All same pic of same girl, but all are selling same stuff.



Is this a dupe?!
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post Jun 10 2010, 08:29 PM

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Some people just like multiple identity. The just post to advertise, I guess. At least she has a purpose in life - to post all over lyn.

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post Jun 11 2010, 12:41 AM

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QUOTE(garytong @ Jun 10 2010, 07:33 PM)
Why you have so many accounts? All same pic of same girl, but all are selling same stuff.
Is this a dupe?!
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suffering from dissociative disorder i guess

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post Jun 11 2010, 02:23 AM

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When talk about purpose, so few comments. Does it means life don't need a purpose and asking a question knowing there won't be a convincing answer is not worthy? But want to talk about scientist's stuffs and this ain't phd enough? Or is it smart people don't ask stupid questions?

We don't need a purpose and will continue to populate, just like animals, so who says we are nothing like animals, even with intelligence, you don't give yourself a purpose, then what is getting a phd for? Trophy to signify smart people like a supreme human but have no interest in purpose.
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post Jun 14 2010, 08:50 PM

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http://www.purposedrivenlife.com/en-US/Home/home.htm
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post Jun 15 2010, 09:02 AM

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QUOTE(bluswhitehat @ Jun 14 2010, 08:50 PM)
religious propaganda ?
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post Jun 15 2010, 09:41 AM

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post Jun 15 2010, 09:48 AM

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Life does NOT have a purpose. We made it up so we can have a purpose to live on.
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post Jun 15 2010, 09:57 AM

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if u dont have a purpose to live, better u think twice about it....
there must be some reason behind smthings happen to u.... whistling.gif

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post Jun 15 2010, 10:49 AM

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QUOTE(Miri-Sarawak @ Jun 15 2010, 09:48 AM)
Life does NOT have a purpose. We made it up so we can have a  purpose to live on.
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agreed , so that we have something to fall back on and motivate us to move forward smile.gif

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