your core beliefs.
The obvious answer is God did it. We are here to go to heaven, or
reach God, or merge with the God head or what ever the dogma of your
faith dercess is the porouse.
Another answer is that we find meaning in our lives in what makes us
happy, indeed some would contend that this is the higest moral
obligation.
Yet another answer is all is pointless, there is no point and so do
what you you like.
Take your pick my freind which answer suits you?
On Mar 28, 12:34 am, malcymo <malc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Raison D'etre
>
> We are genetically successful in that we still exist. Historically our
> mutations have turned out to be apt for survival.
>
> We have been endowed with the ability to reason and thus question our
> purpose.
>
> Camus believed that human existence was essentially absurd. As Russell
> said 'All the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the
> inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined
> to extinction in the vast death of the solar system'. This implies
> that human endeavour id pointless. As Douglas Adams said the answer to
> life the universe and existence is 42.
>
> Realisation of this truth could imply that the only logical response
> is to give up on endeavour, even commit suicide.
>
> However, we do have a short period of life wherein we can experience
> emotions; happiness, pain etc. Although difficult to explain are real
> in the sense that we can agree on the pleasure or displeasure that
> such experiences give us. Likewise we would agree that we would like
> our short existence to be pleasurable, even for the masochist.
>
> Should we not be looking for the meaning of life; creating a meaning
> for life; endeavouring to change the human condition and society for
> the greater benefit of future generations. That one of these
> generations will be extinguished is of no importance given the
> absurdity of existence.
>
> Homespinner
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