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Old Dec 20, 2012, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by fantasea17 View Post
Really Nihil, is that what you truly think? You must have SOME purpose.
A life without purpose is a life not worth living.
Why do we even bother waking up in the morning to go to work? Why bother studying? Why bother creating? Why bother even eating, reading, walking, talking, or even bother posting on this forum?

You see, you can tell me that your eyes have a purpose:seeing, legs have a purpose:walking, darnnit even your thumb has a purpose!! Yet the whole of you has no purpose?
Than what is the point in living then?

You know what that causes? Suicidal depression.
Thats when the downward spiral of depression starts...questioning what is the point in doing anything anymore, if it is all pointless anyways?

It just equals a bunch of wasted energy, and just tires you even more than you already are.

I hope you don't really mean that, because if you do then you really arent helping those who are depressed and are sucking the hope out of everything.

I don't believe we have a purpose either, other than to pass along our genetics and further the human species. However like Shanzy said we have the ability to create our own purposes. Richard Dawkins has a pretty good video talking this very thing, he calls them neo purposes. The video is called the purpose of the purpose.. I think having legs to walk, eye to see, and life to pass genes all seem to fit together in the same context of purpose.

I am not depressed tho, or suicidal.. I am pretty content, peaceful and happy with life. Not because my life is so easy, and not because I feel I have divine purpose.

Why do we get up, go to work, why do we bother ? Probably a big part because we need to survive.. to pass and further our genes. The other part perhaps because we want to, and because we can create our own purposes. I want to bother.. I want to bother because life is so interesting. The universe is interesting, the earth, the creatures.. It's all pretty amazing. I get to be here in a human body and mind to experience this.. pretty cool, even statistically. It really is not a question of why bother.. in my opinion it's more a question of why not bother, I mean you are already here.

I don't think offering different opinions about the subject of purpose is sucking all the hope out of anything, maybe different ideas can help others sometimes.

Depression and hope to me seems to be more a matter of perspective than a matter of purpose. Some people might want to use such purposes to help them with life, others don't.. but that doesn't automatically default to depression. Sometimes it can have the opposite effect.

I am also quite spiritual.. but without a divine purpose I understand that people can be confused how that works.
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