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Why do we exist?

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heyjme1

When using cause and effect its always a good idea to think of both perspectives; of the cause causing the effect or of the effect casuing the cause (hope this makes sense).

Can you imagine a world with no life to perceive it?

Could you imagine a mountain just being there for teh sake of it?

Could you think that all this, up to now, for that is all we know, existed so that we could be here?


""No words""

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Ancient

I like to think of life like fire. Fire has no purpose... needs no purpose. It just burns. Life is this.

And god damn my sw pic is bad ass.


"Dark and silent and complete."

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gari

life = the power of semen.


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LucidZeal

Doesn't chaos allow for all posiblity - just may not be our lifetime or our planet. Chaos is the ultimate creation or accident - depending on how one looks at things in their universe.

"Everyone takes the limits of [their] own vision for the limits of the world." -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/


""Everyone takes the limits of [their] own vision for the limits of the world." -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/"

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CreativeDoom

I believe too that humans are a mistake... Look at what our kind has done so far, war, chaos, pain, offcourse their is a good side but that dosent make up for all the wrong that some of us did. That who created us just wanted to see how far can we go and I guess we went so far that he (the creator) could not stop us so he backed down from us. (Those are my thoughts)

I dont believe in god but I believe that their is an energy of some kind that created us that some people started to call it god, if their is such a thing as god so why havent he given us sign that he is here, maybe becouse it would ruin our existense or maybe becouse of some other unknown rules.

It could be that all this existence talk could be just a piece of shit and that we are just a very sophisticated computer system, but offcourse I dont know the truth and am probobly wrong.

For now I know what is the purpuse of my existense, to find out that purpose, but offcourse I cant focus everything on that becouse I have to live the life that I was given.

I hope one day someone of our kind will find out the answer before our time runs out and are existense will be destroyed.


"Time will kill us all... Time..."
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Ziltoid

If life had a purpose then it would be greater than existence itself, so there is no purpose but to understand what is.


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Arcanum

Misanthropic, yes, but I believe humans are a destructive species. The only species, for the record.
But humans are also the only specie able to love with that much zest and passion.
Flip sides, if you must.

I don't know why we exist. But I can theorise why we go on with whatever we get ourselves stuck in.
Once we are born, we sign a social contract. This contract is signed against our will. And this contract cannot be broken. PArents, relatives, friends, on cannot be born without bringing joy.

And so we toil and strive and slave our lives away, trying to fulfill this cruel contract. And along the way, we try to find as much happiness ad possible to make up for this unfair pact. And in the end, these two merge. Fulfilling the contract would be finding happiness. Fools we are. Helpless fools.

As for why we exist, I've no idea. Humans are a mistake. They are overqualified and start destroying things for personal gain.

I hate and love humanity at the same time.


"Some men are wise. Others are otherwise."

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     :   16yrs   :  
jacisc0416

There are many reasons one can conjure up for the reason humans and life alike exist; however, I believe each and every individual's purpose is to create their own purpose.

There is no "divine" reason for our presence, only the knowledge that we are here, and it is up to the individual to fulfill his/her own purpose - or fate, if you will.

Of course this could just be the most simplistic and easy to accept answer, but is not the search for an answer a purpose as well?

Just some random thoughts while sitting in my Computer class...


"Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine."

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