I think the alternative in the idiom Revoltingest quoted is well known.
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Why Exist?
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PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
There isn't a why. It is tautological that this is what it is, not sometihng else.
That this is something else wasn't the question, either.
McBell
Admiral Obvious
Fair enough.
That is a rather interesting leap of logic.
How are you able to determine each persons "purpose" based solely on their answering how they go there?
waitasec
Veteran Member
no it's not...
no one has lived to tell about it.
It may be a leap for some but not in all cases.
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If one exists simply because parents had sex (random or not), then one is helplessly here. Additionally, if the awareness is also the product of random interactions of chemicals etc., then our awareness is also helpless. Actually that is what some religions also teach ".... all beings are helplessly tied to a string and rotate like automatons".
OTOH, if body is alone the self, or if the brain alone is the self, then at the time of death, the body or the brain should be able to protest "Don't bury me. I want to live. " or "Don't cremate me. I want to live".
OTOH, if body is alone the self, or if the brain alone is the self, then at the time of death, the body or the brain should be able to protest "Don't bury me. I want to live. " or "Don't cremate me. I want to live".
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Sorry for blaspheming your God -- the sausage.:sorry1:
But sausage again is the symbol. All that we do -- seek power, seek company, or seek knowledge -- we do for the sake of happiness of self. No one says: I do this to gain misery. Happiness of the self is the common goal and sausage or bacon or a nice piece of *** are all symbols.
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
Why? If the mind alone is the self, then the self is destroyed upon the brain ceasing to function.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I would ask you to prove that....but then it's a matter of faith....
and faith needs no proving.
The question you cannot answer would be....
if you go blind do you stop thinking or feeling?
if you lose your hearing?
your body fails to respond?
can't talk?
all of this at once?
I've seen a science documentary recently, and the doctors and physicists were trying to answer the question....
life without the body?
They had no definitive response.
Neither do you.
Heathen Hammer
Nope, you're still wrong
Why is it so common that self-evident statements around here are always met with demands of proof?
Mind is not the self. That is the point. Although, mind does protest at the time of life leaving the body.
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
No it hasn't. The mind only ever protests beforehand.
I agree. Surprised?
McBell
Admiral Obvious
this is nothing more than a statement of denial.
What is evident to one, isn't always evident to another.
muffin8or
Grand Canoe Wizard
Does there need to be a purpose? A purpose implies intent by a greater being and there need not be one. Humans seem to be the only ones who fret about purpose. Other life forms just get on with it. It's our bigger brains that come up with this stuff to make us feel like there is something out there.
Why did you post?