FlyingTeaPot
Irrational Rationalist. Educated Fool.
Purpose is always subjective. To make purpose objective, is to believe that some one consciously set in motion this chain of events leading upto and beyond life as a means to an end.
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What is this objective purpose to human life everyone is so sure exists (and existence in general)?
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In addition to what Teapot said, a fellow on the radio, just as I was waking today, said, "Spirituality is meaning in motion." I found that appropriate to how I understand spirit, spirituality and meaning. Meaning is dependent upon our personal understandings, not only of how words are used, but how words appropriately signify the world. No two understandings will entirely match (regardless that we have devised and use dictionaries 
). So meaning is relative: as everything is meaningful, it is relatively meaningful.
). So meaning is relative: as everything is meaningful, it is relatively meaningful.
Purpose is assigned when something is created. There is a why for a creation. We invented a computer and IPhone for a purpose and many things are multifunctional.
This argument is called the watchmaker analogy and is has been refuted so many times that presently it is also known as the watchmaker fallacy.
I'm not giving an argument for design there. I'm simply saying that where there is design there is purpose.
apologies, I was assuming to much.
That is good.
For me, it is not an assertion but a certainty that I wish for unbroken joy. I do not know about plants. Each of us may affirm for oneself.
Anything I do -- such as love, hate, work, study, gain power, procure things etc. etc. -- I do for the welfare of this body-mind, taking the body-mind to be me.
The above is evident for everyone. What may not be evident is as below.
Teachers teach that that is a mistake -- it is mistake to act based on the notion that the body-mind is self. It is also said that the self is in itself happiness.
So, the purpose of existence is mindfullness. Never to forget.
The above is evident for everyone. What may not be evident is as below.
Teachers teach that that is a mistake -- it is mistake to act based on the notion that the body-mind is self. It is also said that the self is in itself happiness.
So, the purpose of existence is mindfullness. Never to forget.
I'll be willing to listen when you stop changing your mind
Unbroken mindfulness and unbroken peace/joy are the same.
I wrote mindfullness because that is a bit more fashionable. Will you listen now?
elmarna
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In the objective approach - I am a woman a human animal meant to propagate the spieces by produceing more humans and perpetuateing my genetic line.
As for the comment - "life is meaningless."
It is hard to support this. People tend to label and place meanings in the way they think and reason. To say life has no meaning is to insist you do not use this application.
Weather or not you can not place your personal self is just a stumbling block in your thinking. Yet, it is likely this same person has no problem describeing someone in the human race with a form of thinking that places meaning with them.
In a personal note: people are here. They exist. While I fail to see a meaning of why. In the animal kingdom we have evolved to a more higher placement with no real "goal" to obtain. To my understanding we are not born with a "mission".
Perhaps we are like most living creatures here.
Just to eat,sleep, deficate, propigate, and die.
It is simple and not glorified;but , direct and to the point!
As for the comment - "life is meaningless."
It is hard to support this. People tend to label and place meanings in the way they think and reason. To say life has no meaning is to insist you do not use this application.
Weather or not you can not place your personal self is just a stumbling block in your thinking. Yet, it is likely this same person has no problem describeing someone in the human race with a form of thinking that places meaning with them.
In a personal note: people are here. They exist. While I fail to see a meaning of why. In the animal kingdom we have evolved to a more higher placement with no real "goal" to obtain. To my understanding we are not born with a "mission".
Perhaps we are like most living creatures here.
Just to eat,sleep, deficate, propigate, and die.
It is simple and not glorified;but , direct and to the point!
FlyingTeaPot
Irrational Rationalist. Educated Fool.
I don't disagree with you. But the OP is asking about objective purpose. In a way, I think he is asking about the ultimate truth, not the materialistic purposes of man made creations.