When you focus right down to it, every single behaviour and action from eating to love and even death can be sourced right down to a mechanism just to sustain the continuation of life. — ThinkingMatt
When you focus right down to it, every single behaviour and action from eating to love and even death can be sourced right down to a mechanism just to sustain the continuation of life. — ThinkingMatt
Look forward to hearing your insights. — ThinkingMatt
Meaning the purpose of life as its entirety is to perpetuate its existence. When reflecting on one’s life we can see that all our actions and behaviours are to essentially serve this greater purpose. — ThinkingMatt
If the function of life is to circulate and continue its existence. Then its purpose can be defined as its function. Meaning the purpose of life as its entirety is to perpetuate its existence. When reflecting on one’s life we can see that all our actions and behaviours are to essentially serve this greater purpose. — ThinkingMatt
Evident (for example) in the fact that people who suffer debilitating injuries or win the lotto both go back to their pre-existing level of self-reported satisfaction with life after only a few months. — ThinkingMatt
When you focus right down to it, every single behaviour and action from eating to love and even death can be sourced right down to a mechanism just to sustain the continuation of life. — ThinkingMatt
If the function of life is to circulate and continue its existence. Then its purpose can be defined as its function. — ThinkingMatt
When reflecting on one’s life we can see that all our actions and behaviours are to essentially serve this greater purpose. — ThinkingMatt
When you focus right down to it, every single behaviour and action from eating to love and even death can be sourced right down to a mechanism just to sustain the continuation of life. — ThinkingMatt
When you focus right down to it, every single behaviour and action from eating to love and even death can be sourced right down to a mechanism just to sustain the continuation of life. — ThinkingMatt
Perpetual Theory of Life
To identify the purpose of one’s life we first need to look at the purpose of the entirety of life as a whole. The entirety of life exists as a continuing loop of birth, survival and death. Where survival brings birth and death brings survival. — ThinkingMatt
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
... — Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953
ThinkingMatt — ThinkingMatt
say a fish spontaneously dies. A young seal comes across this fish and eats it — ThinkingMatt
Maybe we should stop worrying about the "purpose of life" or "the meaning of life", but we won't. We can't. It's in our nature to seek meaning, and when we can't find it already made, to create it. Man the meaning maker. There are not exactly an infinity of possibilities, but there are quite a few, enough to suit every taste. — Bitter Crank
Didn't I read that line in another post, recentlly? — Bitter Crank
Off topic, but why the hell do you always have several lines worth of space before you begin your comment? Is that part of the wisdom of pomo or something? It's bizarre. — Thorongil
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