why do you think you were put on this Earth?

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
To ask why we were "put here" implies an intelligence that intentionally did so. We are not necessarily here for a reason; we could very well exist without underlying purpose.

If we exist, our existence holds "purpose" though it may be without moral compass.

I don't believe the OP intended to imply that there was a "higher purpose" or moral imperative to existence, just that existence of itself has purpose, which could be as simple as just continuing to exist.

It's difficult to discuss the subject absent from the religious implications, but we can certainly try.

 

[dirtboy]

What makes you so sure we were "put" here?

 

[J Heartless Slick]

"why do you think you were put on this Earth?"

My parents had sex without using contraceptives.

 

[monk3y]

I think it was for my complex cluster of cells... to meet another complex cluster of cells... and create another viable complex cluster of cells and provide it with necessary resources to do the same. 🙂

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
To be with Skoorbie! 😀

I'm interested to see what his thoughts are on this subject. 😀

 

[jjones]

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of their women.

 

[zbalat]

To drink beer and play golf.

 

[JBT]

Because my parents wanted a 3rd child.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
To ask why we were "put here" implies an intelligence that intentionally did so. We are not necessarily here for a reason; we could very well exist without underlying purpose.

If we exist, our existence holds "purpose" though it may be without moral compass.

I don't believe the OP intended to imply that there was a "higher purpose" or moral imperative to existence, just that existence of itself has purpose, which could be as simple as just continuing to exist.

It's difficult to discuss the subject absent from the religious implications, but we can certainly try.

Granted. Perhaps the "purpose" of life is to simply exist. I've heard one idea that it was to "defy entropy", to bring order to chaos, but that's a matter for debate. 🙂

 

[TheShiz]

i arrived, just like everyone else, through countless billions of random mutations that occured during the reproduction of a string of molecules. I am a carrier of my string, and my string has a desire to continue to exist after I die, therefore I must reproduce or break a cycle started billions of years ago. Also it isn't my string as much as I am its survival machine.

 

[KK]

To die.

KK

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: conjur
To eat Cheez Whiz while surfing the 'net naked.

You do this while posting in YAGT.org? :Q

 

[clamum]

To smoke weed

 

[oniq]

To do something to better humanity.

At this point it looks like killing everyone would do the trick.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: conjur
To eat Cheez Whiz while surfing the 'net naked.

You do this while posting in YAGT.org? :Q

<---- whistles innocently

 

[ScoobMaster]

Originally posted by: jjones
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of their women.

[Barbarian Mode]

That is the answer to "What is best in life?"

[/Barbarian Mode]

P.S.

Recite the barbarian Prayer:

?Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!?