Why we are here? why we exist in your opinion?

[Nottooimportant]

[RomanticRealist]

I think we create our own meaning. I don't believe there is an objective meaning to life, mainly because I'm an atheist and don't believe in a spiritual realm. Without a spiritual realm or some divine mandate, it's hard to back up any idea of an objective meaning to life.

However, I think we must create our own meaning, and I believe in trying to make the world a better place, aiming for justice, and being good to one another in social, political, ethical, and relationship terms. I think given that we have decided to create economies, societies, and power structures that can and often do create harm and oppression, our priority should be to resolve that. As a direct extension of that, I think we are unique in our specific ability to be conscious, communicative, imaginative, and intelligent beyond a specific level. I believe humans thrive when we use that empathy and compassion to build connections and care for one another as well. I think these things are most rational for our survival and in our nest interests to create societies where we can actually enjoy life and have what we need to thrive.

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[AddylynnNightingale]

We don't have a mission. We're just animals a bit smarter than the other species, but we do the same. We just live life and survive. Only difference is we're smart enough to spend time on recreation and drama instead of just looking for food and shelter.

[Nottooimportant]

So you believe that life is meaningless?

[AddylynnNightingale]

No. It's as meaningful as you want it to be. A few years ago, I talked someone out of suicide. To that person, life had no meaning anymore. I talked him out of it, he found meaning to keep on living again, he found a purpose. Look for a purpose and pursue it.

[Nottooimportant]

That's what i'm trynna do, thanks. I'm agnostic so i'm not sure if life has meaning or not i'm trynna do my best to enjoy it even tho the last year was so hard

[AddylynnNightingale]

You're not alone in this. We all have been in the eye of the storm or are currently there. We all fight our battles. I'd say life is something worth fighting for. It's a gift.

[Nottooimportant]

Thank you

[sawno]

To transform, it is the only thing you can not stop doing in your life. Any thought you have transforms a part of you, the air you breath transforms particles. The moment you stop transforming both yourself and things around you life is over for you.

But on a personal level we have many different reasons to be in this experience, and those I could not begin to guess for others. I always thought I had mine figured out but it wasn't meant to be, so now I am just enjoying the ride waiting for my purpose to find me again.

[Havthrills]

We are here for cake! Some for ice cream. Other for the booze.

We are here to exist. To be. To have thoughts and feelings. To take care of the world and each other. Imagine how boring it would be if there was nothing.

[Nottooimportant]

It wouldn't be boring because we wouldn't know nor feel anything

[Havthrills]

So true. But also, think of how boring it would be without cake.
We are here to be here. To live, have a life. To feel and to care.

[sage2021]

I am an older woman and I still haven't figured that out. I wonder that myself. If you think about it too long and hard, it scares you. What is the whole purpose of people being here in earth. I have no answer.

[slatyb]

There's no answer. Things have purpose only to satisfy the desires of some conscious being. There's no evidence that anything in the natural world was created for any purpose.

[20yearsolder]

We are here to survive and that's about it. To do as much as we can before our batteries run out

[AndrésC64]

Why? There is no why in the grand scheme of things. Each one of us has to determine why we are here for ourselves. No one can tell you why you are here.

[andreasderjuengere]

Because we can?

We exist to judge, rate, criticize, murder, exploit, berate, manipulate, rob, humiliate, oppress each other,

and to

fuck up the planet, its wildlife, its resources, its beauty, its balance.

[humanearth]

Because we have too much intelligence and have thumbs

Them two things put humans on top of the food chain.

If humans didn't have them two things, we would have gone extinct

[sean1234]

To glorify God BY thwarting the temptations of satan, by obeying the true rules and laws of Jesus Christ.

[jshm2]

What makes you think we are here, and you aren't just dreaming?

[Nottooimportant]

It is possible that i'm dreaming but that doesn't change anything. Why i'm dreaming? The question is why we are here no matter what the reality is. Why anything exists

[OfDeath]

Because our parents had sex and their parents and their parents etc down to the last common ancestor.

[Nottooimportant]

And why our first ancestors existed? Why life exists?

[OfDeath]

Chemistry.

[Nottooimportant]

You don't get what i mean i didn't ask how i asked why

[OfDeath]

There is probably no why. How is a scientific question. Why is an anthropomorphic attempt to relate arbitrary nature to our emotions.

[Nottooimportant]

I'm not looking only for scientific answers i think my answer is more on the philosophic side.

[OfDeath]

What's your answer?

[Nottooimportant]

I meant question lol

[OfDeath]

Ok. Well, I've given my answer. I don't think there is a pertinent philosophical answer to that question because the question itself is rooted in human emotion which doesn't have a functional connection with what preceded its existence.

[Nottooimportant]

I personally am agnostic and i don't know the answer too. I just wanna know other people's perspectives.

[BCRanger10]

To serve and glorify God.

[Nottooimportant]

Do you think god created the whole universe only for us to glorify him? You know how tiny our earth is right? Also why he did all of that what's the purpose?

[AndrésC64]

God sounds incredibly if he insists on being surrounded by sycophants.

[AndrésC64]

* God sounds incredibly insecure

[joeldalton]

We are the universe's way of experiencing itself.

[Nottooimportant]

So many different perspectives but there's no evidence

[joeldalton]

And?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

To glorify God. Everything is all about God and His glory.

[animesenpai]

We don't need a reason. We just do.

[Iron_Man]

We are here for the Lord Jesus Christ