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On Purpose

Chris Basinet - October 11th, 2008 in Commentary 0 votes Vote Up! Vote Down!

Everyone is seriously obsessed with purpose these days. I don’t really understand it.

I’ve seen, like, ten stream-of-consciousness notes, posts and blogs this week. These days, it seems like rhetoric is a popular guy.

And then you have “the meaning of life”. What kind of question is that? It’s basically the same thing as purpose, and it seems to be almost universally understood that the answer is just “out there” until someone finds it or the world explodes or something.

Mostly, the meaning of life is applied to humans exclusively, but that seems a little bit selfish. Wouldn’t that kind of purpose apply to all life? But then, I mean, how could you put one general meaning on all life? Not to mention that nearly all (99%) of the life forms that have ever been on earth are now extinct.

Honestly, I don’t really think that there is an absolute purpose of life and everything else just out there. A lot of people seem to think that means there is no reason for us to live or that our happiness means nothing. It probably doesn’t in context with the rest of the universe, but, (quote) “does any of us tie our fate to the cosmos anyway?”

What we do with our own lives seems a lot more important.

Tags: meaning of life, purpose

Rodrigo Neely says:

October 15, 2008 at 8:03 am

I think I am going to write a post on this issue as well.

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