What's the point?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-03-13 03:28pm

Darth Wong wrote:Why do people ask what the point of life is? Why does there have to be a point? When you're having wild sex with some hot woman, do you stop in the middle of plunging your dick into her orifices and say "but what is the point?"

duh, that IS the point. DNA revolves around self replicating, therefore, the universe has manifested itself in us to survive. everything else is secondary, as anyone in a life threatening situation will tell you. Sometimes people do give their lives for other or some such bullshit, i'm not overly sure why this is, but it may be something to do with our social nature of our species.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-13 03:38pm

Why in Hell would the universe manifest itself around us to survive? It's trapped us in a solar system doomed to be destroyed in a few billion years by enacting a universal speed limit. We're just as fucked as it is.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-03-13 04:30pm

no, the universe doesnt depend on us, but for whatever reason, the way the universe acts created us to self replicate ourselves, that should be enough reason to exist.

Specialist · Post by **Specialist** » 2003-03-13 05:52pm

My purpose of life is to find a way to be immortal before I die.

Enricko · Post by **Enricko** » 2003-03-13 08:29pm

Some citations I don't even care to put into paragraphes:

"When you discover that life is meaningless, you'll find that Death is also..."

"What are you going to fantasize about in your Paradis?"

"It's there any value to Eternity?"

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-03-13 11:43pm

UltraViolence83 wrote:That shouldn't take long. The video game industry, I mean. Not your death. Live Long and Prosper!

Hey, just because Microsoft has butted in doesn't mean the video game industry is screwed. As long as Zelda and Metroid exist . . .

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-03-14 12:01am

Rye wrote:no, the universe doesnt depend on us, but for whatever reason, the way the universe acts created us to self replicate ourselves, that should be enough reason to exist.

We exist because our ancestors replicated. We possess their DNA, and therefore their desire to replicate as well. This observation simply describes our own current state of being, but it doesn't necessarily mean that replication is our purpose.

Linking a purpose to our state of being is an unfounded assumption. Occam's Razor would suggest that the more rational theory is that our state of being exists without the need to attach a purpose.... at least until such time as we find evidence for the existance of "purpose".