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Originally Posted by Betrade  I agree. I like life too. I just like the thought of existing for some purpose as opposed to just popping into existence randomly for no reason.
I guess the meaning of life is up to us individually. If it has meaning to us, then that IS meaning. If someone feels meaningless, then maybe they are. in their own eyes anyway. I guess we've all felt that way at one time or another; but very few remain in that state of mind.
WE sure do have a huge number of medicated people walking around and suffering from anxiety, depression and other "disorders" these days though. I wonder if these problems would be so prevalent if there were no drugs to treat them?? Somehow I don't think that they would be.
If one of my children felt that their lives were meaningless, I would be quick to point out the reasons WHY their lives DO have meaning and purpose from my perspective. If my children's lives had no meaning, that would be even worse than my own life being meaningless IMO, because they have absolutely given me an incredible purpose just by virtue of coming into this world. |
Evolution by natural selection is anything but random. This is a HUGE misunderstanding. The mechanism for Evolution by natural selection is random mutation. That part is random, but the actual selection is anything but random. The organisms are selected by any number of natural factors based on what mutations are of the most survival benefit.
Purpose, on the other hand is a human construct, a construct that is probably a result of evolution. So in a sense we give the universe purpose just be being here, and we are here not by random chance but because we are best adapted to our environment. I find all of this absolutely amazing, wonderful and beautiful without needing to be cheapened by some man in the sky who somehow just poofed it all into existence.
If we were all just brought into being by some "god," that would be pointless to me. We would be the result of the whim of some other intelligence. He could just have easily made intelligent jello to inhabit the earth. Instead we have the fortune of being the result of billions of years of evolution. We are the amazing, intelligent, beautiful, and flawed descendants of countless generations of survivors, and winners. I see much more purpose in that.