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Subject: Does the universe have a purpose?

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Thought provoking. Have an argument about religion if you want, but it would be mature of you to not.

  • 11.30.2012 8:41 AM PDT

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I don't think it needs one. It just is. Will watch the video later.

  • 11.30.2012 8:42 AM PDT

Dear tomorrow, Find some sensibility, Respond to emotion.
Dear Politician, Define sagacity,
All chances of survival are beginning to diminish.
Comedy is no excuse for our own blasphemies.
Mass media, Mass pessimism, Mass Denial.
My television tells me to panic, but I don't think I'll listen.
The apathetic force us to persevere, with their backwards priorities.

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  • 11.30.2012 8:43 AM PDT

Take me into your heart! Accept me as your savior! Nail me to the -blam!- cross, and let me be reborn!

Yeah, it revolves around me.

  • 11.30.2012 8:44 AM PDT

I am a monument to all your sins

It doesn't need one. every person makes his or her own purpose in life, and the rest of the universe doesn't need a purpose to feel important.

  • 11.30.2012 8:54 AM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Nothing needs a purpose, we assign a purpose to things so they make sense.

  • 11.30.2012 9:03 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

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I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

Nope. It exists to exist.

  • 11.30.2012 9:05 AM PDT

Break the windowsill

The only purpose the universe has is the one we give it

  • 11.30.2012 9:06 AM PDT

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
-Nietzsche

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Nope. It exists to exist.
And it happened by accident.

Sort of like OP.

  • 11.30.2012 9:06 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
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Posted by: Disambiguation
Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Nope. It exists to exist.
And it happened by accident.

Sort of like OP.
This makes me think about the scene in Watchmen when Dr Manhattan is talking to Ms Jupiter about the cause of her birth...

  • 11.30.2012 9:07 AM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

I like the idea that the human species could be a large-scale experiment on technological advancement.

  • 11.30.2012 9:08 AM PDT

I believe that Jean-Paul Sartre said it well, "Existence precedes essence."

We are born and we give our lives meaning if we so wish it. There is no meaning assigned to any of us.

  • 11.30.2012 9:10 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith


Posted by: Bungie Sam
I like the idea that the human species could be a large-scale experiment on technological advancement.
42....42...Forty Two. 21 X 2....Four tee too

Why can't I get this number from my brain...???

Why?

There is something special...its an...an answer...answer to what?[fourtytwo] what is the question!!!?

  • 11.30.2012 9:11 AM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

It is our purpose to assign purpose to existence.

  • 11.30.2012 9:11 AM PDT

Purpose is subjective and something which, some, humans apply to all systems in order for them to be able to try to comprehend their existence - however, labelling different purposes to the universe as a whole is a meaningless task and is rather pointless.

Science describes and explains the universe and all of its intricacies in a meaningful way - it allows us to, essentially, understand how everything works and why it works the way it does. The laws of physics do not have a higher purpose, per se, they just work because they're fundamental aspects of the universe as a whole - labelling them with purpose is pointless.

Therefore, if you want to cut away all this philosophical, religious bs (no offense to religious people, just to religion itself) and actually start learning the truth behind everything we observe, posit and question - then study science; don't pontificate philosophical rubbish as it is meaningless.

  • 11.30.2012 9:13 AM PDT

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Posted by: Bungie Sam
I like the idea that the human species could be a large-scale experiment on technological advancement.


you made me think of this....

  • 11.30.2012 9:18 AM PDT

:)

Even if it does have a purpose it wouldn't be something we could comprehend.

  • 11.30.2012 9:28 AM PDT


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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Nope. It exists to exist.
And it happened by accident.
Which, to me, is pretty amazing and wonderful.

[Edited on 11.30.2012 10:02 AM PST]

  • 11.30.2012 10:01 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

It has "space" so that "objects" have some-where to exist.
It has "time" so that there is some-when for "energy" to cause those various "objects" to interact and events can occur.

Tada! Spacetime and relativity in two sentences without exceeding 3 syllables, a whiteboard, waving my arms, CG or Hubble backdrops or using the terms millions/billions/or trillions as multiples of each other.

Let's see if I can deconstruct it farther.

No space, no matter. No time, no energy, no events.

Wohooo! only 2 syllable words and 10 total! I rule!

  • 11.30.2012 10:04 AM PDT

I'm not the universe, so I don't really care one way or the other

  • 11.30.2012 10:09 AM PDT

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no.

  • 11.30.2012 10:25 AM PDT

Posted by: ravingmasher626
Even if it does have a purpose it wouldn't be something we could comprehend.

Very true!

  • 11.30.2012 10:26 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: SilverBulitt82
Posted by: ravingmasher626
Even if it does have a purpose it wouldn't be something we could comprehend.

Very true!

Some theorize and speculate (or at the very least, tend to marvel at) the fact that we are made up of samples of the same matter we see whizzing about our heads throughout the cosmos and that matter is organized into each of us.

A small and nearly insignificant "fraction of a fraction of a fraction" of the cosmos that is assembled in a manner that allows it to contemplate the cosmos itself.

Imagine one of your cells being able to conceive of you and know that it is a part of you. Now multiply that scale difference times an almost inconceivable number.

That is just a.... very cool thought. At least to me.

  • 11.30.2012 10:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
It has "space" so that "objects" have some-where to exist.
It has "time" so that there is some-when for "energy" to cause those various "objects" to interact and events can occur.

Tada! Spacetime and relativity in two sentences without exceeding 3 syllables, a whiteboard, waving my arms, CG or Hubble backdrops or using the terms millions/billions/or trillions as multiples of each other.

Let's see if I can deconstruct it farther.

No space, no matter. No time, no energy, no events.

Wohooo! only 2 syllable words and 10 total! I rule!


Yes but why space, time and objects. That's the real question.
You basically just said that things exist, and if they didn't exist, they don't exist. It's a nonsensical statement.

  • 11.30.2012 10:53 AM PDT


Posted by: Recon Number 54
It has "space" so that "objects" have some-where to exist.
It has "time" so that there is some-when for "energy" to cause those various "objects" to interact and events can occur.

Tada! Spacetime and relativity in two sentences without exceeding 3 syllables, a whiteboard, waving my arms, CG or Hubble backdrops or using the terms millions/billions/or trillions as multiples of each other.

Let's see if I can deconstruct it farther.

No space, no matter. No time, no energy, no events.

Wohooo! only 2 syllable words and 10 total! I rule!
Recon, you should have a special on PBS. I would watch it.

[Edited on 11.30.2012 11:08 AM PST]

  • 11.30.2012 11:08 AM PDT

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