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if we had a purpose, that would be different

what i’m saying is… why assume that we have a ‘purpose’?

no other animals, as far as we know believe they should be happy, for example. it’s the ‘curse of conciousness’ to assume that we have some higher meaning to our existance than existance

perhaps our purpose is an ecological one; our planet was once covered in water. evolution of the planet appears to be trying to move as many particles as possible away from the sea bed (from sea-bed rock to plant, to fish, to bird or mammel, to mountain topsoil), so perhaps our purpose is to die and be buried on higher ground than our food was taken from, so that the nutrients in our body can trickle back down and feed the life forms that are physically below us, therefore allowing further growth at higher altitudes

just a guess

well as you say we are all connected. i believe that ‘we’ means every aspect of life, not just people, but animals, plants, rocks, energy (gravity, heat, light)… we are all connected. in a physical way we are (our bodies are made from the same molecules as a rock, a tree, a feather, the hair on a fox… everything) but also in a deeper way that our minds haven’t learnt to percieve in a tangible way yet

our planet seems to be trying to grow outwards from it’s core… i don’t know why, other than to sustain more complex lifeforms (such as ourselves)

so i guess our purpose is too feed the future. to do that, as Raj says, we need to leave it better than we found it, if we can

some would say that our learning speed is increasing. i think that’s questionable… how many people in the west would know how to grow their own food if the shops all closed tomorrow? but perhaps we are learning how to act in a more collective way, with each individual learning an area of expertise and depending on the others to maintain that aspect of society?

that’s a tricky one… learning more quickly? or learning less?

and are we learningthe right things? as a species we seem to have collectively failed to learn from our mistakes… otherwise, surely, there would be no more war, for example