Saturday, November 7, 2009

Our Purpose

My prior post on 'why' is inextricably connected to purpose.  The question 'why' is equivalent to asking 'for what purpose'.

I believe everything has purpose.  This implied purpose is what drives all of science.  The scientist believes there is order and purpose to everything and this drives their curiosity to discover.  To be fair, science is often more about how than why, but they are very closely linked.

My first seriously deep why was 'why do I exist', 'what is the purpose of existence'.  I decided our purpose was to learn.

After some time I modified this to 'learn and help others to learn'. 

After much contemplation and study, I currently believe our purpose is simply to experience.  The more we experience the more we define ourselves.

This is our purpose - To experience life and to define ourselves in the process.

We are life/god experiencing itself.

This purpose is unavoidable for reasons I will explain in my next post, the Nature of Conscious Existence.

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