Our Purpose Revisited

 

Human Beings were put on earth for what purpose?

This has been a question that has been asked by Philosophers ever since there were philosophers.

The only answer that they have been able to agree on is that no one knows for sure our purpose.

Some think our purpose is to serve God because we are all born with sin, and if we spend our days on earth serving his will, we will be rewarded in heaven for all eternity.  When we die, unless we are born into another body, we turn into spirits, a whisp of energy that carries our essence.  We will not know what life is like as an essence of energy until we die.

Others think our purpose could be:

• to earn as much money as we can
• to earn as much power & control as we can
• perpetuate the race by having babies
• to treat others as we want to be treated
• that we have no purpose at all except to live

No one knows who is right or who is wrong, and no one will know until we experience death.

What sticks in my head is the fact that our universe is ENDLESS so what's the point of the Human Race living only 80-100 years.  Seems rather pointless when one thinks about eternity.

What can we possibly learn about life in 80-100 years?

I do not subscribe to the religious point of view for a couple of reasons:

1.  We currently have 12 major religions in the world today, so which one of them is the correct one in which to believe.  I ask this because each of the twelve think they are right and the rest are wrong.  That's impossible unless all these twelve religions are somehow supposed to be combined.

2.  What about the millions of people who are born each year and none of them will ever be exposed to religion their entire lives.  If religion was the key, then why are these people left out because of lack of exposure.  That makes no sense either.

Another problem is TECHNOLOGY.  Each year technology advances forward, never backwards and in so doing will take the earth and its inhabitants into areas no one ever dreamed possible.  This steady advancement was planned or not?

Is it our purpose to advance to the point that we create machines or conquer death with medicines so that no one ever dies?

The universe is large enough to accommodate no one ever dying once we get to that point...  or will the universe destroy itself before that happens or after that happens?

This is an interesting dilemma or maybe even a paradox because EVERYTHING HAS ENTROPY.

• Human beings
• Machines
• The Universe 

Is our ultimate purpose nothing more than to move towards entropy and everything else is irrelevant and meaningless?