Talk about 'unreasonable beings", WHERE, EXACTLY, does this MOST ILLOGICAL, COMPLETELY NONSENSICAL, and UTTERLY UNREASONABLE ASSUMPTION and/or BELIEVE that "time began", which some of 'you', human beings, HAVE and HOLD ONTO, even come from?Belinda wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:34 pmI purpose this and that, just as do Henry, Lacewing, and all other reasonable beings. Reasonable beings are a minute fraction of all the beings that ever existed since time began and the huge majority these beings have been and are unreasoning beings.henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:22 pmAs I say...Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 3:07 pm
When you stand up from a chair, the "purpose" might be to go to the bathroom. That's not a whim.
When you pick up a pen, the "purpose" might be to write.
Especially as we can see in nature, there doesn't have to be any greater purpose than what is essentially divined or created from one moment to the next. Things are moving and flowing for reasons -- not by chance. That does not indicate a greater purpose.
A human's idea of purpose is for a human life. Such does not need to be applied to all else.
The Universe is not necessarily or even likely designed around humans and the limited way they think. There was a long time that humans weren't even on the Earth... they've been wiped out many times by nature... and there's no logical reason to believe that they are the pinnacle of all the creation they're aware of.
What is the purpose of a vast Universe of countless galaxies that we don't even occupy or need?
What was the purpose of the Earth long before we arrived on it?
Perhaps the problem for human beings is that we tend to think there's no value without purpose. Yet, "purpose" is made up. People have countless ideas about it. And even as we live our lives, many may see little or no point to life even if they want to imagine a greater purpose. It is possible to live a fulfilling life without imagining a greater purpose... so clearly, it's not needed. And since no one has or will be able to prove there's a greater purpose, what difference does it make? It's all just belief/imagination/claims at this point... and people don't seem to excel in/with life simply based on that. Actually, they may use such beliefs/claims as an excuse for "not living" their life more fully (or gratefully) while they have it, because they're waiting for the greater purpose which is to come. How much sense does that make?
In a universe 93 billion light years across, mostly empty but for a smattering of matter (most of which is just electrons doin’ the tango with protons); in this vast empty place where organized matter is so rare as to make hydrogen ho-hum; in this Reality where living matter - insofar as we know - even rarer still, has spread out over the surface of one little dynamic rock and has given rise to remarkable self-directing, self-aware matter; in the midst of all this escalating specialness, two discrete parcels of matter are stalemated on the essential nature of the individual.
No matter the scale: we are special. Even more so: each of us is special. In this big old, mostly empty, universe, there’s only one of each of us (so much the same, so much not the same).
There’s your ‘magic’, plain as the nose on your face, and that there is fact, not feeling.
Since 'you' here CLAIMED that 'you', "belinda", are a 'reasonable being' let us SEE if, and how, you can 'reason out' YOUR BELIEF that "time began".
Being SOMEWHAT 'self' aware is NOTHING like being FULLY 'Self' AWARE.
And, until 'you', human beings, are ABLE TO, and ACTUALLY DO, answer the question, 'Who am 'I'?', then if 'I' was 'you' I would STOP FOOLING "myself' that 'I' was 'self aware'.
'you' are the MOST SPECIAL one in thee WHOLE Universe.
BUT 'you' are NOT more NOR less special than ANY thing "else" is.
Unless, OF COURSE, 'you' think or BELIEVE 'you' are, then 'you' are, but ONLY in your OWN imagination, ONLY.