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Looking for the Purpose of Life

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Brian King says that life’s meaning is a question of purpose; but what is the purpose of human existence?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/147/Looking_for_the_Purpose_of_Life
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In the expression ‘the meaning of life’, people more often than not mean ‘purpose’ when they refer to ‘meaning’. The real question such people are asking is actually ‘What is the purpose of life?’.
Meaning or purpose, this seems to revolve around whether either or both can be attributed to that which is essentially true for all of us, or only existentially true for some of us.

If you start with the assumption that in a No God world, any particular human existence is essentially meaningless and purposeless, what else is left but that which each of us individually have, existentially, come to attribute as meaningful or purposeful in our own life.

For example, suppose John finds meaning and purpose in all the things that money can buy. He is a passionate defender of capitalism as the best of all possible worlds for achieving that.

Meanwhile Jane finds meaning and purpose in all the things that money can't buy. She is a passionate defender of socialism as the best of all possible worlds.

Two very different sets of assumptions about meaning and purpose pertaining to human interactions in the world around us.

So, might there be a philosophical argument that resolves it? A frame of mind that does reflect the optimal or the only rational meaning and purpose?

Or, existentially, will this always be predicated more on subjective assumptions that revolve around living out in a particular world understood in a particular way?
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The purpose:

To locate, the calculation philosophy's identity selection reality, including options from the selection being the suspension line of news media's left-wing transcendence, of its application to house domestic, and the supefluous reference option, relative to the suspension line of left-wing transcendence/news media partnership being the physics inversion therapy for the Brittney Havers-brown legs only cigar smoking revelation from Wild Things 2.

The means, to locating this dimension: it can be either of the following;
sunlight's data storage system, of right-wing morality being invoked through theology awareness by theology (a Brittney Havers trope), or the alliance but not partnership, between the spirituality of finance defending itself through being limited, and the typical sequence of nastiness to spirituality mystery metaphor.

The identity, of this text, Streamline, an imparting by Brittney Havers of her ability to perfectly mimic Susan Ward's equation of reality self = magic self, is a theme aura politics by Brittney Havers and Terence Bridge.






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There is no purpose to life, it is a lot of protoplasm with an urge to reproduce. The rate life is generated and perishes should give a strong indication of this. As a person in society, one can claim for themselves a purpose to their life, as it is the burden of a conscious subject to introduce meaning into the physical world in all instances. In nature, purpose is to survive and reproduce in society it can be another matter. Purposes can be made in ones life providing meaning to existence.
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Philosophy Now wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 11:10 am Brian King says that life’s meaning is a question of purpose; but what is the purpose of human existence?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/147/Lo ... se_of_Life
There are many potential reasons for life. This makes the pupose for life ambiguous.

The author writes,

"Perhaps we’re looking at the problem the wrong way round. Instead of wondering what the purpose of life is from the perspective of someone who cannot see what the point is, it may be worthwhile looking at the situation from the perspective of someone who feels that they do have a purpose."

So we should personalize purpose. That solves the ambiguity.
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Philosophy Now wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 11:10 am Brian King says that life’s meaning is a question of purpose; but what is the purpose of human existence?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/147/Lo ... se_of_Life
To me,

The purpose of human existence is; to learn, and teach.

The meaning of 'life' is: living, or being alive.

The purpose of 'Life', is to make Itself better. This is done through teaching, and learning.
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One cannot take the generality of life across the board as having a purpose other than survival, reproduction, and food in serving the concept of life lives upon life. In a strange twist, one might say that nothing is really happening life lives upon life is just life maintaining itself but it tends to be quite painful. "Nature red in tooth and claw." Byron, I think. Life is one category for its essence is the same across the board only in structure and form does it manifest differently not in essence.
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