What is the universal purpose of life? Is there any? 🤯

in #philosophy5 years ago (edited)

Sometimes you meet people who will force on the argument that there should be a meaning of life. When i say meaning of life, i do mean an universal meaning which means everyone should have the same meaning. You will meet people on the way who want to convey the message of religion. The first thing they start with is that we should have purpose. Otherwise nothing would make sense even the vast universe. If you really think about it,how idiotic it sounds that the vast universe having billion of galaxies would not make sense if we human live in a small planet in a small star would not have any purpose.

Now i will try to discuss in a way so that even achild can understand. Let us toss a coin. The result can be either head or tail. In both of the case the probability is 50 percent. So, in the same way there can either a meaning of life or not. So,i dont really understand whypeople ask what is the purpose of life? They don't consider there can be no universal purpose.

Now let us ask why are we insist on having a purpose. Well, because we think that we are important. It starts with the thing that we can only feel ourself no one else. So, we spend all our life to explain ourselves what we are,i mean our innerself. Lacan talked about it which he defined as mirror phase. I will talk about it another day. As we evolved in such a way that we understand more than only our basic needs, we cant not think that we will be vanished like birds or animals. So, we create the idea of universal purpose and after life as well, so that we can exist forever. As we think we are important so we came up with the idea that we are in the center of the universe and whoever opposed we burn them or put the in house arrest like Gallelio. Why can't we just enjoy this big vast universe and evey beautiful thing in nature without asking about its meaning and purpose. I will finish with asaying of Albert Camus. He said," if you search for the ingredient of happiness, you will never be happy and if you search for meaning of life, you will never live.

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