Why do we exist?

Hello everyone!

There are some questions that I never get a satisfing answer to, no matter how much time I spend thinking and asking people.

An example of such a question could be "Why do we exist?".

Do we exist to find out who we are? Do we exist to make the world a better place? etc.

But then again wouldn't all the problems we cause go away if we wouldn't have existed in the first place?

So guys what do you think about our existance?

Is there really a need of a reason for our existence?
Can't we just face that we're here in this world, in this life, and make the best of it?

I believe that every individual has there own purpose: Whatever makes them happy!

over and out!

Existens kan vara religiöst laddat, men inte nödvändigtvis, och av trådstarten att dömma passar denna tråd bättre i Filosofi.
Religion -> Filosofi
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I think that human intuition often drives individuals to try to find the "meaning" of things that have no meaning, but are rather a result of chance.

Example: A child dies a few months old. Some religious people explain it with "god wanted a little angel". Considering how nature works and the natural death rate of a species in young age can give us a hint that such absurd explanations are nothing more than pure fantasy. Not all individuals live to see their first birthday and to seek a reason for their death in superstition does not lead to a logically satisfactory answer.

Varför skriver ni på engelska?

Jag tror inte att det finns en anledning till att i existerar överhuvudtaget. Det, precis som det mesta, är bara en slump mer eller mindre. Att försöka hitta en reell anledning till vår existens är att värdera sig högre än vad man faktiskt är enligt mig.

OffT: Varför skriver alla på engelska då TS uppenbarligen är kapabel att skriva på svenska?

Actually we could exist by chance and it's quite possibly but then again wouldn't that eliminate the god as the creator?

I think I belive in evolution now, thx

That is true mate, sorry for posting in wrong section.

Well we cannot completely eliminate something that is not falsifiable (like god of the bible for instance).

We can however, by observing nature, see that the "god of the bible" might not be completely necessary to explain the world we live in and the events of our own and other individuals life.

If we by applying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor see that a particular story about a god does not help explain what we see around us (i.e. that applying the god-story does not make existence or events more understandable), we should eliminate it from our hypothesis.

Personally I refrain from saying that I "believe" in evolution, because for me it's not based on "belief". Evolution simply is the most plausible explanation for life and the dynamics of it in nature today.

de är random bara finns ingen anledning

hur dumma får ni fiolosofer vara

So if god exist he created us for no reason? Was he bored maby?

If you don't believe in god then there is no reason for our existence other than making sure that our species continues to live on by making children.

But we are already 6 billion people so that reason cannot be applied individually hence we have no reason to be here.

We can tell you why you exist but not what to do with your existence.

My view on my life: You know when your cellphone just dies and no longer work. Yes it is indeed completely useless, its not even good to throw at people. So what to do with it? Keep it, throw it away or recycle it.

It doesn't really matter what you decide so you do what you want to with it. Thats how I view my life. Its useless. I even feel like I don't belong here, for something to belong somewhere it must have a reason for being there. A purpose.

Which I clearly don't have so I just do what I like to do because it feels better than doing something else.

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