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Originally Posted by Moneyguy1
With all these threads, the basic questions are still unanswered:
What is the purpose of life? Why are we here?
Seems to me that without a higher purpose (note I did not say "a God"), life is meaningless. And if this is the case, that is downright depressing!!
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Why does there have to be a higher purpose? What is wrong with enjoyng the life and family you have and doing everything you can to enable their future success.
So what if life is ultimately a futile process in a universe that will eventually die a thermodynamic death. The universe as we know it has existed almost 14 billion years without us and will exist for at least trillions of years after we are gone, so I don't think our presence is necessary to define its success or failure.
Enjoy what you can and realize that ultimately, your success or failure here is determined by the success of your offspring within our temporal window.