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I believe the purpose of life is joy. It comes from growth (ie learning, developing abilities, raising a happy family etc), and service to others (helping them

by lcall 9y ago

I believe the purpose of life is joy. It comes from growth (ie learning, developing abilities, raising a happy family etc), and service to others (helping them grow or have happier lives), and from knowing one's life is pleasing to God (which can be personally known, it's not all that complicated nor needs to be argumentative). The things you'd want someone to talk about at your funeral. This belief is connected to a strong belief that life has a background, a purpose, is eternal, and growth can also be eternal (I'm a Mormon). I think much about maturity models for the various aspects of life, and how to use/share them. I have written some things about that (more to be added later I hope, just haven't got to posting it), somewhere buried under the features descriptions at http://onemodel.org http://onemodel.org . This life is hard, but very good, and the best is yet to come.

eow328yhehj 9y ago
I believe it's about something far different. From two perspectives; one that discuses why humans exist at all and the other from my own perspective as an individual consciousness. Humanities existence provides no inherent meaning. That we exist is a result of physical laws of nature. From the perspective of an individual consciousness, my goal is not joy, but contentment which I'd describe as something like "reducing existential dread." I think humans have invented a number of ways of achieving that; religions, philosophy, technology. Some are more valuable to all than others, but no one should be behooved their personal spin on things outside the achieving of utilitarian good for the masses so they can partake in the investigation of those personal things with a clear head and as able a body as possible. I dunno why I'm so certain of this; I think it's due to two car accidents, and an emergency surgery leading me to "black out" and lose time. I'm fairly certain it all just goes dark in the end.

by lcall 9y ago

eow328yhehj 9y ago

I believe it's about something far different. From two perspectives; one that discuses why humans exist at all and the other from my own perspective as an individual consciousness. Humanities existence provides no inherent meaning. That we exist is a result of physical laws of nature. From the perspective of an individual consciousness, my goal is not joy, but contentment which I'd describe as something like "reducing existential dread." I think humans have invented a number of ways of achieving that; religions, philosophy, technology. Some are more valuable to all than others, but no one should be behooved their personal spin on things outside the achieving of utilitarian good for the masses so they can partake in the investigation of those personal things with a clear head and as able a body as possible. I dunno why I'm so certain of this; I think it's due to two car accidents, and an emergency surgery leading me to "black out" and lose time. I'm fairly certain it all just goes dark in the end.