I think it may be discovery. We're the only creature with creative imagination linked to curiosity-so just MAYBE,if we don't cock it up,we might eventually find 'the light'?
Pawn in a cosmic game? Don't know, but it's more hardship than fun ....so some lesson gathering experience? I speak for myself in saying more hardship than fun.
great one! we exist to exist, because we are a part of life. but it's up to us to figure out how to live our lives to the fullest
I don't think there's a point, just a process of life evolving over time. All the other above responses sound good ^^
Perhaps man's purpose is to overcome himself. To learn to walk from crawling, run from walking, dance from running, and to fly from the madness of it all.
To quote Joe Rogan: "I think human being are just a very complicated form of bacteria. I think if you looked at the earth as a living organism, and who's to say that it's not some sort of super organism? It's certainly a host for life, and we're considered a living organism, and we're a host for life. There's more ecoli living inside our gut than there have ever been humans on this earth. There's bacteria constantly around you, and your body is fighting off that bacteria, until your body grows old and dies, and then it doesn’t fight anymore. That bacteria just eats your body. That's what it's there for. If you looked at the earth as a living organism as you're flying into L.A. and as your passing all these beautiful mountains, and you see the ocean ahead, and it all looks so natural and beautiful, and then you see L.A. And you think, well, what the fuck is that? It’s a growth, that’s cancer. It's big, it's brown, it stinks, smoke's coming out of it, and it gets bigger every year. And it doesn’t matter what you do, it's going to keep going, you could knock it down with a hurricane and it just rebuilds. Light it on fire, it rebuilds. I think if you were an intelligent life-form from another planet, you wouldn’t see individual people, you wouldn’t see housekeepers and limo drivers, and stand up comedians, you wouldn’t see that, you would see mold on a sandwich. I think if you look at us subjectively and the way we're headed, the way we've always been, it doesn’t matter how much access to info we have, it doesn’t matter how much technological innovation we have, were always going to destroy the Earth, 'cause I think, somehow or another, that’s what we're supposed to do. That's our purpose here on earth. We are here to fuck shit up, I think we're here to eat the sandwich." Pretty much sums up how I feel.
^ We're still part of the earth (I think) and more like a major geological event causing effects on the system, like the extinction of other species and pushing the whole thing to its limit. Then, like the moldy sandwich, earth would be a body in transformation - with the help of bacteria and mushrooms who seem to be the real kings on earth, and as intelligent as we consider ourselves - just in a different way. But we are the sandwich - something just about to expire - whereas earth would be the mold, energetic and beautiful. In the end (and all along the way) it's about spirit manifesting itself in physical events. As human species we may feel trapped, or doomed. As spirits, we just learn and grow ... including the mushrooms, the rocks, the earth, everything. Changes ahead ! Just meandering ... Thank you for your thoughts
I was wondering about it when i saw this thread and basicly thought the point is the same for other beings on this planet. What is the point for cows for example? Or ants? So I agree the most with this one: Wether it is something big like we are the universe's developing consciousness seems not sure to me at all I'm afraid so it basicly boils down to just experience your part of the species you are. This seems to count for other species too. That we seem more creative/intelligent than the average creatures doesn't have to mean shit I guess. We just experience life in our own human way, same how cows live their way. So in essence, the point seems to be just living.
After my last trip... I think... to love. But yes, just generally to experience... to contribute individual experiences to the universal consciousness.