Why are we here?

Why are we here? Because this is where we are...

What is the reason for our existence? Who said there has to be a reason?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA730QtjOBE

I must be psychic, Penstemmon. I was about to post about that song, but I followed your link first.

It seems when someone asks this question it makes us sad to even think about an answer. There is so much wickedness in our world at the moment that we are left with very little confidence in our leaders who seem to sleepwalk through their reign followed by the next lot of sleepwalkers we are forced to elect next time.
If we banded together more as peers of the providing class (us working class) I'm sure we could do much more than we have done in the past.
Too many of us leave important social issues to 'others' to deal with. If we got stuck in more seriously we would maybe see why we are here.

I agree Worthit. There seems to be no rational explanation for our existence or indeed the existence of anything but at least, as we're here it would be nice if people tried more to work towards peace and happiness instead of war and misery.

To earn money to leave to the next generation?

Or alternatively

Because God made me

Why did God make you?

He made me to love Him serve Him and worship Him etc!

Going back to my convent infant school!

The chicken thinks the egg is here to make a chicken.
The egg thinks the chicken is here to lay eggs.

Does there have to be a reason?

I think that there does janerowena.
Some people dont feel settled not knowing. They feel that their life is a bit aimless.

The thread has been going on and off since 1 september.

Galen - I am driven mad by that circuitous argument for our existence! No wonder I left the nun-run school at which I started my education. I kept asking the "wrong" questions and was insufficiently biddable!

This thread may never have an end to it, because there is no solution. I am perfectly happy to accept that we are just here, and have to make the best of it while we are. It hasn't stopped me wondering 'why?' in the past, it's simply the conclusion I reached.

People have been accused of lack of imagination for not asking 'why?', even for lack of intelligence. I think some are simply more accepting and chilled about it. I don't believe there was a specific purpose behind our evolution, we are merely an accident of nature.

Good heavens, it's Sunday morning, I should be having a lie-in, and I'm still only on my second coffee.

We are here because "life" has an impulse to exist if it is possible. Each link in the chain, from single-celled organism to complex creatures who can philosophise over where we came from, fought to survive and to hand on life to its descendants.

Over the millions of generations, the form that life took altered and became more intricate and the alterations are still going on.

Why was the first single-celled organism here? The jury is still out on that, but the complex organisms are working on the answer.

Yes, that makes sense to me.

I was raised RC and we were taught that God made us to know him, to love him and to serve him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next."

When my dad was in the army they used to sing "we're here because we're here because, we're here because we're here." I'm sure you all know that song.

My guess is we haven't evolved enough to know the answer, best thing is to be as kind as possible and hope that there will be some sort of happy ending such as heaven.....

Why not? ) Maybe one day humanity will answer to this question. But right now we simply have to live, be better and evolve in something even better)

What about uncovering the impulse to absolute freedom. Divine existence.
Just because the western powers that be say that the physical existence is it and there is no such thing as spiritual reality, doesnt mean we should listen to that. Those male dominated powers and that scientific orientated philosophy are leading us to the edge of a cliff. We can wake up from this. I think that is our purpose.

:-)

Love, Gavin

samraj or Gavin How do we obtain absolute freedom and Divine existence?

Is it a case of keep being reincarnated in other lifetimes until we become pure and perfect? And what then? What do we do with the absolute freedom? Where will we be when we get it?

Freedom to do what? While we are alive, we won't be free to dispense with the laws of physics as unearthed by those unspiritual scientists and float on air instead of falling down the cliff.

And the "western powers that be" have not decreed that "the physical existence is it and there is no such thing as spiritual reality" They are busy finding out all about the incredible details of the universe, from subatomic structures to galaxies at the far edge of time, so they leave speculation about the metaphysical to those who prefer to look in rather than out.

I suppose each to their own, Elegran.

I have no idea why we are here but I could write a long list of those who really shouldn't be.

Galen, we are here because God decided to create Earth and have it filled with happy healthy people He could enjoy talking to and helping live and enjoyable happy life.

Satan got angry when God said to acknowledge Adam as being an amazing creation and from thenon he plotted how to spoil Adam and he did so by coercing Eve to disobey God - the result is the awful state of things at the moment.

God gave Satan 6,000 years - perhaps the same as God's 6 Days of Creation - to try ruling Earth to see what he could achieve but all Satan has ever wanted to do is corrupt all humans so they will deny God and thus be denied the chance to live on the newly cleansed Paradise Earth after Armageddon and when Jesus rules it.

If you had the gift of holy spirit you would be able to understand what I say.