What is the reason for our existence, is there one?

[RATTER15]

I often hear people say, (usually while discussing religion, spirits, ghosts etc.)
so why are we here, what is the point if there is no afterlife?

Does there have top be a point?

I see it: we are born, we live , we die, end of!

Why does there have to be a reason?

[oldexpat]

Death is inevitable and irrelevant. What we do in this life echos in eternity.

[wheaten]

I'm afraid that I am one of the 'why was I born?' brigade. If I didn't have a house, job (which I don't), pets etc someone else would have them. OH would have made a great dad but I didn't want kids and he knew that when we met.

Wheaten (have money, spend money, die), Well that puts a lid on my evening, have to clean the house tomorrow and wipe up dog pee, and then do it again and again and again. And I don't even get trollyed!

[laurababy]

WHO CAN PROVE THERE IS NO AFTER LIFE?

[laurababy]

Unsolved Mysteries - Life After Life - 1 of 2

[welshlibranr]

It's very clear to me! we are born, we then multiply, having done so, we have fulfilled our usefulness, and so in due course, we die!........in fact we are here just to further human habitation of this planet..................simple!......

[Mamyalynne]

We are here to put as much into our life as we can, some of us go on to produce and nurture the next generation and hope they do the same, as for life thereafter I used to believe but am not so sure now.

[naomi24]

Hi Tony. Nice to see you visiting. :o)

To suppose there is a reason for our existence assumes a designer who has hatched a specific plan for us and to whom we are unique. That is an incredibly arrogant assumption that turns out to be a bit of a contradiction anyway. So, ok, some of us are quite confident that we are extraordinary in God's eyes and that he has a very special plan just for us. But think about it. That plan is not really for our benefit at all - it's for his benefit. The only reason he made us was because he needed to be worshipped, feared, and constantly assured that he's the best thing since sliced bread - or even before sliced bread. And if we fail to massage his psychopathic ego, down we go - and it's bye bye for eternity! So much for loving mankind! With friends like him, we don't need enemies!

There is no reason for our existence. We are simply one species that together with many others inhabit a speck of dust we call Earth.

[mibn2cweus]

To the extent that we, each of us as individuals, understand what reason is, have learned how to identify, engage and derive the benefits of the process, we are here in our capacity as rational beings by virtue of reason for that and no other reason alone. To know why we are is to understand how we are what we are which determines who we are and ultimately what we can and should become.

No, reason is not merely an end in itself but a means to determine what ends can be reached and to discover the available means to reach an end that will be meaningful and worthwhile by virtue of its meaning. In embracing this, the next step in our ongoing evolution, becoming the eyes and ears by which the universe becomes not merely conscious but self-aware, we in concert with the universe that made us possible achieve a purpose as well, a recognition of the importance of our mutual existence, that of providing a realm in which and means through which reason might become manifest and prevail.

Apart from and devoid of reason there is no reason . . . for anything.

[jomifl]

a cosmic accident followed by evolution.
what is the point of an afterlife if there is no afterafterlife.