You hear it all the time.
"If there's no god or afterlife, there's no purpose. There's no real reason to live. What would be the point?"
It's a beginner's question. It's a question you could spend your life trying to answer, and it'd be a waste. There is no purpose, of course. Purpose is a very human-centric concept. We think in purposes and it's hard to disengage from that mindset.
But I think I've come up with an answer to the self-imposed purpose conundrum.
There is a doom. Heat death. Every star will die and the universe will be incompatible with life. It will come, and there is nothing we could currently do about it.
Or could we?
That, my sweet friends, is the answer you will currently find me giving when confronted by the purpose question. I'm ignoring love and kindness and all the rest of it, of course. That always smacked of the spiritual to me.
Initiate: "Fishy, if there's no god, there's no reason for us, no purpose. That's an awful way to live. What's the point in existing?"
Fishy: "The point, initiate, is to save the universe."
I am wickedly hungover.
"If there's no god or afterlife, there's no purpose. There's no real reason to live. What would be the point?"
It's a beginner's question. It's a question you could spend your life trying to answer, and it'd be a waste. There is no purpose, of course. Purpose is a very human-centric concept. We think in purposes and it's hard to disengage from that mindset.
But I think I've come up with an answer to the self-imposed purpose conundrum.
There is a doom. Heat death. Every star will die and the universe will be incompatible with life. It will come, and there is nothing we could currently do about it.
Or could we?
That, my sweet friends, is the answer you will currently find me giving when confronted by the purpose question. I'm ignoring love and kindness and all the rest of it, of course. That always smacked of the spiritual to me.
Initiate: "Fishy, if there's no god, there's no reason for us, no purpose. That's an awful way to live. What's the point in existing?"
Fishy: "The point, initiate, is to save the universe."
I am wickedly hungover.