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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
I don't think a higher power necessarily implies a sense of purpose...there's just a much a chance this space god of yours sneezed and we know more to him than some bacteria in Russia means to you. Is that why you're Christian? Because you need to think that the beginning has to do with you to feel a sense of purpose?
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Lmao. I am indeed a Christian (though I don't think you have the correct definition in the first place), but that has nothing to do with believing that I was born with a purpose. PEOPLE give meaning to their lives by living them; a higher deity only serves as a potential tool to motivate one to strive higher than their bodily confines allow them to go. Whether or not there is any reasoning to the creation of life in regards to this is completely and utterly irrelevant.
So give me a break here Ethan. Just because you can't see the link between an ideal being's existence and the quest for a living organism to find something more for itself than merely being here and moving in circles on every level of thought and action since the dawn of conciousness doesn't mean that its something others cannot see and reason for themselves.
Possibility is and has always been the only real reason for a human to try existing beyond insatible instincts which constantly need stimulation, because without something that goes above the inevitability of life and death the whole experience of living loses those colors that make it fun and vibrant. Hence, I see nothing wrong with trying to reach higher than what my paltry senses are able to perceive.