Philosophers: What is the purpose of our existance?

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<p>Don't get me wrong.</p>

<p>I'm sure plenty of you want to do other things in life. However, I firmly believe that our purpose of living is to mate. :D</p>

<p>I'm fully supportive of your desire to wipe out poverty. Personally, one of my concerns is global warming, yadda, yadda.</p>

<p>But if I could sleep with the hottest chick on the planet, those altruistic desires of mine sudden vanish. But that's just me :P</p>

<p>I'm sure you're a lot more caring than I am. Either that, or I'm more honest.</p>

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<p>Just more honest, robotFOOD. I'm with you on that. All the way.</p>

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For instance, I do not believe in the existence of people as stupid as you. Yet, you clearly exist.

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<p>I'm not the one who is agnostic.</p>

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<p>I appreciate it megalomaniac.</p>

<p>Anyway, why the bitterness businessman?</p>

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<p>Business_Man, you mind explaining that last one?</p>

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<p>Business_Man, yes, I am non-Muslim. However, what do you mean by "express your views in public?"</p>

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Business_Man, yes, I am non-Muslim. However, what do you mean by "express your views in public?"

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<p>Your freedom to express your atheistic views are limited to this forum. I wouldnt express them in public in Indonesia if I were you. Did you ever get your a** kicked over there?</p>

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<p>robot and megalomaniac, more honest? How can you justify sleeping with the hottest chick on the planet, rather than wiping out poverty?
Humans have evolved...
If people in countries like the US cannot see this, I have little hope for the future of the world. It always stuns me that the wealthiest people are usually the least caring.</p>

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<p>business_man, i'm not an atheist...</p>

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<p>Well, in my case, it's more of, I can't tell. I mean, it doesn't mean I would trade the ability to wipe out poverty in exchange for a chance to sleep with a hot chick. But I have to admit, wiping out poverty would not be my number concern at that minute. I mean, if I had to choose one or the other, I would choose poverty. But ending poverty isn't an evolutionary imperative for me. So it's hard to say.</p>

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business_man, i'm not an atheist...

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<p>Then what are you?</p>

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<p>business_man, what significance would my answer contribute to the topic at hand?</p>

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<p>People with different religious views will have different answers to the question of discussion.</p>

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<p>I dont know about the purpose of your existence and all that, but I do know that you would make my day if you went to the Dedication thread on the HS page and joined in the fun! Thanks! :)</p>

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<p>No need to spam threads, GDF. And I dont even know much about kate (today's person of dedication) .</p>

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<p>Hey, if you feel ashamed to express your religious views, then I am sorry. I dont think you would have the chance to express them to the Indonesian public often ;)</p>

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<p>Read the Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt....</p>

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<p>What's it about?</p>

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<p>Both ending poverty and mating have evolutionary advantages. Mating is obviously more direct, you create kids with your own genes, but having the desire to end poverty is also evolutionary in the sense that you give the chance for a much greater population of humans to survive and reproduce. If two different species existed, one that helped out others in need and another that selfishly let them die, the first species would most likely outlive the second. Of course, if all people who wanted to end poverty didn't mate, there would be no altruistic people left, so I guess they still have to mate as a priority, but that doesnt mean helping others provides no evolutionary advantage.</p>

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<p>Actually, I just realized that someone could make ending poverty a priority as a consequence of evolution if those who did prefer mating carried genes for a completely altruistic person, so random people like that could be born regularly without ever having to reproduce themselves.</p>