Why?
 

Well?

Why?

What's the point?

What's the purpose of your existence?

If any.

What is with all the exsistential angst going around? It's hard enough to just be myself and now all the people in the Cellar are questioning God and the Meaning of Life!

I'm here because I volunteered for the experiment. I chose a nasty habit and a melodramatic narrative. It's getting boring, but I'm sure I'll come out alright in the end. By the way, I am not dissing on your thread, SteveD, it's just an observation.

Don't hold back on my account... :stickpoke

42.

As good a reason as any.

Is there a purpose? Or do we do what we've been trained to do. If our ancestors didn't work, would we?

Our purpose is to prepare for death. Or rather make a feeble attempt at ignoring it, or running away from it.

The Dark Tower? Ka? 19?

yes, i'm still rereading The Gunslinger series. I'm on volume The Wolves of Calla now. all this because of the thread about what technologies would survive the fall...

Oddly enough, I find myself getting more and more towards the objectivist philosophy, the more I look at it.
I'm here to achieve some sense of personal satisfaction, and to enjoy myself. If that ends up being useful to society, more's the better.

Yep, that's about it.
- Pie

*sigh* I've been hacking at that one for.. damn.. most of my life. I used to think there was some 'purpose', however the older I get.. it seems to have little or no point other than to consume and breed to continue the species. (then again! maybe there is a point to it all and I just haven't stumbled across it yet... until then '42' will just have to do)

To show love when I can.

To allow others to show me love if they can.

To continue to wonder the purpose of my existence.

Well said, Brown. My life.... although seemingly meaningless is to help those around me. Those who deserve such help that is. A soulwatcher if you will. I give love and take pain, and all in all, I am respected for it. It is what I do, and what I will be doing till this body fails to exist any longer.

Why not?

Why why not?

As far as I'm concerned, I have two purposes. One, to continue to exist. Two, to leave things better than I found them.

Others might have a different purpose for me to exist, tho so you'll have to check with them.

I leave the "why" to folks who know better than I. I'm just a humbler seeker in quest of "how?"