"The Purpose Of Life Is Not Happiness: It’s Usefulness"
Jan 27, 2019 21:28:06 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Everyone h**es spam Sici...
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I know bro, I gotta a lot of moving screens over here I get more than most.
I am now exiting this topic, see you guys in the next one.
I’m OUT !
Jan 27, 2019 23:24:51 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
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This is an open forum or did you forget that ?
This is an open forum or did you forget that ?
No I didn't forget it. How would you like it if I started posting recipes all over your drivel? Or nonsensical cartoons.
Jan 27, 2019 23:29:48 #
pafret wrote:
No I didn't forget it. How would you like it if I started posting recipes all over your drivel? Or nonsensical cartoons.
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Ok you’re right, sorry.
Gnite, late over here gotta get some sleep, up early.
Late.
Jan 28, 2019 00:37:31 #
pafret wrote:
Your statement, as well as Sicilianthing's unrelated response, give evidence that neither of you comprehend what was written.
If it is your contention that the purpose of a life is to satisfy the needs of the greater society then you have defined the role of a drone. Your subject title makes that assertion and the body of your post does little other than to attempt to justify the title.
My comprehension is not the problem. The problem rests in the premise of your posting, i.e., that either usefulness or happiness should be the focus of purpose in living things.
LIFE is the purpose of life. That encompasses all that is. Life is not one dimensional nor is it so in any living thing. Why on Earth would anyone suggest, much less argue, that a one dimensional purpose of being is a meaningful existence.
Jan 28, 2019 08:39:10 #
JW wrote:
If it is your contention that the purpose of a lif... (show quote)
The author of this piece sneers at the "ratrace" but while attempting to find a different philosophy to justify his existence he selects, as his idols, some especially successful members of the very group he castigates. I am in essential agreement with Bad Bobby's post as well as your last paragraph.
A life of service to others can be very satisfying as in Molther Teresa's efforts in India or Father Damiaan's ministry to the leper colony on Molokai. This however is the exception, not the norm.
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