Does life have a purpose?
The reason we read or listen to things like this is often because deep down we understand that life cannot be an accident. We seek to know more about Its nature. To form Life, to create Awareness, is built in to the behaviour of the Universe. Chaos theory now shows that randomness cannot remain - it always gives way to order; so order, not chaos is the natural state of our world.
So we are not here by accident. Yet we do create chaos by our poor, limited understanding of the world and our place in it. We generate randomness by senseless interference with nature, squandering resources, leaving pollution behind.
How many people do you know who don’t know what their purpose in life is? Countless people go from day to day, focused on meaningless things, never thinking of how precious and important they are. To know your purpose is to know how wonderfully important you are. To know this makes your life appear precious. To know this is to stop wasting your life, to stop de-valuing yourself.
Do you really think that such as complex creation as you is here by accident? To use an old example, if you found a digital watch in the middle of the desert, would you assume it just happened there by accident, by the rubbing together of a billion grains of sand and soil? Or would you assume it was made somewhere? Aren’t we more complex than a digital watch? How could we think that we just happened by the working of a random process?
Well, it turns out that is an argument considered insufficient by some. The proof is not in the watch, it turns out; that is merely strong evidence. The proof, for me, is not in the watch, but in our awareness of a watch; our understanding of a watch; our ability to recognize, to classify and to CARE about finding a watch, or a dinosaur bone, or anything else.
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