Mirjt wrote:Ignoring religion and spirituality, there is no purpose to humanity, to life, or to any of us. We are a complex bio-chemical chain reaction which through a completely random set of circumstance developed sentience. We are gifted with the ability to experience and understand the world, lets enjoy it. The only goals of humanity are the ones we ourselves consider to be things we want to achieve, like the end of all suffering that we can eliminate, or the exploration of the world around us, or the creation of new experiences, and forms of pleasure, and ideas, and worlds. From my Progressive Christian viewpoint, I would also argue that God created us because they wanted to create us, their children, and our purpose or goal could be said to love and be loved by God and each other and develop a deep relationship with the all the rest of creation.
The mechanistic atomist view of the universe is proven to be wrong, Niels Bohr oberseved that subatomic particles are part of an indivisible system and David Bohm argued that the behavior of the parts was organized by the whole, the Universe is an organic whole, but as parts of the Whole ourselves we perceive only parts of the Wholeness. Nonetheless all things are aspect of a quantum whole and in seeking the Wholistic form derive intentionality - intentionality then becomes conciousness and vitality.
Our purpose then as concious, vital beings within the Universe is to complete creation, to achieve the Wholeness
- or in the words of the sages to “become one with the Spirit of God”
