What is the reason for man to be on this planet?
If man is the highest form of intelligence in the entire universe, what is the reason for mankind to be on this planet? Most animals, even the smallest, appear to have some function, to breakdown what is left of other animals who themselves are here only as food for larger animals. Some animals keep other animals from overpopulating and area causing a famine among the species. What is the function of man? It appears that man’s whole function is to acquire power and goods to control and rule over other man and animals. How does earth benefit from mankind acting like that; if there is another reason please share?
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That sounds about right. lol
I really have no idea how to answer your question.
What happened to your other question?
I don’t know that we have a purpose, exactly. We just are.
We’re here to serve cats.
None. We’re basically a cancer on the planet.
You seem to be presuming a moral agency for various species and their positions in the food chain. Why should there be “a reason” for any of the natural world you see in front of you? It just is.
If you want a religious explanation, then talk to your rabbi. I can’t provide a religious explanation.
“If man is the highest form of intelligence in the entire universe”
This isn’t known to be true.
There is no purpose; that is a part of the whole massive-unexplainable-origin-of-the-universe thing that we’ve been making up answers to since our beginning.
We provide the universe with humanity.
Man is here to fuck everything up. Woman is here to say “Don’t fuck that… Fuck Me!”
Constant struggle of the cosmos.
My God has me to believe we are here to have a much higher conscious than anything ever created by God. We are to use our skills for both good and purposeful things. We are this regions greatest harvesters. One day I believe there will be a great balance between science and consciousness amongst mankind. Then we will all focus and learn how to manipulate other plants so that we may travel. We are essentially the universe exploring itself. This is common sense. We were bred to weed ourselves out of a common goal I believe. For instance, I don’t believe we are “just” living and that’s good enough. There’s always more to life. This is my instinct. Those born with out the intuition of wonderment aren’t mindfully fit for true exploration of the universe. These people tend to get stuck in their current environment. Those who wonder are always tinkering around with certain situations and applying themselves to goals of exploration. This isn’t an elitist statement, it’s just common sense.
We are harvesters, manipulators and are fully capable of figuring out how to get life onto other planets. The mainstream has us stuck in this mentality that were supposed to “find” life on other planets. There are a few select that believe mankind is supposed to engineer life onto other planets. We do this by understanding the chemical balance through other planets atmospheres and on it’s “grounds.” Much like how we can fill a spray bottle with chemicals to get certain functions, I believe one day we will be able to pump artificial oxygen, carbon and what have you into other worlds so that we can lay out the basis for what we perceive as life to exist.
It’s a very rough beginning of a thought. I don’t mean to offend anyone. This is just stuff I think about nor do I think people are imbeciles we just all have different functions and tendencies. Unfortunately through capitalism we are clouded in judgement of what we should naturally be studying.
There is no reason. We just are. Isn’t it wonderful?
We are here, that’s all, and even as we ask why, we should be celebrating our that fact every minute of our lives.
And somewhere else in the universe—actually, many somewhere elses—I daresay beings far more intelligent than we earthlings are asking the same questions and hopefully celebrating, too.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm
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I’d have to say that “man is the highest form of intelligence in the entire universe” is a huge and quite possibly wrong assumption. And there is no “reason” for us to be, we are animals just like all the others – through some luck or genetic anomaly, we’ve just evolved a larger brain.
@thorninmud “We’re here to serve cats.”
<opens cover> “Wait a minute! This is a cookbook!!”
Milo here: I am the highest form of intelligence in the entire universe.
Proof (You think it was easy getting him in that truck?)
We are the final test! Anything that survives us.. wins.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26
“The chief end of man is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.” – John Piper
oh come on, genjgal, that’s just silly. Don’t you think?
To protect the planet from asteroids. On a side note I thought when I first read the title to expect “what to we need men (males) for.”
@glacial nope, sorry I see nothing wonderful about it all!
The main purpose that humans have on this planet as I see it is to edge out, destroy and or eliminate as many other life forms as possible (including our selves) in order to invigorate the evolution of other plant an animal species.
@gailcalled To annoy one another?
Heh, made me think of Sartre’s No Exit.
We build better stuff than dinosaurs & don’t eat each other…much.
How strange we should be here at all…
@_Whitetigress: “We are essentially the universe exploring itself.” That makes a great deal of sense to me.
We could very well be an experiment in a petri dish, for the entertainment of a higher species
that we cannot see?
We could have just natuarally evolved over time just like plants, animals, and birds had evolved.
At least we have intelligence ,feelings, and a capable body to take us forward.
@FutureMemory; L’enfer, c’est les autres. Sartre was pithier than I.
@augustlan @CWOTUS @glacial As other species are said to have some function, either to other animals or the eco system, man could be obliterated off this planet and the planet would not miss a beat; much less man?
@ninjacolin We provide the universe with humanity. What type of humanity is that? Many would say we introduce inhumanity given our supposedly higher intelligence.
@Blackberry @Pachyderm_In_The_Room @syz @Inspired_2write “If man is the highest form of intelligence in the entire universe”
This isn’t known to be true.
And somewhere else in the universe—actually, many somewhere elses—I daresay beings far more intelligent than we earthlings are asking the same questions and hopefully celebrating, too.
Bet some here will argue with you on that..
@Whitetigress _My God has me to believe we are here to have a much higher conscious than anything ever created by God. We are to use our skills for both good and purposeful things.
I don’t mean to offend anyone.
Too late, you already have, not me, but those letters spelling anything other than dog offends many here.
@ninjacolin We are the final test! Anything that survives us.. wins.
I guess that will be the cockroach then.
@genjgal “The chief end of man is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.” – John Piper
I am right there with you, but to think that here is Fluther blasphemy, check out response to @_Whitetigress.
@Hypocrisy_Central What type of humanity is that? Many would say we introduce inhumanity given our supposedly higher intelligence.
Well, technically, humans aren’t actually capable of inhumanity. They would have to not be in-human to do so… which would mean it wasn’t human. And yes, that’s just a technicality but the opposite view is just a judgmental metaphor.. so, I don’t know which is more useless.
Deflect a Chicxulub-type asteroid saving 75% our Earth’s species from extinction.
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