Why are you here?

I'm talking about here on the earth, in this galaxy.

Here in this reality.

Here in this matrix.

Here Now, in this world.

Take your best guess.

I came here to watch the game.

cause my spaceship crashed here

I came here to PLAY the game.

So you are a player are you? Hummmmm...

Who's winning do you think? The humans or the aliens?

I'm here to muddle my through life and have as much fun as I can along the way.

I'm here to be a slave to money then die

...Because the mummy bear liked the daddy bear, and one day, or was it night? The mummy bear and the daddy bear tried out all the beds in the gingerbread house, (cause they didn't like porridge)...

And then just a tiny little while later they discovered they were gonna have a baby bear, and the daddy bear ran away so fast that he left dust in this slipstream, and the mummy bear got all sad, and scared, and so when the time came for the baby bear to arrive, she found a great cabbage patch, and some little fairies to look over the baby bear, and left.


....That's why I am here.

to help feed my children.

I don't know how well the aliens are doing,
but I'm scoring every once in a while.

to be the best person i can possibly be

That is the question that gets us all in trouble!

It's sort of the mind masturbation question of choice for humans. Instead of wasting ....., it wastes synapses away into oblivion!

However much obsessively wired (self-awareness meaning making machines) we are to desperately ask ourselves that question, and seek the ultimate answer to our vain self-awareness compulsion, THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T CARE!!!

There is no meaning to our being here. We, humans, are the source of all meaning, and none of it means anything to anything other than human beings, thus the hopelessness of self-awareness! It cuts us out from the rest of the universal scheme.

Our job, if anything, is to interrupt this incestuous relationship we have with our 'selves'.

Interrupt the relationship such that we could be in synchronicity with life for longer stretches than the short interruptions, those short moments of bliss, which show up like accidents in our lives.

How do we stretch those moments of bliss you ask???

Very simple and extremely complex at the same time.

Refrain from thinking that those moments of bliss (connectedness with life) are 'personal' moments.
Stop from being so vain as to think that those moments were meant for us personally!
Stop to be so 'self-awareness' vain as to believe that the rest of this non-meaning making universe, 'CARES' about us personally (false gods to fill existential gap).

Other primates don't have pointless 'neo-cortex generated' self-awareness meaning existential questions.

The supreme act of accomplishment for a human being, is achieving 'peace and serenity' in this universal context of meaninglessness, without giving THAT meaning, and thus not resorting to suicide.

Some wise humans have referred to this as 'trancending the 'self-awareness' illusory 'dead-end' condition!!! A feat of paradoxical magnitude to be certain!!!

How can you be so sure?

The mechanics of the organics is truly baffling...


My perception of the question was a rather esoteric query...

not a lesson in evolution.


But then what would I know?

I am still deciding between an UN cola, an Un carnivourous drink and an Un christian.

Ever heard of a reported case of suicide from any other primates than humans???

:)

Can we open the genus up to include mammals? If so... then the answer to your question is yes.

Ummm...Lemmings come to mind.

Oh whoopsie daisy...yep, are rodents considered primates? LMAO!!

Actually I have heard stories from zoologists who have reported animals that have become listless and have exhibited a complete disinterest in continuing to live.

In fact, if self-starvation is an acceptable method of suicide then there have been countless animals in captivity that have indeed committed 'suicide'.

An many of them weren't even primates. They were 'lesser' animals as well, if you're into judging the stature of species.

Suicide by intentional starvation is very common in the animal kingdom. It seems to be the result of a conscious loss of interest in living.

So I would personally claim that such reports of 'sucide' in the animal kingdom are plentiful actually. And not even limited to just primates.

Yes I have. But they weren't primates, just animals.

Both cases were horses. They had brain tumors. One of them purposely ran off of a cliff, the other one purposely ran in front of a semi truck. Yes, they knew exactly what they were doing.

I was riding one of the horses. (I jumped off.) The other horse did not have a rider. He just jumped off a cliff.

JB

voileazur,

A bit of a cynic aren't you?

Why should I refrain from thinking that my moments of bliss are personal moments? What else are they?

In fact every moment of my life is a"personal" one.

Every problem I have is a "personal" one.

It doesn't matter if anyone believes or does not believe that those moments were meant for me personally.

And as for the rest of this "non-meaning making universe" and whether or not IT CARES about us or me personally.. who cares?

Is that what you want? To think that a universe cares for you? Is that what you think this question is about?

Its not.

It is not a question that begs the universe for an answer.

It is about purpose. What is your purpose?

The universe is not the one who decides this, you are.

YOU ARE THE ONE.

YOU DECIDE.



Peace and serenity?

Boring.

You still have yet to discover your purpose.

JB