IS THERE A 'PURPOSE' TO LIFE? _____________________________ A lot of people ask me that question. Actually, no-one asks me that question but I pretend so. But that is no reason to not read this, although that is your choice, of course. If you believe that there is some 'purpose' to your existence, then you would probably belive in some sort of 'god', whatever that may be. That 'god' may be formed into a religion, the way of life of following that god. This religion created from your'god' is spelled out by those who purport to 'know' him/her or whatever and for whatever their reasons. Most of these people were 'high' on 'magic muchrooms, by the way...enter the Sharmans. Let's face it, we look upon the universe that we see (the stars, planets and so forth) from a particular vantage point. This will depend on our status at a particular time. As a small child, everything looks HUGE. As we grow older, our vantage point is mapped by our size and the data that we ingest from those around us. However, this vantage point, whatever it is, if rom the Earth outwards towards space. However, if you could taken from a more universal point of view, the planet (as we call it) we live upon is as a grain of sand in a vast desert. This tends to make us all rather insignificant from a universal point of view. This result of a plasma event we call 'Earth' is nothing to the magnitude of the universe, it reflects only what the universe has created us to be. That is beyond our present understanding. We cannot conceive billions, although we often talk in those terms. A billion quid/dollars/dinaros/people, what's that? Not a lot of people know what a hundred somethings look like. But we live in a world of hperbole. Life itself is only the individual you are, bounded by your immediate circumstances. Does life exist outside your house or room? Only when you get outside that house, then you populate another dimension (verify it by observation through your sense at the time). To conclude there is some overall 'purpose' in all this, is naiive to say the least. Our problem as human animals, seems to me to be: Why are we here? The answer is very simple. We are 'here' at this time and at this place because that is the way things are. That's it. Nothing complicated. The science of wading through speculative answers is fascinating, though. Human animals are, apparently, aware of being aware. We are supposed to be 'thinking' animals. But what is that really? It's just another dimension of the universe-as-it-is. Nothing complicated there. We have developed into trying to understand or comprehend our existence. That's fine but it does not pre-suppose 'purpose' unless you believe in a god of some kind; a 'universal being' that created everything. If that is part of your 'Comfort Syndrome', then so be it. I ask myself; why would some entity ('amorphous omniscience' as I once called it many years ago),  worry about a speck of cosmic dust that it had created in a universal laboratory ('Memorandum' essay)? What is so special about this palce? Let's face it, there is no 'purpose' to life. It came about, it will end. What we have, is that we are here in the now. Our only 'purpose' is to survive the best we can. That is an individual statement. The rest is philosophy tied in with the politics of some form of ownership (clan, tribe, country and so on, nationalistic gobbledegook). Man/Woman (in general) is a very sad animal. His/her development into a supposed 'thinking/logical' creature is a fantasy. As an individual, born without consent, you are on your own and have to survive one way or another, wherever you are. Failure to do this is to negate what you are, a product of the universe-as-a-whole, without explanation. 'God' beliefs as tools for domination of others is a curse. The religion thereby invented by others will be your personal downfall. I don't intend to let it be mine. So be it.

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