Why are we here?

Aka that isn't why, it's how (evolution)

Your guess is as good as mine, Ana.
Come back from death?

I didn't. It was that Galen.

You started it!

Sorry! This is all getting too much for me.

Shite me!

Depends what you mean by "here" and whether we are all in the same "here" or different "heres".

D'you mean 'come back from the dead'?

Come back from where, durhamjen?

I meant no-one will every get the right answer - because who decides which is the right answer?

Evolving is the how, not the why.

How do you know we will not know, rose? just because nobody has come back and told us does not mean that nobody knows. Maybe it's a plot to keep us thinking.

Why are we here? Biologically are here due to an accident of nature and evolution.
Why are we here? Do we serve a higher purpose. No.

Galen Is there a prize for the best answer? Or is there no best answer because none of us will ever know.

Why is not meaningless.

The reason why we are here is that we evolved over billions of years.
The question is are we still evolving? If so, into what?

I sometimes visualise us as similar to ants scurrying around, busily getting on with our lives, running along tracks, stopping for a chat, building towns, cities and then wonder if there is anything out there watching us just as we watch the ants.
However, do ants fight and kill each other as we do? Do they feel love or just act on instincts?

Why are we here? Why not?

If as Newist says we are a source of energy, it does not matter when we die. We are all part of the cycle of energy. We exist so that the world can exist.

All energy comes from the sun. We use that energy by living and return it when we die. That's it.

The second poem was wrong as the stars are not cold. Our sun is a star, and is definitely not cold.

If you don't believe in a higher being/purpose 'why' is meaningless.

Not if you don't believe in a higher being.

Why are we here is a religious question.

Why does there have to be a reason?

Robert Winston.

Yes, of course it is Elegran. That doctor bloke with the hair and moustache demonstrated that ages ago.

The question is, why bother in the first place?

Oh please - no poems.

Cop out.

What is the purpose of an egg? To become a chicken.
What is the purpose of a chicken? To lay eggs.

One of the most satisfying emotions a human can feel is love and fulfilment at the thought of children and grandchildren. In the direst situations, the first instinct is to save them. That could demonstrate that the purpose of a human being is to give life to another human being and hand on the chain of DNA.

Perhaps it is DNA that engineers us so that we preserve it and ensure its immortality. Maybe DNA is the puppet master that controls why we are here.

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