Re: Mind's Eye Re: Question of Purpose

I think this is a useful split RP - though I tend to wonder on purpose
in evolution. There are many examples of animal altruism coming to
light - I mentioned the 'slave ants in rebellion' recently but one
finds similar even amongst algae that live, for the most part, as
single-celled, but gang together when resources run out to 'flip' some
of the community to parts elsewhere by forming a stem with a flippable
node on top - those in the stem remain behind and die. We might
achieve world peace in human affairs (long overdue) only to be hit and
killed by a massive gamma burst from deep space. I wonder beyond this
as to a potential human purpose in a spiritual world - perhaps beyond
biological intelligence, perhaps with life embodied in machines and
later in the universe itself as 'we' really learn more. Against long-
term history 'we' are unlikely to survive as humans (though the algae
have been around much longer) and I suspect 'we' are deluded on human
individuality other than in the human world.

On Jan 28, 11:57 am, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To me there is human-purpose , yes , but no spiritual purpose. I was
> just using rhetoric in my original post.
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> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Lee Douglas <leerevdoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hahah ohh RP you are one confusing fellow.
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> > Let me see if I follow this correctly.  You define spiritual purpose as
> > being something that takes you beyond death, but your own belief is that
> > nobody goes beyond death, so then to you spiritual purpose is what, an
> > oxymoron?
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> > On Monday, 28 January 2013 09:58:43 UTC, RP Singh wrote:
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> >> I look after my children because I love them , I am moral because I
> >> want to remain a good person , but all these are human purposes. The
> >> spiritual purpose would be to take you beyond death. In my opinion
> >> nobody goes beyond death.
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> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Lee Douglas <leerev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Umm maybe there is none RP.
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> >> > What do you mean by spiritual purpose?
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> >> > On Monday, 21 January 2013 12:31:34 UTC, RP Singh wrote:
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> >> >> An old man suffers a stroke and becomes a vegetable for the rest of his
> >> >> life , a one year old child becomes sick and dies. What is the purpose
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> >> >> spiritual purpose for the old man or the child ?
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