Re: Mind's Eye Re: Question of Purpose

We may get sucked into the cosmos to form a new planet.//Memories
become spirit things along with all that we incorporate into our
peculiar ways of thinking- as from the arts but also from life/
experience- or those echoes of parental/social/religious warnings.

On Jan 28, 6:54 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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> > To me there is human-purpose , yes , but no spiritual purpose. I was
> > just using rhetoric in my original post.
>
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Lee Douglas <leerevdoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hahah ohh RP you are one confusing fellow.
>
> > > 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?
>
> > > 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.
>
> > >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Lee Douglas <leerev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > Umm maybe there is none RP.
>
> > >> > What do you mean by spiritual purpose?
>
> > >> > 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
> > >> >> , the
> > >> >> spiritual purpose for the old man or the child ?
>
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