Taq writes:
If we are here due to the impersonal, non-teleological, stochastic workings of the laws of physics then the only purpose to life that there is is what we invent for ourselves. I think that is extremely important to understand, don't you?
Kind of.
Personally, I think that even if God created us for a very specific, special and important purpose... we have the ability to have a greater and even more important purpose if we invent one and give it to ourselves.
We are people, with conscious thinking minds.
We are not inanimate, unthinking tools.
Take a simple example: A parent has a kid in order to help them farm the land.
The kid realizes he loves to work as a doctor and healing others' wounds.
What is the greater/better purpose for the child?
The one given from the parent? ...to farm the land and help the family?
Or the one given from himself? ...to help others and be a doctor?
The question is not easy and may not even have a "correct" answer.
But, what is obvious is that the decision should be the child's (as they grow up) and whatever they think is best is what should be done.
The decision definitely should not come from the parent simply because that was their intention before the child was born. Such a view is simply immature.
In this sense, it doesn't matter whether or not we were created or if we developed naturally... the end result is the same... the greatest purpose is the one we can invent for ourselves.
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