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Replying to nobspeople in post #1]
Do we all have a purpose?
I think for the most part, yes.
This made me question rather or not we all DO have a purpose, how we know what it is, how we know when it's accomplished and what do we do, once it's accomplished?
Obviously you have reasons for doing what you do...hereabouts...or you would be elsewhere doing something else.
You seem to be speaking to the idea of having many purposes, some of which can be accomplished...and it can be seen in the doing of something, that purpose is created and fine-tuned.
For a non-theist I imagine that this is focused upon the tangible mailable reality close to hand, rather than finding ones purpose in relation to Andromeda, or a God - neither of which you can touch.
For me as a theist, at least I can see Andromeda, thanks largely to humans who created for themselves - Purpose - and the opportunity I have had in their legacy to me, is significant and appreciated.
That should inspire me to the Purpose of Legacy, but I am too poor and wretched to make waves which will be noticed by the crowd.
What I do have though, are the tangible inventions which help me to shape purposeful creations, which are still useful re those physically closest to where I am.
Like computer and software and hardware, it has given me opportunity to create purpose for where I exist, if not for why I exist.
This is because I am theist, and therefore just shrugging and getting on about creating purpose, I also wonder at why I have the opportunity to do so in the first place, because that is where the question of Purpose took me when I asked.
The answer comes in a form of a voice from within the darkness, [which I have come to refer as "The Mind Behind Creation] - [aka "a God" of some sort] and with that come strange accusations re delusion and/or Satan...and I wonder if I really even saw that coming re my fascination with the subject [The Voice From Within The Darkness.]
Did I even take that into account before blurting everything out into a world where there is no good purpose for such a thing as Delusion and Satan?
And does that come across as sounding like I am trying to defend both?