Ever wonder how we got here and where we’re going?

[Jimmy Higgins]

Evolution answers the first question for me.
As to the second question," Nature has no purpose, it only has process" E.O. Wilson.

It doesn't really. While nature and reality might not have a meaning, humans still need meaning. What Nietzsche called "affirmative nihilism". We need to give life meaning to function. With a limited lifespan and a pretty insignificant footprint humans attempts to give life meaning is likely to be self agrandising.

You make the assumption that "We" need meaning to function. I and most people I have known just need to do what it takes to survive. As have most humans that ever lived. I have never been ambitious. But I have always been curious to know how the universe works. Talking about meaning is boring.

What's the point of surviving? There's no point avoiding to crash your car if there's no place you need to go, including where you are now.

Nature doesn't require us to need a meaning. It is something some people seek out. Human kind have no meaning. Our type of existence is a rare mathematical hiccup that is statistically very rare but destined to happen given enough time.

 

[WAB]

Evolution answers the first question for me.
As to the second question," Nature has no purpose, it only has process" E.O. Wilson.

It doesn't really. While nature and reality might not have a meaning, humans still need meaning. What Nietzsche called "affirmative nihilism". We need to give life meaning to function. With a limited lifespan and a pretty insignificant footprint humans attempts to give life meaning is likely to be self agrandising.

You make the assumption that "We" need meaning to function. I and most people I have known just need to do what it takes to survive. As have most humans that ever lived. I have never been ambitious. But I have always been curious to know how the universe works. Talking about meaning is boring.

What's the point of surviving? There's no point avoiding to crash your car if there's no place you need to go, including where you are now.

Nature doesn't require us to need a meaning. It is something some people seek out. Human kind have no meaning. Our type of existence is a rare mathematical hiccup that is statistically very rare but destined to happen given enough time.

Whatever meaning life has is up to each individual. No one has the business telling someone else that their life has no meaning.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Evolution answers the first question for me.
As to the second question," Nature has no purpose, it only has process" E.O. Wilson.

It doesn't really. While nature and reality might not have a meaning, humans still need meaning. What Nietzsche called "affirmative nihilism". We need to give life meaning to function. With a limited lifespan and a pretty insignificant footprint humans attempts to give life meaning is likely to be self agrandising.

You make the assumption that "We" need meaning to function. I and most people I have known just need to do what it takes to survive. As have most humans that ever lived. I have never been ambitious. But I have always been curious to know how the universe works. Talking about meaning is boring.

What's the point of surviving? There's no point avoiding to crash your car if there's no place you need to go, including where you are now.

Nature doesn't require us to need a meaning. It is something some people seek out. Human kind have no meaning. Our type of existence is a rare mathematical hiccup that is statistically very rare but destined to happen given enough time.

Whatever meaning life has is up to each individual. No one has the business telling someone else that their life has no meaning.

Those are two different statements. In nature, our lives have no meaning, FACT. Nature prefers that we reproduce, but it wouldn't care if we didn't. Otherwise, our existence isn't prerequisite for anything. There is no natural thing humans need to fulfill. We existed as a species for much longer before we made with civilization. No meaning to them... no meaning to us.

That doesn't mean our lives are meaningless, without purpose, etc... It is just from a nature standpoint, nada.

 

[WAB]

Evolution answers the first question for me.
As to the second question," Nature has no purpose, it only has process" E.O. Wilson.

It doesn't really. While nature and reality might not have a meaning, humans still need meaning. What Nietzsche called "affirmative nihilism". We need to give life meaning to function. With a limited lifespan and a pretty insignificant footprint humans attempts to give life meaning is likely to be self agrandising.

You make the assumption that "We" need meaning to function. I and most people I have known just need to do what it takes to survive. As have most humans that ever lived. I have never been ambitious. But I have always been curious to know how the universe works. Talking about meaning is boring.

What's the point of surviving? There's no point avoiding to crash your car if there's no place you need to go, including where you are now.

Nature doesn't require us to need a meaning. It is something some people seek out. Human kind have no meaning. Our type of existence is a rare mathematical hiccup that is statistically very rare but destined to happen given enough time.

Whatever meaning life has is up to each individual. No one has the business telling someone else that their life has no meaning.

Those are two different statements. In nature, our lives have no meaning, FACT. We existed as a species for much longer before we made with civilization. No meaning to them... no meaning to us.

That doesn't mean our lives are meaningless, without purpose, etc... It is just from a nature standpoint, nada.

Well yeah, I agree. That's why I said it's up to each individual, with respect to their own lives.

 

[aupmanyav]

Einstein did more with his mental exercise of a person throwing a ball in a moving train car than philosophers have ever done.

Who denies that? There were two kind of philosophers, one who were bound by superstition and the others who were not. They did what was possible in their time.
I marvel at the wisdom and courage of the person (Prajapati Parameshthi, as per tradition) who wrote these lines in RigVeda some 3,000 years ago
Even science in 21st Century has not gone beyond that:

"The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?"
"Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existence's kinship in the non-existent."

Rig-Veda, Book 10:… – The Rig Veda | Internet Sacred Text Archive

Rig-Veda Hymn CXXIX reflects on creation before existence, the rise of Desire, and the uncertainty of who knows the world’s first origin.

sacred-texts.com

 

[pood]

Einstein was a philosopher, acknowledged his debt to philosophy, and stated he would never have come upon relativity theory except through philosophy. He called the “shut up and calculate” types “mere artisans” as opposed to seekers after truth.