# What is the purpose of life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Out Of Pod Experience\ **Created:** [December 25, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859 "2023-12-25T08:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wesfahrn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wesfahrn/32/392292_2.png) [@Wesfahrn](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wesfahrn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/42 "2024-01-15T06:23:50Z")
> something created you as a tool or for a specific task, which is absolutely horrifying. Why is that horrifying? And compared to what? Just being dumped on for example earth and not given any sense of direction or purpose? That seems far more horrifying ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/43 "2024-01-15T10:09:34Z")
> [@Wesfahrn](#): > > Just being dumped on for example earth and not given any sense of direction or purpose? You have all the human civilization, all the world and yourself so you can search all the life for that. Human is a wanderer, all his life. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/7/5/2/7523d76ef95ed4be2ff8cd04cc62a534149213a1.jpeg) ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/7/5/2/7523d76ef95ed4be2ff8cd04cc62a534149213a1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Wesfahrn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wesfahrn/32/392292_2.png) [@Wesfahrn](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wesfahrn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/44 "2024-01-16T12:24:29Z")
You are not really making sense ---
**Author:** ![Yiole\_Gionglao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yiole_gionglao/32/516090_2.png) [@Yiole\_Gionglao](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yiole_Gionglao)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/45 "2024-01-16T15:44:05Z")
We are born powerless and ignorant, but something takes care of us until we grow and figure that things have causes… but many never overcome the assumption that same as parents care for powerless newborns, something superhuman must care for humans, and same as parents are cause for children, something is cause for mankind. It’s all we learn, but many animals don’t experience the same and the question is open for debating. ---
**Author:** ![Ulysses\_Redmane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ulysses_redmane/32/410129_2.png) [@Ulysses\_Redmane](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ulysses_Redmane)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/47 "2024-02-02T01:24:35Z")
The purpose of life is to construct a purpose for life. ---
**Author:** ![Altara\_Zemara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/altara_zemara/32/390110_2.png) [@Altara\_Zemara](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Altara_Zemara)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/48 "2024-02-02T02:19:05Z")
The purpose of life is to wonder what the purpose of life is. ---
**Author:** ![Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/iceacid_frostpacker/32/505689_2.png) [@Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Iceacid_Frostpacker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/49 "2024-02-21T20:51:15Z")
I do try very hard for Aiko to come after me and chase me around New Eden. I am always kicking up the dust and trying my best to maintain a good fight ship as opposed to friendship the other ship to fly! ---
**Author:** ![Aaron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aaron/32/379788_2.png) [@Aaron](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aaron)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/50 "2024-02-23T02:36:33Z")
I’m shocked this thread isn’t closed, wasn’t sure if I was going to bother posting. Since the question is being asked I will answer it without imposing my view and simply putting it in the discussion pot. Our purpose might be to simply bear witness to everything we see and hear and feel. I’m unsure if we will need to testify at some point but that is my view. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/charles_dupont_ii/32/471236_2.png) [@Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Charles_Dupont_II)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/51 "2024-02-23T09:21:13Z")
More cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/charles_dupont_ii/32/471236_2.png) [@Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Charles_Dupont_II)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/52 "2024-02-23T09:22:03Z")
Who’s asking the question? That question is more profound then one might be immediately aware of. ---
**Author:** ![Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/iceacid_frostpacker/32/505689_2.png) [@Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Iceacid_Frostpacker)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/53 "2024-02-23T11:34:07Z")
It doesn’t matter if cowbell wearing or even collecting them as wind chimes, what matters is that it is a comment made my you that you had shared wiih us here that we can now imagine _ **what if** _ the purpose in life is just as simple as being a cow that wears a bell that holds no grudges in life and accepts the challenge of interacting with other cows in the paddock. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/charles_dupont_ii/32/471236_2.png) [@Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Charles_Dupont_II)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/54 "2024-02-24T18:24:40Z")
The point was actually who is asking the question? Who is the questioner? It is pointing at the awareness underlying experience. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/charles_dupont_ii/32/471236_2.png) [@Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Charles_Dupont_II)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/55 "2024-02-24T18:25:08Z")
Also I would only be a Swiss alpine cow. ---
**Author:** ![Zaera\_Keena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zaera_keena/32/449938_2.png) [@Zaera\_Keena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zaera_Keena)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/56 "2024-02-24T19:06:00Z")
The meaning of life → 42 ---
**Author:** ![Dreg\_Apc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dreg_apc/32/381263_2.png) [@Dreg\_Apc](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dreg_Apc)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/57 "2024-02-25T15:31:40Z")
Yesterday i helped a stranger and her friend in a wheelchair who was stuck on a rain grate. It was simple and i was kind of confused they couldn’t get the wheelchair free themselves, hopefully i didn’t make it look too easy. Next time i will probably act more like a guide. This is mildly on topic. ---
**Author:** ![Lfod\_Shi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lfod_shi/32/376240_2.png) [@Lfod\_Shi](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lfod_Shi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/58 "2024-02-25T23:00:16Z")
> [@Dreg\_Apc](#): > > The purpose of life is life. I agree, the purpose of life is life itself. Everything else is…? ---
**Author:** ![Dchill](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dchill/32/408523_2.png) [@Dchill](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dchill)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/59 "2024-02-27T10:46:50Z")
Life can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!.. ever… until you are dead! ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/charles_dupont_ii/32/471236_2.png) [@Charles\_Dupont\_II](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Charles_Dupont_II)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/60 "2024-02-27T15:12:10Z")
What underlies all these conceptions of difficulty and ease, attraction and aversion is what is real. It is when you move beyond concepts that you begin to see what really is. That is the point that everything becomes instilled with meaning, a meaning that is deep and profound and freed from conceptions of mind. From this standpoint everything is meaningful and move one step beyond that and there are no such things as separate things or events, in that everything exists in relation to everything else. A “thing” truly is a noun there are no “things” in nature. ---
**Author:** ![Zaera\_Keena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zaera_keena/32/449938_2.png) [@Zaera\_Keena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zaera_Keena)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/61 "2024-02-27T15:17:51Z")
> [@Dreg\_Apc](#): > > It was simple Next you will say that doing a 3 point turn is simple. > [@Dreg\_Apc](#): > > Next time i will probably act more like a guide Yeah go ahead - mansplain how to get their wheelchair free. ---
**Author:** ![Yuzima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yuzima/32/416395_2.png) [@Yuzima](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yuzima)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-life/433859/62 "2024-02-27T19:56:15Z")
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