The one above is one of the questions that turbate me. And many others. Probably it's the most asked question, the one that differenciate human from animal. Well some people don't ask themselves and some others have found their way to answer it, and on the latter I was interested, I am interested.Why today and no other day? I was reading this article about secondlife.com, basically the website where you live a second life, a virtual one. This woman, one of the user is making millions developing properties in the virtual world.
Strangely enough, you can change the virtual money in real $.
I completely understand why people pay for a cool character, a different house, because it looks cool and it takes a long time and destirity to create one.
However despite the debate was about if Us should tax the gains, I think that secondlife creates wealth from nothing ( well our obsessions!). Generally wealth is only transferred from one place to another, here is created from nowhere.
Then another question, what has changed in the human mind? Why people now are more willing to make more effort to interact in a virtual life than they ever were in the real one? I'm sure people could unleash their fetishes, they can fulfill their secret life in it, but I think most of all they can be free to choose who they are, where they come from, which sex they want to be, which life they conduct, how many hours they watch of porn every day and what they want to achieve.
Why would we give up our free time to do that? Because we are free to be who we wanted withouth the limits imposed on you on your birth.
The trend I think came to life with the Tamagochi, feeding the little pet, we evolved into the Sim, and I don't deny myself not sleeping to make my Sim sleep.
So, is our ideal life, sitting in front a pc playing the virtual life we wanted? And this can also become more addictive as you will be able to smell and touch through a pc. So if more and more people prefer to live a different life. Why do we exist? Why do I exist? So I searched on google, expecting to find, obviously not an answer but different views, opinions.
Uhm, my research on the internet was not in depth at all, however I was quite shocked to find out that the easiest explanation is because God created us.
I found this http://www.allaboutworldview.org/why-do-we-exist-faq.htm
"Why do we exist" is a reflective question that has been pondered for millennia. Many have attempted to answer this question in the past. Some make an entirely unsubstantiated claim we exist because of random occurrences and that there is no purpose to life. They must accept on faith alone that this is the case, where as a theistic view is embedded in evidence.
Many popular books and seminars will tell us to look within ourselves to discover why we exist. This self-centered philosophy, propagated by many New-age philosophers, neglects to account for the notion that we did not create ourselves. Were that the case, we could not find the truth of our origins within ourselves. You cannot solve the mystery of the existence of a synthetic object if you are not familiar with it; the object cannot tell you the purpose of its existence. Only the creator of the object can describe its creation. Oftentimes a creator will provide a handbook to tell us why his or her creation exists.
Our Creator has given us a handbook for life that explains our origins and purpose. The Creator of life has given us the Bible, which is composed of law, historical information, poetry, prophecy, and divinely inspired letters that explain our role in the universe. The Apostle Paul writes:
"For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him" (Colossians 1:16).
Errrrrrrrrrrr....
But finding this website was incredible.. The guide for atheist parents to help explain their kids how to approach the question.
Leibniz said there are two types of statements - those which are necessarily true and those which are not necessarily true.
Necessarily true:
"All bachelors are unmarried."
Not necessarily true:
"My wife is reading a book downstairs."
Likewise there are two types of questions (Leibniz did not say this):
Necessarily foolish:
Why aren't cats dogs? (or the famous 'Why isn't a woman more like a man?' - My Fair Lady)
Not necessarily foolish:
Where are my socks?
(Actually, my wife would think this is necessarily foolish. Where my socks are is not her business - oops! it might be foolish.)
"Why do we exist?" is in the 'necessarily foolish' category. Remember the old dictum: "Ask a silly question and get a silly answer."
I mean????? more of the above absurdities here http://www.eclipse.co.uk/thoughts/exist.htm
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