purpose

I remember reading in the Radio Times earlier this year, Jeremy Paxman speaking to Sir ( the icon, himself ) David Attenborough. When he was asked if there was a purpose in life, he made it abundantly clear that there was none. Now he didn't say why. So I'm curious about your views on a...

So, I've been having a ...oh, let's call it a "discussion" with a guy over in Politics about what religion is and what religion isn't. Let's say it starts somewhere around this post of mine (towards the middle). The short version is that he says that the whole point behind religion is to not...

I've heard a lot of opinions and some claims of facts about this and I've also heard a lot of data suggesting nobody has a friggin' clue.:boggled: So, given that I am still not sure about the answer and have notived all the intelligence floating around here I figured it would be an interesting...

What is the single most important purpose and function of philosophy? In another thread someone said that philosophy is not about truth, that it's neither true nor false. If the objective isn't truth then what is it? Philosophy The search for wisdom. The rational investigation of...

On Nov. 22, Larry King interviewed Rick Warren, author of the crapfest, A Purpose Driven Life, about the book. This is up on CNN's pages because of the discussion of the book between Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols (the Atlanta judge-killer). To my surprise, King once again asked a few tough...

One sees so few monocles these days. Did they ever have a purpose other than to make someone appear (as one website put it) as a pretentious toff?

What is the single most important purpose of organized religion, or if you'd rather, unorganized religion? I can list several potential most important purposes: To teach about a supreme being(s), To transmit supreme being thoughts To organize people into communities To guide morals To teach...

So, a post in another thread got me thinking about what the purpose of law is. Or, rather, a purpose. Is law meant to deal with society as it is and make the best of what we've got or is it meant to push society to what it should be? For example, gay marriage: That gay couples exist is not...

Is religion the "opium of the people", the purpose of which is "to satisfy other needs or conditions"; is religion "so fully determined by economics that it is pointless to consider any of its doctrines or beliefs on their own merits"? (Quoting Karl Marx, of course.)

Does grief have a biological purpose? any ideas?

Apparently, people have different ideas on why we punish people.