User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/The Inapposite and Superfluous Philosophical Enigmas of Jeremiah Garland/@comment-4093783-20130607002744/@comment-3090294-20130607032845

"We do not have a "purpose". We're like all the other animals on this planet, just with more mental and physical capabilities. However, if we were to have a purpose, it'd be to survive and live a fun life. "

I respect opinions, but I find that to be quite a silly thing to say, sir (I'm not mad, just making a point.) How could we have no purpose on Earth? We, as you stated, have far more capabilities than animals. So, how could it be by accident that we have such capabilities? You don't think we got those capabilities which no other animals can obtain for some reason? We even have emotions that other animals can not obtain. We can love, we can feel sympathy. We have the ability to reason. All these things no other animal can obtain, and you think we have no purpose here on Earth?

And you think our possible purpose, which you think is unlikely that we have, is to live a fun life and to survive? Sure, maybe that is something we should do, but what mentally stable people don't long for something great. Something that is all good. Let me ask you something: When you buy an item, it may seem like the best thing ever. But then you see something better and immediately want it. We as humans long for perfection. So what could finally be the perfection that could satisfy us? A God? If you look through the history of humans, pretty much all reigions had some type of religion which consisted of a perfect God or many gods, which shows the longing we have to find a God that is perfect and to be with him when we die.

So, in my opinion, out puropse on Earth is to live good, faithfull lives (but not miserable, boring lives) so that one day we may join God, the perfection that would finally satisfy us, in Heaven.