Each purpose is intertwined with another. The rock is just the beginning for much else happens below a rock aside from the dirt, as in shelter, perhaps for a snake or scorpion. Some organisms, as you point out have specific, designated purpose while others have multi- purpose. Trees provide shade, fruit, wood and shelter. Trees fall, termites eat and break it down, in the end the tree becomes soil which serves as host for a multitude of life forms including those that provide nourishment. The hunger example you present lacks the depth of purpose such as that beyond simple nourishment. There is the purpose of species expansion through procreative process. You have living quarters and amenities due to the fact that somewhere down the pipeline there was purpose. We as an intelligent species have the unique ability to extract from one purpose to create another purpose to suit our needs. That is why we can cook with gas, fuel our world, pour oil on our salad. Everything has purpose, not just in the anthropocentric view but even with exclusion of our species, other species share purpose. Look around and you will see purpose. I'm sure you can find purpose in cacti. I think it is all about perspective, gruff.
On Apr 10, 7:07 pm, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, I can bend a little. Living organisms can have a purpose, but > it is a unique and personal purpose. Such as when an animal -- > including human -- gets hungry it's purpose becomes to seek > nourishment in whatever manner is suitable to that particular animal. > For a coyote it's to hunt prey or scrounge garbage cans, for a human > it's to brave the supermarket jungle, snatching sustenance from > shelves and freezers to carry home, prepare and eat or scrounge > garbage cans. So I'm a believer then in pragmatic purpose. > > On Apr 9, 7:18 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The rock keeps the dirt underneath it packed down tightly, gruff, > > besides, have you spoken to any Anannaki, Sumerians lately? > > I guess purpose in life relies greatly on one's belief or non belief. > > > On Apr 9, 8:54 am, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We hashed through the question of purpose a while back here on Mind's > > > Eye and achieved no answer nor even a consensus, though I still have > > > the question of why things have to have a purpose? Is not the fact of > > > existence sufficient in and of itself? Does a rock have a purpose? > > > Other than being a rock, that is? > > > > On Apr 8, 11:26 pm, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It is probably been hashed about a dozen or more times.. but I am > > > > interested > > > > it from a personal point of view not the deriding of another persons > > > > beliefs. > > > > > Allan > > > > > -- > > > > ( > > > > ) > > > > I_D Allan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
