There is an oft repeated saying that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. (St. Bernard, Herbert, Shaw, Samuel Johnson) Is there a difference between purpose and intention?
On Jan 28, 6:54 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is a useful split RP - though I tend to wonder on purpose > in evolution. There are many examples of animal altruism coming to > light - I mentioned the 'slave ants in rebellion' recently but one > finds similar even amongst algae that live, for the most part, as > single-celled, but gang together when resources run out to 'flip' some > of the community to parts elsewhere by forming a stem with a flippable > node on top - those in the stem remain behind and die. We might > achieve world peace in human affairs (long overdue) only to be hit and > killed by a massive gamma burst from deep space. I wonder beyond this > as to a potential human purpose in a spiritual world - perhaps beyond > biological intelligence, perhaps with life embodied in machines and > later in the universe itself as 'we' really learn more. Against long- > term history 'we' are unlikely to survive as humans (though the algae > have been around much longer) and I suspect 'we' are deluded on human > individuality other than in the human world. > > On Jan 28, 11:57 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > To me there is human-purpose , yes , but no spiritual purpose. I was > > just using rhetoric in my original post. > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Hahah ohh RP you are one confusing fellow. > > > > Let me see if I follow this correctly. You define spiritual purpose as > > > being something that takes you beyond death, but your own belief is that > > > nobody goes beyond death, so then to you spiritual purpose is what, an > > > oxymoron? > > > > On Monday, 28 January 2013 09:58:43 UTC, RP Singh wrote: > > > >> I look after my children because I love them , I am moral because I > > >> want to remain a good person , but all these are human purposes. The > > >> spiritual purpose would be to take you beyond death. In my opinion > > >> nobody goes beyond death. > > > >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Umm maybe there is none RP. > > > >> > What do you mean by spiritual purpose? > > > >> > On Monday, 21 January 2013 12:31:34 UTC, RP Singh wrote: > > > >> >> An old man suffers a stroke and becomes a vegetable for the rest of > > >> >> his > > >> >> life , a one year old child becomes sick and dies. What is the purpose > > >> >> , the > > >> >> spiritual purpose for the old man or the child ? > > > >> > -- > > > > --- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
