A) We are here to get make money and spend it on a bunch of stuff.
. . . wait a minute -
I thought YOU knew where we were going!
B) We are here to become as well-liked, respected, famous, powerful, or as high on the ladder of social status as possible.
C) We are here to kind of float through and enjoy the trip, and have as much "fun" as possible (a.k.a. "The Universe As Our Personal Disneyland" perspective).
D) "The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us." - Quentin Crisp
E) We are here to find the perfect guy or girl, make them fall madly in love with us, and live happily ever after. ( - or, live happily ever after at least until it's time to go...).
F) We are here to have sex. Maybe as much as possible. (See Option C).
G) We are here to be a success at . . . something.
H) We are here to work like dogs, pay taxes, get old, get sick, and die, without ever knowing why.
I) We are here to save the planet ( . . . and why is the planet here?)
J) "Don't ask." (Translation: We are here for some purpose or reason, and we don't know what that is, and will never know - except for the fact that somehow we think we know that this "purpose" or "reason" involves it being very important to not ask ourselves why we are here).
K) We are here to have children (. . . and . . . why are they here?)
L) We are here to pass on our genes ( . . . and why are they, our genes, here?)
M) We are here for reasons we don't understand and never will, so we're supposed to just blindly stumble through life trying to do the best we can anyways.
N) We are here to set goals and achieve them . . . and then set more and achieve them, and so on, ad infinitum or until we die.
O) We're here to evolve. (Evolve into what? )
P) Behaviorism: we are here to seek pleasure and avoid pain (and why is pain and pleasure here?)
Q) Freud: to be torn between our instincts and societal expectations - hopefully reaching some sort of compromise - until we die.
P) We are here to love others. (. . . and why are others here?)
R) We are here to face and overcome whatever challenges life throws at us.
S) We are here to try to live a secure and comfortable life, typically in spite of not knowing why we're tasked with this burden of always trying to find comfort and security, and rarely actually finding it.
T) The "Economy of Happiness": We are here to squeeze the maximum amount of fun and happiness possible into our lives before we die (a.k.a. maximum hedonism)
U) We are here to distract ourselves from asking why we are here.
V) We are here to prepare ourselves for the moment of death.
W) We don't know why we're here, we'll never know why we're here - and we absolutely know that for sure.
X) We are here to breed.
Y) We are here because of "the Plan" (and what is "the Plan"?)
Z) We are here to survive - meaning, keep our bodies alive - for as long as possible, even though we're going to die anyway.
AA) We are here for no reason or purpose at all. It's all meaningless (nihilism).
BB) We are here for "a reason" (and either ask "what exactly is that reason?" or just leave it at that)
CC) We are here to screw around and try to have a few good times before we hit the grave.
DD) Psychological: We are here to work on ourselves, overcome our neurosis, understand our childhood, become a self-individualized human, release our "inner children," unleash our repressed emotions, and free up our impulses.
EE) We are here to find a game worth playing, and playing it to the absolute best of our abi
Answered by
Rajendra
, an ibibo Advisor,
at
12:42 PM on September 02, 2009
