How to achieve a human legacy

The importance of being on this earth bears a much a deeper meaning, an attainable importance of keeping humanity as the symbol of eternal legacy.
This would symbolise a mark of human success and achievement beyond time and space, then to spend countless amount of wasted effort focusing on philosophy about
the origin of humans
why are on we this earth?
or
what is the meaning of life?
Human legacy is one way of addressing the issue, it is an underchallenged idea and must be addressed as the answer to those both questions.


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Originally Posted by cacian

The importance of being on this earth bears a much a deeper meaning, an attainable importance of keeping humanity as the symbol of eternal legacy.
This would symbolise a mark of human success and achievement beyond time and space, then to spend countless amount of wasted effort focusing on philosophy about
the origin of humans
why are on we this earth?
or
what is the meaning of life?
Human legacy is one way of addressing the issue, it is an underchallenged idea and must be addressed as the answer to those both questions.


discuss

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Why are we here? To chat, to share and to please and anger one another. We are here to eat, go together, love, regenerate and the like. The origin is unknown and it is futile to look for the origin of being and innumerable philosophers fruitlessly racked their brains and could not arrive at any better conclusion than the peasant who works on his ranch and wonders at everything he sees around. What we know as writers thinkers is only words and sentences and our ideas of the world are sheer our perceptions of them not at all the reality of them.


Our legacy is betrayal and the theory of evolution endorses this fact. You have mightily change yourself, run faster than your company, be smarter to bring in your partner to generate new beings and be able to raid over the rest for space or else you will be extinct in this evolutionary trap

Make a lot of great art and then die a crazy tragic death.

I don't mind passing my legs down to my kids at all.

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Originally Posted by cacian

why are on we this earth?
or
what is the meaning of life?

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I think we are on this earth so that we can be aware of being on this earth and to see if we can learn enough patience not to harm ourselves and others so we can all pass our time here together joyfully. It is a temporary opportunity from an eternal perspective.

Why worry about leaving a legacy at all. In terms of individuals, it seems to me that the cult of the individual in this aspect is merely an expression of pride, but the reality will be that most of us will leave no mark whatsoever.

Memory of us will quickly fade - there may be some digital impressions that no-one will look at, but how many of us will make an actual physical impression on the planet bar a lingering carbon footprint? If you build a wall, build a house or plant a garden, the you might leave a physical impression.

And does it matter? What would be interesting is to consider if it does matter to us, then how does that resonate with our worldview? Leaving a memory seemed to be important to the ancient Greek world. Is this where we get our impulses? If so, is it realistic o consistent with our wider view of our ultimate fate?

There is art and there is procreation. Make art or have kids. Or say to hell with leaving a legacy and just exit this world peacefully, as one resting one's head, nodding off into dreamland.

I don't think building a wall will do it, the wall may remain but the builder will be forgotten (I don't suppose Hadrian laid a single stone on his wall.) There are many plaques commemorating dead Victorians on buildings round here, and their busts are gathering dust in junk shops.

Cult of the individual is a hideous expression.

Slaughter a whole bunch of innocents.

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Originally Posted by Pierre Menard

Slaughter a whole bunch of innocents.

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Sadly, there are people who take this advice and go with it. Here in Canada we just had a really scary and nasty case of a young man who did exactly this. I won't get into the details, I'm pretty sure people know which news item I am referring to.

The desire to leave a legacy, to be remembered, known.....to be famous.....can be a wonderful or a horrendous thing. It drove Da Vinci to draw and discover.....it drove Hitler to kill and to hate.

Its a fascinating quirk of the human psyche the causes and effects of which I greatly enjoy observing in myself and others.

I don't usually get involved in philosophy, so forgive me.

I don't know much but I do know that mankind is here because the lord God placed us here to tend the Garden of Eden. Therefore the human race as a whole has a purpose. But individual humans don't really have a purpose because there are so many of us now; when there was just two (Adam and Eve) then each of them was exponentially more important because the supply for humans was low and the Earth had a high demand. Now I think there are so many humans that the marginal value of each one has really diminished.

So really I don't think I or you are here for any purpose, but our human species is.