Our Purpose

Human beings, being intelligent beings, have to have reason to go on, collectively, this forms our purpose
Thus, we work towards the hope of accomplishing this purpose. and yet, the dilemma remains. Once we accomplish our purpose, we will have no reason to live. Because of that, in order for us to go on, we must never accomplish our purpose. So we go on in hopes of accomplishing the purpose that we in fact will not. Suicide is the result of people who either feel they have no purpose, that they have lost their purpose, or that they have accomplished their purpose. So the question that can be derived from this, is it better to accomplish the purpose and die on your terms, or never accomplish it and die naturally. This perspective almost makes those who commit such an act look sane.

Everything accomplished must have a reason in order to be accomplished. A human being cannot accomplish something without a reason. This is a vital part of our psychology. The more driving the cause, the greater our performance when accomplishing our purpose. Love, for example, is one of the most renowned purposes. It has been the cause of great and terrible things. Thus, the key to unlocking our potential is a purpose worth having. In this way, Christianity indeed has made the world a better place. It has also made the world a terrible place in the past. Both of these results, as diverse as they may be, are radical in their intensity for the same reason- they both are founded upon a powerful purpose. Communism, for example, led to a number a great things. Terrible, yes, but great. The reason for this is because the goal was something worth striving for- social harmony and unity. Granted, this goal was never accomplished, and in fact quite the opposite in many ways. But in a way Communism is like humans, in that we never accomplish our purpose, or if we do we lose our reason to live.