Why are we here?

My intuitive belief right now is that there is a God but he/she/it is not fully omnipotent.

Something created God without it's consent in 'blackness' as described in the bible. That was the experience of being paralyzed in a hospital bed with all senses lost and only the mind's lonely cries for console.

Since God could not endure this alone or did not wish to the universe was created with us in it to troll or for some more complex agenda.

God's favorite past-time appears to be building people up and breaking them so that they 'bow down' and accept that it is the ultimate form of greatness. It may want intelligent lifeforms to give up their free will voluntarily.

Perhaps there is an afterlife where people who gave up free will are used as God's slaves directly without any feeling of choice whatsoever.

It seems that God is far more cruel and inconsistent than portrayed today. In fact, there may be a constant state of imbalance and wrath as described in the old testament.

God may not intend to do evil but the whole system creates it by building and harnessing our suffering. After all, according to some scripts 'Satan' was created by God and is indirectly his 'greatest servant'.

Aside from God I think it is all just positive and negative charges: +1s, -1s and 0s. Any number represents strain or 'pain' that seeks to balance itself. When all of the pieces balance our universe will cease to exist and go back into a state of 'nothing' or 0.

There could be an eternal state of zero somewhere (ie: 'dimension zero') with infinite +- potential. For an unknown mathematical reason, there can be a split at any time from 0 to '+1' and '-1'. '+1' would be one universe with a positive charge (net dark matter bias) and another would be biased towards negative charges (e.g. dark energy, electricity). It seems our universe is negatively charged and expansion may result from the negative attempting to balance with the positive of its opposite.

First I thought you were asking why are we here in SW !

Good question to ask in life, but it never occurs to ask as soon as we are born or while growing up. But we didn't come here in our own accord, but for someone's act and they too would answer the same as they too wouldn't know. So some in the past noted that we can be taught to read and write and can be programmed to behave. They tried with other creatures, but it didn't work. That's why any other animal does not ask such question. So think how a cow or dog or horse would answer, that would be the same for humans too.

Why the disparity? That's basically politics and how money was introduced to more wealth from one place to another.

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.”
― Hermann Hesse

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
Dalai Lama

I know some folks feel they know the answer to this, but I’m not one so I just let it go. We ARE here in this place and time, and what we can answer is what we are going to do with that. In the best cases, I think the first question may lead to a better answer for the second.

Well Bruce, unlike many other people I don’t really ask this question why are we here to me assumes a lot. It assumes we are here for some reason or purpose, made by some entity. For its own interests. I know this will be offensive to you but I do not believe in any deity. I believe we happen to be here, due to the laws Of nature. Everything we learn about life, says that the very laws of nature will always create it if the conditions are right. I know many people hate the idea of some thing just happening? Without some being being in charge of it? But I don’t ascribe to that cosmology, physics, chemistry, and biology. Are the rules of the universe we live in. If there’s any reason for us to be here, it is because we make that reason

Thinking about this too hard always sends me into a spiral, so I just tell myself the meaning of life is for me to give it meaning. Which means I get to choose what I stress about. I choose to derail that train of thought there.

Nice writing, btw

God feeds some of his prisoners better than others .

I think the reason we are here is to be fruitful and multiply, to be humanitarian, to strive to seek to find, to understand, to try and understand stand.

I don't believe we only live this one life. I think we keep on living different variations until we reach the stages of nirvana.

I have no illusions of there being an afterlife of eternal bliss. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised but life tends to be disappointing and while God doesappear interested in life it does not appear to interfere with it. It Is more likely in my estimation that we are just ripples in a sea of energy. We come and go but are basically all one and one with everything.

I know why I'm here, or rather, I've made my own reason. I'm surrounded by narcisissts, thieves and liars, and I figure since all those behaviors sicken me I must been put on the planet to bring some of these fvckers to justice

having similar thoughts. I have to re prioritize my life. I am not here to work till old age, retire and then live out the rest of my life like that. there's more to it.

I'm with the ones who said there is no "why" - life is only what we make of it.

if you sit and think about it long enough, you'll eventually go crazy or get a migraine, Does your head hurt ???

Im here because one fateful night my parents got horny.

Meaning is an illusion. You don't need meaning when you're happy, it's what you chase when you're sad. Truth is that we do not know what we need, meaning is what we call the void we try to fill, and God is the only one that can fill it.