Why are we here?

Do you ever wonder why we are here? Is there a reason? Is it to love? Is it just to exist? Thousands of years ago there were people just like me and now they are gone. I wasn't there with them because i didn't exist. Now im here. I often wonder what for? At this moment i feel great, but there are times that i don't. Now that im 60 i have many questions. I dont believe in eternal punishment because that doesn't make sense of a loving God. I wasn't here from time eternal until now and its something i ponder. If we are here to work, exist and die i often wonder the meaning. Some people suffer immeasurably in this existence and some have more wealth than is necessary. So why the disparity? I'm neither. I'm just grateful at this moment as i finish writing my thoughts over a cup of coffee. I hope by the end of the day i make some kind of difference whether big or small and find meaning in everything i do. Humbly yours, Bruce!

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LifeOnHardMode · 26-30, M

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.