Some people have
put forth answers they believe to be spiritually inspired. The
difficulty there is that these people have produced so many different
answers. How to know which is right? In a sense, it is part of the
overall question of religious “truth”, and I approach it in a
similar way to that in which I approach general universalism. The
inspiration is not there to give us the correct answer, but to give
us the answer that will help us, at the time it is inspired.
I don't have an
inspired answer. Maybe we are here as a larval stage of development
of a metaphysical, extradimensional being that has to pass through
this as part of their path to maturity. Maybe we've taken part in
some cosmic bet (which is more or less how some Mormon missionaries
explained their understanding to me) involving incarnation.
Maybe we're
preparing for whatever happens after death. Maybe we have to prove
ourselves worthy to get to paradise. Maybe we have to gain some
secret knowledge to be able to achieve something after death. Maybe
we reincarnate afterwards, and our “job” in each life is to gain
experience of a different facet of life.
I say this – do
not concern yourself overmuch with some cosmic purpose, some reason
for being. Concern yourself with living as you should for no other
reason than that you should. Concern yourself with making the world a
little better, or stopping it getting too much worse. Concern
yourself with doing good, with helping others. Concern yourself with
fulfilment – but not only your own.
Don't worry about
a purpose, or a reason. Life will provide us with too many to count.
Written January 2019
