I’m not depressed (at the moment, well maybe a little), just feeling philosophical.

Edit: the idea of this came to me because I was pondering why people fight so hard to beat diseases and live a few more years. What are they planning to do? Why exert effort just to be here longer when you don’t have a reason?

Just why?

  • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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    10 hours ago

    I would argue we have a whole list of purposes:

    • procreate
    • copulate
    • mate
    • engage in sexual reproduction
    • propagate the species
    • reproduce
    • conceive life
    • bring forth offspring
    • weave new generations
    • kindle the spark of life
    • sow the seeds of tomorrow
    • whip up some womb-biscuits
    • bake a bun in the baby oven
    • start a stork-summoning ritual
    • do the chromosome cha-cha
    • know each other in the biblical sense
    • lie together
    • hook up
    • get it on
    • do the deed
    • bump uglies
    • initiate a genetic merge request
    • fork the DNA repo
    • compile the next generation
    • instantiate another human

    I think you got the gist.

    And in the meantime also entertain ourselves, of course.