{"id":3658,"date":"2018-03-05T03:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2018-03-05T03:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:26:26","slug":"on-purpose-after-the-fact-my-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3658","title":{"rendered":"On Purpose, After the Fact (my bad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Yui:<\/strong><br \/>\nHello, this topic I searched but seem to find no direct answer.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat is the purpose\/meaning of life for a person who the supreme law is reason? How can we rationally explain life as a human species? If we can, what is our objective purpose as a whole?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nI just covered purpose yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3647\">here<\/a>, but you did write this two days ago.  Do check the previous answer, but here I&#8217;ll apply my perspective to the specifics of your wording.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo someone who values reason and doesn&#8217;t think an intelligent supreme being handed out any laws governing human behaviour, a human being is a product of what has happened before rather than a means to any predetermined end.  Without a prescribed purpose one is free to choose one&#8217;s own, and that can vary greatly depending on the person but many come out roughly the same based on our shared human desires and empathy for other humans.  That about covers it.  If you don&#8217;t like that a prime universal goal like &#8220;please your god&#8221; is not  replaced with something similarly monolithic, consider that your preferences for the nature of reality do not affect reality itself beyond your own actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Yui: Hello, this topic I searched but seem to find no direct answer. What is the purpose\/meaning of life for a person who the supreme law is reason? How can we rationally explain life as a human species? If we can, what is our objective purpose as a whole? Answer by SmartLX: I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Purpose, After the Fact (my bad)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[563,6],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-2","category-text","tag-purpose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-X0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}