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Does it make sense to seek the ultimate, because once it is attained, our very existence would lose purpose?

Should we seek something that can make our very existence meaningless?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What is the ultimate? The dictionary defines it as being the best, greatest or most extreme of it's kind or basic; fundamental; representing a limit beyond which further progress, as in investigation or analysis, is impossible.

Between what we are and what we make become there is a vast space for improvement. This improvement is is the reason why we should strive for the ultimate, imagine for a moment if we ceased the struggle for improvment because of a fear of what life would be like after we have achived it. The world would grind stop under the addage of "If practice makes perfect and nobody is perfect, Why Practice?" Nobody and nothing would attampt to improve current the situation. No progress would be made and our society would die.

Improvement of ones self and striving for the ultimate allows space for growth, whether it takes a year or ten thousand years this struggle gives meaning to life. While it is true that once having attained the ultimate the meaning of the struggle would fail us perhaps we may then attain meaning from helping others to our level.

A thought also occurs to me, perhaps this is the reason why we live only so long. If we lived as long as we would like we would be able to improve ourselves to the point of perfection, the point of being the ultimate. By having a cut off date before we achive this we gain a sense of purpose and direction, the attempt to better ourselves in the time we have. Just a thought.

Hope this helps.