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What is the Purpose of Life?
Book 1: The External Universe | Chapter 1.5 | 9 July 2020
As is the inescapable duality of Janthopoyism, we have identified two seemingly synonymous but (for our purposes) distinct questions on the table here. They are:
What is the meaning of life?
And what is the purpose of life?
The meaning is the substance of life. This factor is what makes life worthwhile of our time, the reason we should even bother getting up in the morning and participating in everyday existence. We shall address this topic in Book 2: The Internal Universe. Sorry to make you wait! But without order, we are chaos and have you ever tried to read chaos? It doesn’t make sense!
The purpose is the aim of life. Here is where it starts, and there is where it is going, point A to point B.
When it comes to individual experience, the purpose of life is the same for you as it is for all things: you're born, you survive for as long as you can, you reproduce to keep the species rolling, and then you die.
This conclusion rings true but is unsatisfying. Because, on a collective, universal, eternal level, what is the purpose of that?
So we pull away until we can analyse the picture as a whole, and there we find the answer.
The ultimate purpose of the Universal Energy is... to evolve.
The purpose of life is evolution.
Since the initiation of time, the Universal Energy has pushed forward, progressing step by step, learning how to refine its movements then advancing in every possible direction.
Is this a deliberate action following an intelligent design? Or is this a random sequence of nonsensical events which took billions of years and infinite possibilities to end up right here? That information does not exist for us. No human has the mental capacity to explain this mystery with any certainty. Anyone who claims to gold this data is basing it on nothing but their factless assumptions. You must only listen to such people for your amusement.
That said, it is undeniable that evolution is going somewhere. But where? And the answer is, once again, we do not know. In fact, it is imperative that we never learn the answer to that question. Our drive to stay alive is fueled by the unknown. There is a curiosity behind each day where we can never fully predict what will happen, which also works on the greater universal spectrum. If the cosmos revealed the future details of its evolution to us, it would ruin the film. We would no longer seek answers because we would know the final answer, and everything else would lose the point. Without our inherent wonderment, life's purpose would end.
The Universal Energy may or may not have some grand scheme, and it may or may not know the intended outcome of this evolution. Janthopoyism is not in the spiritual pool to make such calls, and neither should any other belief system. But we know that the world's current position is the consequence of all the previous steps, extending back forever. We and everything else surviving right now is on the cutting-edge of this evolution, living as the most up-to-date manifestation of the Universal Energy, experiencing itself at a level further ahead than what it has ever experienced before. The Universe is aware of itself because we are aware of the Universe and we are part of the Universe.
You are an essential ingredient of this movie.
Your specific contribution to evolution is small but significant.
And that is why, at its most fundamental definition, Janthopoyism is the worship of and service to evolution itself.
Such a concept is one we shall detail in greater depths as we go on, starting... right now.
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Janthopoyism is a spiritual philosophy meets self-improvement program.
We view the Absolute collection of all Universal Energy to be the highest power. You are part of that power. You are an extension of divinity.
The ultimate purpose of this power is to evolve, and we each have a unique part to play in this progression. The details of your role are relayed to you every moment of your life via emotional notifications.
The tricky bit is that human beings have developed a communication barrier between themselves and this instruction.
This barrier is called "the brain".
But never fear! By utilising some very simple practices, you can open the flow of exchange, granting you access to the ether of infinite ideas, the infallible path of your guided destiny, and the recollection of your holiness.
Which is basically a wanky way of saying that your life is about to get a whole bunch better.
Join the movement before it becomes too mainstream.