why do you exist?

[datasuspect]

[guitar man]

1. to earn income

that seems to be the sole purpose for my existence these days :(

[MedleyMisty]

2. Almost went with create

But ended up going with increasing love and harmony.

[Orsino]

3. Beats the alternative. n/t

[datasuspect]

6. how could you know?

there is no way to know with certainty what, if anything, happens when we die.

it's an unknown quantity. to make a comparison between life and death doesn't make sense rationally. we can never know what death entails.

in one way though, you make a positive claim about "life" or "existence" because you prefer it over death.

in which case, what particularly is it about life that would constitute a reason for continuing the project of existence?

[Orsino]

9. I lean toward Vonnegut, if you insist on my being serious.

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." That's always struck me as the highest possible calling.

[u4ic]

4. Nemesis for GoPsUx

:P

[otherlander]

5. Because there was a man and a woman...

and they....
well, you see, when a man and a woman...
um... *cough*

Ask your mom how it works.

[datasuspect]

7. at age 37, it would probably be inappropriate to ask my mother about a subject

in which i am a certified (and well-paid) expert.

you may know me by my pseudonym: lance surewood.

[misanthrope]

8. A happenstance of biology.**nm

**

[trof]

10. I'm here to kick ass and take names. No...wait...

OK, SKITTLES does the ass kicking, and I just take the names.
There.
;-)

[datasuspect]

11. i'm here to drank budweiser and whoop ass

i don't care what their names are, but you can rest assured they will know mine when i make them say it: "what's my muthafuckin name boy?!?!"

[Writer]

12. I am here because I am.

And that is all.

[datasuspect]

14. why ARE you

?

[Writer]

15. Because I came to be through the chance interaction of chemistry. n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. I yam what I yam

and thats all that I yam ,said Popeye the Sailor man


Why am I suddenly hungry?


yams are yummy

[Deja Q]

16. Because my parents did something called 'sexual intercourse' and it worked, of course.

:shrug:

[datasuspect]

17. so if that accounts for the biological/functional aspect of your being

but are you merely a biological mechanism that happened due to sexual intercourse?

[MilesColtrane]

18. I'm here to learn some lessons.

I'm here to learn patience with a capital "P"...with others and myself.

...to learn how to let go of anger and forgive.

...to learn how to love another person.

(on edit: also how to play a meaningful solo over Rythmn Changes in any key or tempo)