Q: Why am I alive?
Many of us are asking that question, why are we all alive?
Admittedly, modern society often finds the question awkward.
Yet it is a great question - Why are we alive? Throughout history the desire for meaning or a purpose beyond simple physical life returns again and again. Great people from Plato to Einstein expressed a belief in something beyond the tangible physical laws with which we are all surrounded. As knowledge increased – the question has been repeatedly asked by successive generations. It’s curious that over time – one definitive simple answer hasn’t been uncovered - and yet the insistent question remains.
We need, as the question implies, an individual answer, and that presupposes an individual pursuit on all our parts. This web site’s aspiration is to put forward for your contemplation – a growing resource regarding the question – Why am I alive? We hope to present something you might find new, which challenges your thinking and still agrees with reason. Oftentimes dialogue and consideration of different perspectives help to clarify our thinking. Therefore we will refer to respected thinkers who preceded us from a variety of backgrounds, and points in history.
With such a question, who should we ask? Who can we trust with such a profound question?
