What is life about? How do you make sense of your existence? What is your best estimate / theory of what we are doing here and how all of this came to be?
Is this: (A) Christianity - God created the world and man rebelled? (B) Evolution - Happenstance? (C) Other alien races exist and are in a 10000 year battle; and we are in a living in Reptilian Soul Recycler? (D) Simulation - Some type of computer simulation running for purposes beyond our comprehension.... (E) ....
I'm really curious to hear of your best estimate / theory of how all of this came to be.
The purpose of life is love, ultimately.
This is what I've come to understand also, love God and love people.
I love lamp.
I like to think that we all have a lil bit of God's spark in us and are exploring his creation thru billions of means.
Aliens or simulations theories are just pushing it down or up one layer without explaining anything. If there's a simulation then what about those running it? How did they manifest or why are THEY here?
On one level. You are here to experience life! Joy, love and all that comes with it. To do so you must unfortunately experience the opposites which everyone wants to skip.
On another level you are also here to do the right thing. You have freewill. This is why there is good and evil. If things were cut out so that there is no evil or that you can't do evil then it means you don't have freewill.
The trick is that while you are here. It may appear as if you can do evil and get away with it. In reality your actions will echo far longer than your existence. The same way matter doesn't disappear and is simply transformed. You cannot do evil and not experience the effect eventually. If not in your lifetime then after death.
I suppose you can put it like this. Consciousness/All being/God splits itself into smaller units to be able to "forget" everything it knows and experience. But there are rules and growth must be gradual. The same way a simulation can't start midway and must start from state zero or how a tree must gradually grow from a seed.
You too must grow from lower consciousness to higher consciousness until going back into the source (What some religions describe as reincarnation). The lessons you learn or fail to learn determine your next experience.
Each person's life purpose is different. You may have multiple purposes in your lifetime. Are there instances in your life where you feel proud of a certain thing? Or feel that you must have done something differently? Those are probably important decisions that you had to make and which meant you either passed that lesson or failed it. And serve to remind you the next time it comes around to make the right decision. These lessons are stored in your soul. Doesn't matter if you forget everything at old age. It won't go away. That's why some people some times are "wiser" than others although their experiences aren't much different from someone else. That's your soul.
Just do the right thing (Which may be difficult) and no worries. It's no biggie.
there was a disturbance in pure consciousness - "attention' became 'awareness' then god devolved all through fractal of the point. All is God. We are god experiencing an existence to forget about eternity of emptiness
Carl Sagan in The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, says, (paraphrased):
Our local star is orbitted by four large masses and some insignificant debris. We're on the third piece of debris, whose surface is covered by a patina, a thin vaneer, of life.
Do you share his view of things?
I mean, it's not overtly false. Reductionist, sure. If there's a kabbalistic layer between reality and what we experience, then there's no way to be certain of anything.
Of OP's list, B,C, and D are all equally insufficient to describe the whole, so it's likely a combination of those.
Universe made by God, species made by aliens, governance has been "AI" for at least a hundred years.
Yes, but even longer than that..(Babylon and before)
The description of another becomes the layer within self, which confines experience into expiration. The layers of self imposed burdens are choking out a beings access to the source of knowledge passing through.
Whatever ones holds onto prevents one from seeing the kabbalah (cube of allah) aka the law of all cueing each being within. Those asleep ain't getting the cue while slumbering under layers of deception.
To be certain requires each beings self dis-CERN-ment...not layers of understanding by others which obscure ones mind from being within the one and only way of knowledge aka living on the edge.
A description of one to another cannot ever be all...only within all can each one come into being to shape descriptions to one another. Holding onto shaped descriptions represents the deception which equalizes differences among beings.
Nature doesn't describe (outline)...nature delineates being (life) inline (inception towards death).
To combine implies like vs dislike aka putting two (bi) together (com) against ONE another. Nature implies singularity; artifice implies plurality. Only each singular being wields the free will of choice to artificially combine together what nature divides from one another.
Without intelligent design, the 'particles' 'banging' would have demolished themselves, I think, as well as thinking only an Ultimate Creator makes the most sense and takes much less faith and trust than an accidental intelligence and complex life, but that's me, and you can quote me.
Kabbalah is lies and thievery.
Christ/christen - "to anoint" implies the lubrication preventing friction in-between "banging particles" within the dividing process of whole.
Few design intelligence (understanding) as an identifying mark for many to tempt them to turn against (anti) one another, which demolishes the lubrication (christ).
The trick of Christianity (or any other group) is about tempting each christ to join one another, hence becoming anti-christ.
Particles joining together implies mutual demolition. The "banging together" aka intercourse for off-spring implies the balance act for ones reacting choice in-between the need to set apart and the want to put together.
IN (inception) and OUT (death)...only in-between can being come to life.
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts
Or, in long form:
https://www.wanttoknow.info/secret_societies/hidden_hand_081018
https://www.lawofone.info/
Value (all perceivable) moves evaluation (ones perception) into being...it's neither a possession (yours) nor a circumference (about), but a linear process moving bringing forth potential.
Few trick many to set values by holding onto them, which in return corrupts ones evaluation of moving value.
An ex (out) stence (stance) manifests inwardly aka all energy manifesting each power within by linear progression from motion > momentum > matter.
About/ambhi (around)... https://www.etymonline.com/word/about Life isn't about; but centered within.
Sense implies each beings sentience while being send within nature...making represents the deception tempting a being to shape something artificial while ignoring nature for it.
Best implies versus worse...aka circular confinement of ones mind within conflict, while ignoring the power of ones mind to estimate linear procession. Only if one lets go of either extreme (best or worse) can one estimate freely.
Nature does the doing which allows each being within to re-do...that's how singularity works. Few suggest pluralism (we) to tempt many together, while gaining the permission to artificially re-shape those who ignore what nature was doing.
All was before each one within comes into being during delineation...emphasis on TO (towards) BE (being).
Few suggest creationism (out of nothing) to invert transformation (within everything). Consenting to the former rebels against the latter, while permitting few to rebel against many. Ignoring transformation for creation shapes being into a "rebel without a cause".
a) Happenstance implies by chance...being implies as choice within balance. Few tempt many to take chance which distracts from given choice.
b) Evolution implies "to unroll"...nature delineates, which few distract from by internally (logic) and externally (reason) rolling many together aka tricking each into circular confinement, which then turns many against each other.
Alien/alius - "another" implies the position of each being within nature from one ANOTHER; while race/raddix/radius/ray implies each beings stance within all.
Taking any measurement tempts ones mind into a battle (give vs take).
Reptile/rep (to creep; crawl) + soul/sole (one and only) + recycle (circular response)...nature moving through each being implies the soul; beings ignoring natural for artificial implies the recycling, and while recycling the adaptation of being to nature becomes a crawl aka dragging across.
Nature divides each being from one another...few are typecasting many into a collective (some/sum) to make them SIM-ular to one another, which represents com (together) putare (to reckon).
Computation represents the enumeration together of each natural being into an artificial sum aka hive-mind; collected consciousness; gestalt intelligence; group ego; egregore; consensus.
That implies suggested progressivism by few tempting many to ignore origin for outcome aka an inversion of a beings perspective.
Com (together) prehendere (to take hold of) is what tempts a being yonder aka a distance away from discerning self.
Real implies a beings response (re) to all (al) natural...curiosity tempts a being to aim at artificial outcomes.