The purpose of life is to get smarter.

This answer is not something I’m trying to get you to believe because of the power of my personality. I’m not trying to “inspire” you, but to give you the single answer to that question. An answer that can be deduced through a coldly logical process.

When I tell you “The purpose of life is to get smarter”, it is in the same sense as I tell you “Rocks roll downhill.” Both are physical processes that occur in the real world.

And like any physical process, if you ignore it, you will simply wind up getting hurt. BADLY. The rock will just roll over you and crush you like a bug. Whether you believe in the rock or not.

Consider.

All human action has as its end goal the achievement of a state of happiness. Whatever it is a human does, in the end it is to get happy and stay that way.

The smarter and smarter you are, the easier and easier it is to get happy and stay that way.

So everybody is constantly trying, all the time, to understand how the world works. To get smarter. Whether they want to be doing that or not. About this one thing, they actually have ZERO choice.

Please note that as you interact with the Universe every day trying to get happy, you cannot help but get smarter about how the Universe works.

Let me put it this way: Are you smarter now than you were ten years ago? One year ago? One week ago? When you go to bed at night, are you a little bit smarter than when you woke up that morning?

See how this works? What an automatic process this is?

The basic question has now been answered, but there are some additional HIGHLY critical aspects to this question that need to be pointed out.

If you use dope (hereafter referred to as “emotion drugs”) to get happy instead of interacting with the Universe, the situation changes radically. When you are stoned on emotion drugs, you are no longer interacting with the Universe. If you are no longer interacting with the Universe, it is impossible to learn anything about the Universe---and the getting-smarter process will stop stone-cold dead and even reverse itself with heavy enough use.

The social scientists are starting to detect this, although they don’t understand the process. Heavy dopeheads have a strong tendency to be the same now as they were twenty years ago. They haven’t changed, i.e. they haven’t gotten any smarter.

Nobody understands this better than the dopeheads themselves. What have they called the stuff they use from Day One? “Dope.”

There is a much, much deeper societal problem here that is again not widely understood. If you believe your personality just zeroes out and disappears when your body dies, then getting happy by using emotion drugs is the smartest thing to do. (This belief is the root cause of the opioid epidemic, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.) If that is the case, the getting-smarter process is completely useless and without any real meaning.

The weird thing is that belief is totally wrong. We are all actually eternal beings who have souls. In this case, we are forced to get smarter simply as a matter of self-defense. Because the Universe will be constantly dropping all kinds of random painful hammers on us if we don’t.

And this can be logically, scientifically proved.

Here is that proof. Just to continue your education about how the Universe works. So you can be happier.

(And I have a mild suggestion for everyone who reads this. This is actually purely and entirely a scientific problem. So, in all the answers you see to this type of question, if the answer contains NO experimental data to back up that answer, or doesn’t contain at least a proposal for such an experiment——I mildly suggest you all nod your head politely, forget every word you just read, and move on to the next answer. I at least have a proposal for an experiment, the construction of a soul-detector, based on ghost-hunter reports of “battery drain”. Here it is. Along with the story of the cat soul who dived through my chest. Yeah, I’ve seen it. It’s not just theory with me.

This answer is not something I’m trying to get you to believe because of the power of my personality. I’m not trying to “inspire” you, but to give you the single answer to that question. An answer that can be deduced through a coldly logical process.

When I tell you “The purpose of life is to get smarter”, it is in the same sense as I tell you “Rocks roll downhill.” Both are physical processes that occur in the real world.

And like any physical process, if you ignore it, you will simply wind up getting hurt. BADLY. The rock will just roll over you and crush you like a bug. Whether you believe in the rock or not.

Consider.

All human action has as its end goal the achievement of a state of happiness. Whatever it is a human does, in the end it is to get happy and stay that way.

The smarter and smarter you are, the easier and easier it is to get happy and stay that way.

So everybody is constantly trying, all the time, to understand how the world works. To get smarter. Whether they want to be doing that or not. About this one thing, they actually have ZERO choice.

Please note that as you interact with the Universe every day trying to get happy, you cannot help but get smarter about how the Universe works.

Let me put it this way: Are you smarter now than you were ten years ago? One year ago? One week ago? When you go to bed at night, are you a little bit smarter than when you woke up that morning?

See how this works? What an automatic process this is?

The basic question has now been answered, but there are some additional HIGHLY critical aspects to this question that need to be pointed out.

If you use dope (hereafter referred to as “emotion drugs”) to get happy instead of interacting with the Universe, the situation changes radically. When you are stoned on emotion drugs, you are no longer interacting with the Universe. If you are no longer interacting with the Universe, it is impossible to learn anything about the Universe---and the getting-smarter process will stop stone-cold dead and even reverse itself with heavy enough use.

The social scientists are starting to detect this, although they don’t understand the process. Heavy dopeheads have a strong tendency to be the same now as they were twenty years ago. They haven’t changed, i.e. they haven’t gotten any smarter.

Nobody understands this better than the dopeheads themselves. What have they called the stuff they use from Day One? “Dope.”

There is a much, much deeper societal problem here that is again not widely understood. If you believe your personality just zeroes out and disappears when your body dies, then getting happy by using emotion drugs is the smartest thing to do. (This belief is the root cause of the opioid epidemic, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.) If that is the case, the getting-smarter process is completely useless and without any real meaning.

The weird thing is that belief is totally wrong. We are all actually eternal beings who have souls. In this case, we are forced to get smarter simply as a matter of self-defense. Because the Universe will be constantly dropping all kinds of random painful hammers on us if we don’t.

And this can be logically, scientifically proved.

Here is that proof. Just to continue your education about how the Universe works. So you can be happier.

(And I have a mild suggestion for everyone who reads this. This is actually purely and entirely a scientific problem. So, in all the answers you see to this type of question, if the answer contains NO experimental data to back up that answer, or doesn’t contain at least a proposal for such an experiment——I mildly suggest you all nod your head politely, forget every word you just read, and move on to the next answer. I at least have a proposa