# Are we living in this time on purpose? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 1, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467 "2025-11-01T01:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467/25 "2025-11-01T16:53:18Z")
LOTR Pedant: “Gandalf” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467/26 "2025-11-01T17:22:18Z")
> [@SaSaLeLe2011](#): > > And there’s not a trace of Europe in Africa. The white South Africans will be very surprised at this. Anyhow, the ‘60s were far more interesting. I think I was there, hard to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467/27 "2025-11-01T21:08:56Z")
> And there’s not a trace of Europe in Africa. The Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla beg to differ. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467/28 "2025-11-01T21:16:18Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I can’t speak for anyone else, but I blame not dying in the 2010s as my biggest reason. ‘Seven years and six months!’ Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. ‘An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you’d asked **my** advice, I’d have said “Leave off at seven” — but it’s too late now.’ ‘I never ask advice about growing,’ Alice said indignantly. ‘Too proud?’ the other enquired. Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. ‘I mean,’ she said, ‘that one ca’n’t help growing older.’ ‘ **One** can’t, perhaps,’ said Humpty Dumpty; ‘but **two** can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.’ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467/29 "2025-11-02T01:33:57Z")
“Now the world is mostly a bunch of a-holes acting out of greed.” Such has it been for all of history. Delenda est Carthago. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467/30 "2025-11-02T03:31:13Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CeITHRlkg4I/hqdefault.jpg "Les Crane - Desiderata (Child of the universe) 1971") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeITHRlkg4I) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467/31 "2025-11-02T06:30:35Z")
I’m grateful to be living in the time of rapid transport, advanced healthcare, and indoor plumbing. Added bonus, the free entertainment. I’m a bit disappointed by the rampant greed, but that seems to be an inescapable human trait. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-living-in-this-time-on-purpose/1024467.md?page=1)