# Can something exist without purpose?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-something-exist-without-purpose/511923>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 28, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-something-exist-without-purpose/511923 "2009-09-28T23:58:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-something-exist-without-purpose/511923/61 "2009-10-03T09:52:56Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Somewhere a billion light years away, there is a dead airless planet that no intelligent creature will ever see. On a plain on that planet, there is a boulder. It exists; it has no purpose and never will.

And now am thinking about it and its pointless desolate existence!!

I’ll never see it and its annoying me!

See I knew it! the point is it exists solely to piss me off!!

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