A Conversation for The Meaning of Life
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rosaurasueno Started conversation Sep 30, 2005
Very clever.
In fact, if we all deny that the weather influences what clothes we choose to wear, then our need to dress warmly in the snow will disappear.
No we don't share a collective conscious. Fortunatlely. However, there are some aspects of our subconscious mind that have been inherited in what some analysts call the "collective unconscious" (it's really interesting...read Carl Jung). Some experiences we have resonate within us because they've been passed down to us as part of our humanity, the collective compassion that we have for the human condition.
Who gave it to us? God? Maybe. Maybe not. Could just be in the wiring.
We give our lives meaning. And purpose. Which are not the same thing, though your post seems to use the terms interchangeably. 
Through our choices, our lives acquire significance.
Did some grand design or higher power make it that way? Who knows. But whether or not they (God or whoever you'd like to say) did, our lives do have meaning. Whether we recognize it or not, that's completely different. Whether we accept it or not, also our choice. God doesn't force. That's the great thing.
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