"Evolitionary" implies some direction and execution scope, does it not?

Possibly I'm guilty of over-reading the word.

How does extra scope (like an afterlife) solve the problem of purpose? Now you have two problems of purpose. If I remember rightly, C.S. Lewis in his sci-fi made heaven into an endless series of adventures, which is the minimum necessary to make it attractive. But this still doesn't resolve to an ultimate purpose any more than a finite life does.

Often the question "what is the purpose of my existence?" is a proxy for some less abstract question, I think. Consider Young Frankenstein, and the gag where characters sing "Oh, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you! At last, I know the secret of it all!" because they got sex. Less cynically, it may simply be a matter of identifying comfortable values, in terms of the possible values available in the human condition in the present day. I mean you're unlikely to be honestly asking a question with a giant universal scope, if you claim that it bothers you personally.

I don't find it contradictory to subscribe to both an individual Destiny and an "universal scope" Destiny of which the individual Destiny is a component.

This Destiny is in tension with Free Will (in my telling).

In retirement, my hope is to produce a lengthy, pretentious exploration of a few ideas that will doubtless help someone's insomnia.

Right, but any identification of the Ultimate Purpose is going to be a very vague bad guess. I kind of like "to learn", but besides that I tend to keep returning to a string bag of mixed values that won't boil down to anything neat.

The reason I don't think Destiny can amount to more than a "very vague bad guess" as an intellectual matter is that such a solution would tamper with Free Will.

So, how does this outlook work? What's free will (or Free Will)?

What I will argue is something like Plato's Tripartite Soul[1] with the proviso that these are orthogonal dimensions.

Free Will, in this telling, exists on the logos/eros plane of the individual.

Destiny is some target on the plane out there at infinity toward which one navigates over time.

The origin of this coordinate system is the heart, and one may or may not hold a connection to the Creator via the thymos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_theory_of_soul

Possibly you're over-reading, but definitely you didn't answer my question.

More explicitly, then, "evolutionary" implies some grasp of a direction toward which things evolve.

Otherwise, it's just so many chemical reactions.

Evolution does not imply direction at all. Only change under selection pressure. There is no direction things are moving towards.

Serious question: how can one be sure that there is "evolution" occuring?