You eat, drink, have sex (if your lucky),and have fun. Is that all their is in life?
2006-06-21 10:59:16 · 34 answers · asked by Smart_Guy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no its living for Jesus and God. Its much better that way. Serving the Lord is all you need to live for. Nothing else.
2006-06-21 11:03:04 · answer #1 · answered by {Land,Sea&Air} 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
You don't have to ask an atheist in order to find out what life is for. Just take a look at life. Look at a moth. Look a some tiny bacteria that lives twenty minutes before it splits in two. Look at all that is alive and you will know a little bit more about life.
You could also ask a non-living. Why is a stone a stone? What is it waiting there for?
We are what we are because there is no other way. The good thing about us humans is that we can make it enjoyable in an infinity of ways. Of course, we don't often do that, I mean, enjoy ourselves in an infinity of ways, on an individual basis. Eh!
2006-06-21 11:15:25 · answer #2 · answered by reading_is_dangerous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You live with honor (your own), and get to experience a range of incredible things (sex, food, cliff-jumping, a sunset at the beach). You get to see what happens next to the world (always good for us morbidly curious ones) and you get to experience true beauty.
When you're not certain whether there's an afterlife (though it'd be nice), you engage every moment fully. Life is not a dress rehearsal or a way to collect brownie points, but the real thing. I think it makes everything a bit more intense, both the joy and the suffering. And the universe is a pretty amazing place.
2006-06-21 11:07:11 · answer #3 · answered by Alex G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On a personal level, life is much more than just that. On the grand scale about why we are here, I don't think anyone knows that, holy or not. One thing I'm not going to waste my short life on this planet doing is worshipping one of many gods / religions: all of which were dreamt up in the minds of people in order to enforce conformity and order into society, much in the same way that modern law does but without the fantasy to embelish it.
What do you think your purpose in life is?
2006-06-21 11:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by anonymous_dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Life is about making a better place for our community and our future generations. If you are so selfish that you need to be rewarded for being good after you die then please continue believing in god because I wouldn't want someone like that living on my planet. Don't ask what life is for- ask what you are for and be the best person you can be; not because god wants you to be, but because you want to be the best person you can be.
p.s. I am not an atheist; I am an agnostic.
2006-06-21 11:06:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe we are here to evolve which we are doing all the time, while we are here we should enjoy whatever lifes pleasure brings, if your a dog, you enjoy sleeping and eating bones, no religion, no god, just a nice bone.
So as far as i am concerned, the belief in any higher being is up to the individual, he should keep that belief to his self, why do the bible bashers feel they are so insecure they need to try and sway people to their way of thinking all the time, if you enjoy your god, then enjoy, just stop pushing him on to every body else.
2006-06-21 11:07:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to have children and evolve, explore the universe and expand the depth of human knowledge. along the way your right all we do is eat, sleep, drink and sometimes make a mess of things but that is all part of darwins theory...hey 60 years ago we all thought smoking was good for us and the troops were encouraged to smoke, but through experience we now know it slowly kills us.
i hope there is something afterwards but i figure as long as i lead a good life and do the best i can, if i'm wrong god won't chuck me out of heaven for not believing!
2006-06-21 11:07:03 · answer #7 · answered by Kirsty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, pretty much. Is that not enough for you? I think it's a lot, myself. Actually I'd replace "fun" with "happiness". It encompasses more, like satisfaction, that sort of thing. I mean life is life. It has a lot to offer if people would start living it and stop waiting for an imaginary second one.
2006-06-21 11:03:57 · answer #8 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me varify something: Life was meant for two things, reproduction (eventually you find out where it all goes, just wait a while) and the entertainment value. So, basically, all life is for is sex, which is actually the reason the human mind pleasures it.
2006-06-21 11:03:45 · answer #9 · answered by Ares Hunter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is a God and I also don't believe in an afterlife. Does this mean that I think my life is pointless? No. I still have dreams, goals and things I want to see and do before I die. I still have morals and values. I still want to contribute to society. I just do all this without stopping to pray. But, that's just me. What life is for, is different for everyone.
2006-06-21 11:14:09 · answer #10 · answered by lsupergeorgel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theres a bit more to it than that.
You are born, you give love, you grow, learn develop a personality, develop relationships, affect those you meet, make desicions, have your own family, share love, build a family, strive to be successful, pass on all you have learned to your offspring, try to leave the world a better place.
Don't waste time wondering what it's all about and enjoy the time you have.
2006-06-21 11:11:57 · answer #11 · answered by The Wandering Blade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋