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2006-07-11 16:46:47 · 9 answers · asked by truly4lifetime 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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No sense, no purpose.

Here's how life goes:
You work six days a week and on Sunday you do all the things around the house that you haven't been doing all week.
After all of your chores are done you get to sit on your porch and drink a couple of beers and relax. Then you go to bed, get up and do it all again.
You do this until you are dead. Then you spend eternity in hell for drinking the beer.
That's life.

2006-07-11 16:50:25 · answer #1 · answered by Norman Conquest 3 · 0 1

Love. If there were no meaning to life, why then would we love things in our lives? If you say it simply has to do with things that help us, then things we do for others we do not know become pointless (and as a recipient of kindness from a person who I'd talked to only on the phone and for five minutes max at that-they found my wallet and sent it to me with all of my money in it, there was nothing else of value in it so I had no worries about ID theft and they took nothing anyway) and we would have no motivation. But we do that so why do we do that? There must be some meaning in that action.

When one thinks about why we do things, it seems that love motivates us, moves us, and calls us and in my opinion ultimately leads to a purpose for life no matter how you look at anything else. There become percussions after this if one is willing to acknowledge the existence of the percusions but that's not the question being asked. It'll be interesting to see what you get from everyone.

2006-07-11 17:10:13 · answer #2 · answered by astronwritingthinkingprayingrnns 2 · 0 0

Our purpose here is to first understand why we chose to come here, as a particular person, to consider our life choices and to know why we chose a particular family, and life circumstances to create a particular personality, nothing is a consequence other than what we learn from it about ourselves, life is not to live but to learn, every body lives but few learn.

We chose to come under a particular configuration of stars and planets so we can experience particular life circumstances created by the influence of those celestial circumstances which then manifest regularly in our life.

Hence knowing our celestial circumstances is as essential as knowing what our particular life circumstances are teaching us.

When we begin to see our life through our eyes of acceptance, we begin to see what is it that we needed to see or experience in order to heal what lies broken or unhealed in us. And we do that consecutively through several lifetimes till we understand that it is all an illusion created to learn our divine potential as a human being. So that we can then learn to be our own divine Self.

Our personality is what our life circumstances and our past choices had created to help us see life in different way than others. And when we have seen that we are free to drop it, that personality all together.

But the real challenge is to then take life beyond our personality and our fate, so that we can become what we have come with, our potential, our destiny, to have a divine experience while we are here in a human form, and that is the goal of human life. No matter what shape, size, colour or nationality we might choose to come into.

Choices define and create life for us, so the idea is to find out why we made the choices, the way we did. We have already made our life choices before we came here in the present; now it is the time to understand why we did so, and make better ones. But that happens only when we are willing let go of our past experiences and remember our divine potential. Fate is only a collection of our past choices and destiny, a creation of our present. What we choose from now on, will create what we will experience from now on. Our future fate is in our hand and so is our potential.

Knowing and applying this very knowledge while making our life choices is empowerment.

2006-07-11 17:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by Abhishek Joshi 5 · 0 0

The "Purpose of Life" is to "Give Life Purpose". It's up to us. Do we lead an insular life and prehaps collect a lot of "things"? Or do we somehow make a difference with our life? In someone else's life? Even in a small way.

2006-07-11 17:06:28 · answer #4 · answered by xfan 1 · 0 0

One day, God created the dog and said: "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of 20 years." The dog said: "That's a long time to be barking. How about only 10 years and I'll give you back the other 10?" So God agreed.
On the next day, God created the monkey and said: "Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a 20-year life span." The monkey said: "Monkey tricks for 20 years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back 10 like the dog did?" And God agreed.
On the next day, God created the cow and said: "You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of 60 years."
The cow said: "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for 60 years. How about 20 and I'll give back the other 40?"
And God agreed again .
Then on the next day, God created man and said: "Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you 20 years." But man said: "Only 20 years? Could you possibly give me my 20, the 40 the cow gave back, the 10 the monkey gave back, and the 10 the dog gave back? That makes 80, OK?" "OK," said God, "You asked for it" .
So that is why the first 20 years we eat, sleep, play, and enjoy ourselves. For the next 40 years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next 10 years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last 10 years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained.

2006-07-11 17:07:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Live life to the fullest, have family so the speceis doesn't die out, and protect the children til' they come of age.

2006-07-11 16:51:48 · answer #6 · answered by The Max 2 · 0 0

Thats what Billy Crystal found in the movie.."City Slickers"....he called it that 1 thing...that everyone has to find for themselves.

2006-07-11 16:52:20 · answer #7 · answered by G-Bear 4 · 0 0

To live for someone greater than we are, for a reason we didn't decide and for a time beyond which we can see.

2006-07-11 17:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by foxray43 4 · 0 0

LIFE IS LIKE A CHOCOLATE, DON'T CHEW IT AT A TIME. ALLOW IT TO STAY LONGER IN YOUR MOUTH AND EXPERIENCE THE MELLOW EFFECT.

2006-07-11 17:11:50 · answer #9 · answered by Kgs 4 · 0 0

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