Life......... for?

Question

Do you believe men was created for a purpose?
We as humans are weaker in body power so we gained intelligence
With that intelligence comes the power to reason.
With that reasoning we question our purpose
We henceforth make up a purpose for our lifes to make it more meaningful.
There is no purpose to life.
DIsagree or agree? please state why

Answer 1

I have made it my purpose in life is to learn everything I can before I die.

Answer 2

I disagree.

There is something that many people call "spirit", which is the thing that animates a living being, and which leaves the body at death. Call it what you want, but it's there and it can't be measured as part of an experiment, which is why it isn't in science textbooks.

The purpose of life in general is twofold. First, it is the creation of beings in whom this spirit can have full expression. Second, it is the accumulated experience of all life forms--learning.

What I mean by "full expression" is this. The characteristics of spirit include love, forgiveness, peace, and unity. As the higher life forms (humans) progress, these characteristics will become more and more common in them until, eventually, there is a life form which doesn't experience hate, conflict, and other negative aspects of life.

These things are a symptom of not "being there" yet, but you can see this spiritual development in many people today--and this number has been increasing for thousands of years.

Our individual lives become more meaningful to us as we learn to understand life more. As we learn, we lose our attachments to cherished objects and learn to let go. When we let go, we suddenly find that we just gained everything and that there is meaning wherever we go. We carry it with us.

People who can't figure this out often choose an arbitrary purpose for their own lives and pursue it. This still gives them satisfaction and a feeling of accomplishment, but it doesn't compare to real understanding. It's like living with the light on, compared to being in the dark all the time.

Answer 3

How about this: even if we don't make up a purpose, one presents itself biologically. I think the cultural, reasonable, whatever you want to call it, element of ourselves works in the same fashion. The purpose is to make more like-minded individuals. Then, whatever you ascribe to... whatever system of meaning, even if it's no meaning, becomes your way to create more like-minded individuals. Religions, states, countries, nations, clubs, colleges, basically any organization functions on the same principal- does it not? Whether we're societal products or prior social consciousness is irrelevant, because it takes place, biologically, if not otherwise.

Answer 4

I dissagree completely.

I'm an objectiveist. It was a philosophy taught by Ayn Rand. But basicaly I believe that the highest moral objective of man is his own happiness. He can achieve this many ways, but the best way is that of productive achievement, becuase then he has pride a sence of accomplishment and happiness.

Read "The Fountainhead".

if it doesn't change your life...

then read "Atlas Shrugged"

it WILL.

Answer 5

I definately agree coz it has being proven time and time again that man has to contradict the fact, in order to gain purpose trying to prove that his view is correct.

Answer 6

This question has plagued mankind since we were capable of coherent thought.

You think it'll be answered on an internet forum-type thing?

I disagree. I think life has a purpose, we just don't know it.

That is such a cop-out though.