2006-08-15 04:22:37 · 48 answers · asked by Brina 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who says there's a purpose?
2006-08-15 04:26:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm led to believe that even to pose the question is a bit of a conceit. There is an assumption that we are special, somehow different from the rest of the flotsam and jetsam of the universe. But isn't it just as likely, or even more likely, that our aspirations to importance may just be an instinctive, but empty, arrogance?
From a few miles up we seem to be a surface irritation on one of many planets. And we may or may not survive for some time to come. If we disappeared altogether I doubt the rest of the universe would mourn, or even notice.
I believe the best way to conceive of it is that life is its own purpose - and every conceivable joy is contained within it. To use the words of a man I once new:
"You are potentially wise if you understand life has no purpose. You approach widsom when you understand it can HAVE no purpose."
2006-08-15 09:22:48 · answer #2 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of life is to try the best you can to acheive your goals and succeed in every event of your life. Also, it is to pass the many good and bad that occurs in life through the teachings of love, peace, manner and belief. God created life for humans as a test for every human because humans were given the challenge to acheive Heaven or acheive Hell. Some humans would go to heaven. Others to hell. Those who go to heaven are good, pious, loving and God-fearing. While Hell is the opposite. Here is one advice: If you want a good life, fear God, love him and follow the right path to him. If you want to fail the test given from God Almighty than do whatever bad you want to do but you should remember that God is going to resurrect us all and ask what we have done. Anyway, I am not sure if you believe in a religion or not 'cause you never said. So, Good Luck!!!
2006-08-15 04:35:53 · answer #3 · answered by Suliman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't a real answer to that question. There is no purpose of life in general. The purpose of your life is whatever you make it.
2006-08-15 04:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by Wolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everybody sees their purpose differently, basically your purpose is to do the best you can with what you have while you're here.
every life makes a difference to someone at some point, make the most out of yours & you should move on just fine
2006-08-15 04:33:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To reach level 7 in yahoo answers of course...
Really though Gods purpose for each of us is different you will need to spend time with him to find out. Ultimatly our purpose is to do his will.
2006-08-15 04:26:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do people always ask this question?
Just enjoy your life and make the best of it.
If you keep asking people this question, then you're not any better than those who committed Islamic suicide bombing killing the innocents. Those people started off with asking the same question and interpreted in the wrong way.
2006-08-15 04:30:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose is to love God. It is why He made you to begin with.
2006-08-15 04:27:22 · answer #8 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To serve God by having children and working to make the world a better place for them to live in.
2006-08-15 04:29:15 · answer #9 · answered by Answers1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ask this same question once in a meditation. The answer came clear as a bell.
It said I have placed you here to learn the true meaning of Love. What ever it was that was answering then told me something that really set me back. It said that I felt the way I did about certain people because I did not understand the true meaning of love. I protested and said that I did my best to love all of
the people who were deserving of love.
It replied "yes that is, you’re misunderstanding. You see love as something
that you dole out in tiny little portions here and there to people who you
have judged to be worthy of it. This is not love at all, it is only
judgment". This stopped me dead in my tracks. I suddenly realized that what
it was saying to me was true. This realization brought me to tears. It went
on and told me, "You treat love as though there is some shortage of it. It
is not something that you can run out of. The more love that you give, the
more love that there is in the world. Its that simple. The only way that
there can be a shortage of it is if you hoard it and keep it to yourself."
It went on to explain, that "this is what Jesus was trying to tell you when
he asked you to turn the other cheek, to judge not and to love your
neighbor. He made no exceptions in these things that he requested of you.
Why are you making exceptions, and judging some as worthy of love and others
as not? Jesus fully intended for you to apply this love that you are to all,
in a universal manner without any judgment of any sort". By this time the tears
Were flowing so freely. I was crying because for the first time in my life I
Understood what the message Jesus left for us in the bible actually meant.
This has become my truth. I can't say what yours is for sure, but I have a feeling that it is probably similar.
Love and blessings
don
2006-08-15 04:26:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋