2006-08-28 13:21:05 · 35 answers · asked by techaondarn 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The purpose of my life is to be the very best person I can be, to never stop looking at ways in which I could do better, treat others better, try harder, work harder, be nicer, be slimmer, be more physically fit, be a better mother, be a more patient person, have empathy, show compassion, learn more, study more, explore more possibilities, teach more, and then leave my world with people in it who say, "She was a good woman, and will be missed." I only have, to the best of MY knowledge, this one life to live. When it's over, it's over, so it better count for something.
2006-08-28 21:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you have to have a God to have a purpose? That's pretty sad. The purpose of my life is to survive like any other animal. However as a human I have a choice to do a lot of other things along the way. I feel bad for you that you have to have a reward or goal to motivate you, I just like to do what I can and go on with life.
2006-08-28 13:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
To live in a way worthy of the rare creature that I am. There's a whole wide natural universe out here, and we living beings are the only things capable of appreciating it. My purpose is to do that appreciation, as much as possible, by having experiences and noticing them, and not just coasting through life unaware, or worse, devaluing life.
That's the real beauty of being an atheist - atheists value life.
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Woo-hoo! Great collection of responses, folks. And what a fool we made of that guy about 10 responses down who seemed to assume that atheists wouldn't have a purpose for life. LOL
2006-08-28 13:24:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
One purpose is to learn as much as I can about life and the universe and to help my generation pass that knowledge on to the generations that follows us. Another purpose is to love and be loved. I guess I also have a purpose to reproduce. I certainly love being a dad and watching my daughter learn and grow. But I think I care as much about the ideas that I pass on to her mind as I do about the genes that I pass on in her body. I definitely want her to be free of useless fear and guilt, and fully aware that her life in this body is her only life so she must make the best of it.
I am an atheist with respect to the God of The Old Testament, but I am agnostic with respect to the broader question of whether there is a supernatural creator of the universe.
It seems to me that when monotheists say that their purpose in life is to worship God, then they must be saying that they think that is answer that would most please God too. If so, then it seems to me that the Christian God is pretty selfish. I believe that if there is a God, then that God would not be so selfish, and would feel towards us more like I feel towards my daughter.
2006-08-28 14:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are here because we are a mechanism by which genes make more copies of themselves - i.e. we're the product of unthinking, undirected natural phenomena. There are no gods or goddesses, angels, demons, spirits or whatever - those are just children's story book characters - and hence these ideas cannot provide meaning or purpose to our lives.
For myself, I didn't choose to exist, but now I'm here I want to enjoy life, bring up my kids well, leave the world a slightly better place than when I joined it, and die having no major regrets about what I have or haven't done in my life.
2006-08-28 13:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
My purpose in life is to reproduce and therefore help keep the human race going strong. That's pretty much everyone's real goal, if you think about it. That's the purpose of any animal's life.
2006-08-28 13:27:21 · answer #6 · answered by WinkleDoodle 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
im not an athiest.. but any purpose of any life is to live it, and try to leave this world a better place than you found it
2006-08-28 13:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by thetomsterrr 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
To live a happy life, same as you. Or is the purpose of your life to convert every single non-believer? Because I don't think that is a very happy occupation--but to each their own!
2006-08-28 13:25:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
No purpose really other then to live life and reproduce, the same as every other animal on earth.
2006-08-28 13:35:20 · answer #9 · answered by curls 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL Good luck.
You'll find as many purposes here as there are atheists who answer--as we are all in the process of finding our own purpose for life.
It would really suck to have someone outside of me telling me what my purpose in life is. It would be like having someone else tell me what career I will pursue and who I will marry. I prefer to discover that on my own :)
2006-08-28 13:26:09 · answer #10 · answered by mikayla_starstuff 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋