2006-09-13 21:49:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A minister of some education will fully understand that there is indeed an answer available for which atheism has no means to ground a similar response: There is genuine meaning and purpose to our lives -- not mere fabrications.
EDIT: Wow.. four thumbs down... must have made someone angry. ;)
2006-09-13 21:57:41 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
The universe is the universe. Life is life. Who said they need to have a purpose? To do what? To please whom?
Just behave and help your brothers. You will feel better and that is your reward.
About what happens after we die... I don't even know what happened before I was born (apart for what my parents did). When I opened my eyes I didn't know which kind of creature I was, and I couldn't help anyway. It happened once, than it could happen again. Who knows? We won't remember and it is out of our control anyway.
Until now no religion satisfied me understanding who I am, where I am, and what am I doing here.
That God wants me to behave or I will be punished after my death does not convince me a bit. I behave because I feel good doing so and I wouldn't harm anybody, not because of fear of punishment but because I hate to see other people suffering, much less if it was for my cause.
If religions were true they wouldn't be causing so much pain to so many innocent creatures. I believe it is all about power.
2006-09-14 05:21:25 · answer #2 · answered by NaughtyBoy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you think there is a purpose of an Ants life?
Or maybe a child that died immediatly as he was born?!
My friend, being an atheist will remove the fake glasses of religons, it will put you ahead to the cruel world of reality.!
Being an atheist will force you to realize that being a human isn't different than any other animal over this planet.
Then you'll realize there is NO PURPOSE OF BEING ALIVE.
The second questing is meaningless, because there is nothing after death.
Oh, allow me to ask you.
where were you before you were born?! :p
regards.
2006-09-14 05:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by ParadoX 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose is the purpose you give it. In your family, your friends, your career, your work, in making the world a better place, in helping strangers.
And what happens after you die? You're gone. It's just like it was before you were born.
2006-09-14 04:53:58 · answer #4 · answered by rorgg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose to life is what you make it and when you die it will be exactly what it was like for you before you were born.
2006-09-14 05:17:10 · answer #5 · answered by AiW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only logical "purpose" to life is to sustain itself. After you die, you go back to the same "nothing" you were before you were born. Where were "you" 300 years ago? That's the same place "you" will be after you die.
2006-09-14 05:15:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of life is to live life..
when you die you physically do not exist although in the hearts and minds of the people you come in contact with every day you shall continue to exist.
2006-09-14 04:59:35 · answer #7 · answered by n8 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is to please an imaginary father figure who acts in a completely capricious and arbitrary manner in regards to determining the rules for who will be allowed to go on to live an equally meaningless life under his control for an eternity, or, will send those who fail to interpret his capricious rules properly to an unending and equally meaningless eternally miserable existence.
Either that or we are here to live life just like all other animals and when we die, we are dead and gone with no eternal existence of any kind.
The choice is yours, whichever version makes you happiest.
What we believe has no effect on the fact when we are dead, we are dead.
2006-09-14 05:03:32 · answer #8 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You die. You're done. Dead. That's it. No glamorous pearly gates, no goat men with pitchforks and horns, no winged apparitions, no walking on clouds. No 'holy wars'. Why does life have to have a purpose? The purpose of life is .....wait for it...... to live.
2006-09-14 05:01:38 · answer #9 · answered by John R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no purpose to life and there is nothing after you die. In fact, the concept of "after death" is meaningless, because that's when your personal universe ends.
2006-09-14 04:53:58 · answer #10 · answered by Chasiufan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
*Sigh*
The only purpose to your life is what you give it. Not me, not some preacher. You.
If anyone tells you that they "know" what will happen after death then they are selling something. No one has come back from true death and told us a thing about what is beyond it.
2006-09-14 05:25:11 · answer #11 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋