atheists .. what is your point in this life ...? ... and?

Question

what is the point of life according to you .. or simply .. why we are here ?

Answer 1

Let's see... the point......

The point is to raise my son to be happy, healthy and wise. The point is learning and contributing and enjoying. The point is harmony and ideals and equality. The point is making the most of what you've got and recognizing what you don't. The point is living for good and living for bad and living for it all.

There is no answer to why because there is no universal purpose. We are animals. We scurry about, working and reproducing and growing and creating and thinking and eating and sleeping and pooping and driving and ...... you get my point. That's it. We exist and then we cease to exist. The cycle repeats with more and more new animals. Life perpetuates.

That may be a scary answer. That may not be what you want to hear. It may not be "good enough" to be considered random and universally, ultimately pointless. Unfortunately it's all I can tell you because, again, that's all there is. False hope rarely does anyone any good so this is the truth for ya, pleasant or not.

Answer 2

"Life starting" is a colloquial term. It's useless for scientific purposes. Technically, the gamete is the product of the synthesis of both the egg and the sperm. Both the egg and the sperm cells were alive at the point of conception, and they never "died" when they synthesized. Technically, the new organism formed as soon as fertilization occured. But this is fairly irrelevant to any moral questions. Why would the four cells produced from fertilization be of any more or less intrinsic value than any other cells? These cells can be subsumed back into the body of the mother. They can split off, as the cells undergo mitosis, to form two seperate organisms. You seem to be stuck on mind-body dualism. Most atheists don't believe in "souls". There is absolutely no evidence to support the existence of souls, and a large body of evidence that indicates that the behaviour of human beings is largely a product of the brain. Souls have no scientific credibility, and thus should not be discussed if we're paying attention to things like "material evidence". We should only take into account what we know. The real question is, when (if ever) does the fetus develop the relevant properties to be considered as a person? Further, what are these relevant properties? These questions cannot be answered by science alone; they involve value judgements. However, there is a general consensus in the scientific communty that fetuses are sufficiently developed during the third trimester to be worthy of some moral recognition. Others judge this point based off of independence from the mother's body. I would agree with the scientific community at large that the fetus becomes morally relevant at around the third trimester, for many reasons, which I won't list in full here. (this does not address the mother's right to bodily autonomy, which requires another response) I will leave my prior questions unanswered, becauase I don't have a good objective response to them. But they are still important, if only to guide one's analysis of the moral relevance of the fetus. (which is the real question here)

Answer 3

We aren't here FOR something. Look to the sky, especially on a stormy night. See all those clouds and feel the wind. Doesn't that make you feel that you are not even a tiny grain of sand in the beach? We are an accident, a coincidence. If one particular sperm had not met one particular ovum, you or I wouldn't be here. Of all the zillions of sperms and the zillions of ova in the world, only a few million combinations actually took place. We are the product of a tremendous chance happening.

So, why are we here? Just... because.

And what's our point in life? Enjoying it, trying to take the most of this beautiful accident of statistics we call life.

Answer 4

Everyone's answer will be different. And this question is so huge that nobody can really cover everything. There are lots of good answers to this question, both before and after mine.

My personal meaning of life is happiness. Not just my happiness, but world happiness. I see that I'm part of a whole. And when the whole is happy, I'm happy.

And not only is short term happiness important, but long term happiness as well. We must live responsibly.

The opposite of happiness is suffering. Suffering is bad. Happiness is good. Actions are wrong if they increase suffering, or decrease happiness. (Again, considering both short term and long term.)

But, to say that there is a "reason" "why" we are here implies a God. So, your question is moot. (There is no absolute reason.)

But life is very exciting without believing in God. Instead of just hoping that God will make things all right in the end, we assume that life isn't fair unless we do our part to do good and to make it as fair as possible. And when it comes to understanding something about the universe that we don't know, instead of just giving up, we struggle to learn more (hence the advancement of things such as medicine, which improve our lives).

Answer 5

Most of the answers given here has to do with human issues.

Nothing in nature requires the presence of humans for the survival of any thing in nature. Nature does not create anything that does not support something else in nature.

The tiniest microbe or the housefly have purposes in nature, they support other life forms. Humans support NOTHING!
Humans only destroy nature and kill each other! So, why are humans even here to begin with since there is no requirement for humans, no purpose, no reason?

Humans effect nothing positively, neither on earth or what ever is out there. What we do as humans do not justify human existence in a sphere where every entity has a purpose except humans.

Answer 6

We are here due to a combination of coincidence and luck. We are nothing more than another species that has evolved.

The point I have in life is that which I feel others need to share. One thing I do share is that there doesn't need to be a purpose. Plants exist because they do, not because they make things more colorful or whatever.

Answer 7

We are here to learn and contribute and make the world a better place for those to come.

Or, maybe there is no point, except what we make of life. Life is to live while we have it. Does one really need an overall point? Isn't each and every day enough?

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean

Why are you here?

Answer 8

Your purpose in life is what you make it. It's that simple. In the eyes of nature, we live for the purpose of passing on our genes to a new generation. Once you've reproduced, you've fulfilled your purpose according to nature.

Fortunately we are capable of creating our own purpose in life beyond mere survival. And we don't have a god to thank for it...just an advanced and complex brain.

Answer 9

Well just to live and do the things you like doing, then at the end of it its lights out and thats it,so make the best of your life while your here.

Answer 10

To leave the world a better place than when I got here, and to enjoy my life to the fullest till I totally wear myself out and spend every cent I have, then die.
Tammi Dee