it makes no sense at all
2006-10-05 16:36:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not all atheists claim to have a purpose. So, the question is mostly moot.
Since I don't view us as having our purpose, I live life as best as I can. I don't try to hasten my demise, since I don't view an afterlife as a viable route. Since no god is going to take care of me and my kind, it's up to me to do so.
Life in general doesn't make sense except for what you assign to it. I make sense of life by living it as best I can. Christians make sense of life by placing his life in the hands of a superior being (whether he is right or not).
2006-10-05 16:38:42 · answer #1 · answered by Rev Kev 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hey, Christianity makes even less sense. Earth created in 7 days, god is a holy triune, virgin births, great floods...all fairy tales only fools would believe.
Now I'm not an atheist, but there is no such thing as an accident. The universe opperates according to scientific law - everything that results has a cause and effect.
If you're talking about evolution, then you're gravely wrong. Evolution is a complex system that results in the survival of a species.
2006-10-05 23:40:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"accident" is different from "chance."
chance is the unplanned and random flip of the coin. that doesn't mean that the parents didn't plan the conception; it's that the parents aren't chosen, nor are the chromosomes, etc.
it's chance i wasn't born a male--not an accident that i was born female. i know i'm talking semantics here, but you have to look a the way words are used in order to talk about what they're saying.
the flip of the coin brought me here, gave me my parents, gave me the environment i was to grow up in. . . that doesn't mean i cannot have a purpose. (i'm not even an atheist, by the way.) i have a strong purpose in life even though my being here wasn't planned and directed. i will be happy and help who i can and have love and give love and do my job well and with passion and try to make a positive difference because i AM here, right now, regardless of the chance that brought me here.
2006-10-06 16:23:59 · answer #3 · answered by serasotto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The path that life choose wasn't planned, it was unpredictable because life itself is unpredictable. However, all life has a purpose, no matter what path it is on. I'm not going to pretend that I have the answer, but personally I think the purpose of life is to perpetuate the human race by means of reproduction, and leave the world a better place than when you came in it.
2006-10-05 23:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We create our own purpose. The same way you do. If you are religious it's a choice you made, and you adopted that purpose for your life. Other people see their purpose in parenting, in creating, in helping the downtrodden, in changing the world (hopefully improving it in some way), in building relationships, in building communities, in achieving something that's never been done before, in discovering the way the world works, in helping keep other people employed.
How can you say people like Carl Sagan, Bill Gates, Abraham Lincoln, and Leonard Bernstein had no purpose?
2006-10-05 23:46:42 · answer #5 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My "purpose" isn't like the religious purpose of trying to "get saved". My purpose is to improve the world to the best of my abilities. Using your logic, children who are "accidents" have no purpose. But you and I both know this is blatantly untrue. The meaning to our lives is the meaning we give it, not what a god tells us to make our lives out to be.
2006-10-05 23:41:00 · answer #6 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one has a purpose in an overall plan of the world. It's what we make of our own lives gives us purpose to live. Living is purpose enough to wake up in the morning. There is no plan, just days after days. Better make the best of it. Life is the longest thing you'll ever go through.
Now go and play...read your bible....or whatever you do....
2006-10-05 23:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Now let's be realistic. Every species on this planet, humans included, has but one purpose...to propogate their species.
What makes no sense is how people can read the bible, and take it as the truth. Hell, it barely makes for passable fiction, let alone non fiction...
2006-10-05 23:41:16 · answer #8 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't say I have a purpose. Not only that but I don't need a purpose for life, I'm happy to be alive-pure and simple.
2006-10-05 23:41:15 · answer #9 · answered by claudiagiraffe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not a fact of belief, It is a fact of knowing.And I don't have a purpose in life. If I died now the Earth would still turn and the sun would still shine. And you would still be preaching your Bull dung heap.
2006-10-06 00:18:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋