Also - who thinks they have found it?
2006-10-11 01:45:38 · 20 answers · asked by sexycandlelightguy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Only God knows what your purpose here on earth is. He has a plan for you. You are to worship him, keep his commandments and try to bring non believers to him.
2006-10-11 05:23:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
As much as no one wants to hear it, it appears there isn't one.
Explorers have trekked both above and below earths surface to find something or anything explaining our purpose.
At best we've achieved little more than guess's. We still have no idea of which came first, the chicken or the egg of where existence begins.
Frustrated,...
Science has set up gigantic earphones and radio signals in the hope of contacting alien life. What a joke, we're even attempting to penetrate space in an effort to find any kind of life elsewhere.
While we still have very little knowledge of our own.
Best guess and bottom line you'd think would be, because we all crave it, to love one and another. But, instead, if you look closely it appears killing each other is closer to our reality. Obviously, everything we've allowed to influence us, like church, state, corporations and media have all chosen to know what's better for us and all see things differently. We're always being pulled between pillar and post making it all the more difficult to gain any purpose, true or not.
2006-10-11 05:30:00 · answer #2 · answered by thomnjo2 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think it's true happiness. If you are truly happy, then there's nothing else you want. But I don't think it's easy to achieve - if you buy something you've wanted for years, you'll be happy - but not truly happy, because in a while you'll tire of it and use it less, and by then something else will have grabbed your eye.
Think about it - we love situations that make us feel good, and anything that gives us pain and misery we tend to avoid. Of course, being truly happy is an immensly difficult task, because there's always something to be nervous or worried about - whether you can pay the mortgage, whether the right party will be voted in, etc.
If you have a conscience as well, then you can't be truly happy by taking advantage of somebody else. You'll feel good, but that voice in the back of your head will make you feel a little guilty, so you won't be truly happy.
So the only real way we can be happy is by helping each other, by helping third world countries and ending all wars eternally.
I certainly haven't found true happiness yet, but I hope to achieve that as I live my life.
2006-10-11 02:10:02 · answer #3 · answered by SRS 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every human being's purpose in life is to fulfill his/her personal mission, which might be motherhood or fatherhood, artistic creation, volunteering, etc.
Our other goal is to understand and accept ourselves, in order to be able to understand and accept other human beings. Once we get to express our uniqueness, we realize that these unique facets are part of a whole and that we belong to the family of mankind. But we have to go through this solitary road first. Only later do we grasp that our differences are actually part of the universal.
2006-10-12 09:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aristotle, in "Nicomachean Ethics" and "Politics" has an argument that claims the "eudaimonia" is the purpose of man. Roughly translated, it is close to "fluorishing" or "contentment" than "pleasure".
The American philosophers CS Pierce and John Dewey took that idea and gave it a twist: the end of man is something that we continuously revise and reexamine.
2006-10-11 08:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by James P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has their own purpose. Perhaps it is even more than one purpose. We do so many things and touch so many people throughout our lifetime that we may play our part in forming the development and path of other people.
I don't think it is really necessary to find your purpose in life. Finding your purpose in life is often jsut what makes you happy, or what you feel is your responsibility due to past experiences. I think our true higher purpose(s) are unwittingly accomplished amidst our daily lives.
2006-10-11 02:13:38 · answer #6 · answered by wvukid21 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Around 3000 years ago a group of human beings in Athens Greece developed a new philosophy. The basic religion of humanity, it's called humanism. It said The aim of human life is to know thyself to create and design your own order in the chaos.
Our biological purpose on the other hand is to procreate.
2006-10-11 01:55:24 · answer #7 · answered by Jake Lockley 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Viewing human beings simply as very complex organisms, then their sole purpose is to reproduce to pepetuate the species. The religious reasons for 'purpose' came a lot later... around 200,000+ years later, in fact!
2006-10-11 01:56:49 · answer #8 · answered by avian 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
With 6,000,000,000 billion persons on this planet...to speak of a "true" purpose is a vast waste of thought and intent.....Better to dwell on kindness as the foundation of ones actions....to diligently become awake and aware and to liberate beings from suffering of all kinds....
2006-10-11 01:55:13 · answer #9 · answered by zasetsu57 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You know, life is full of ups and downs, sometimes you are going to wonder why am i here, what is my purpose. I wonder that too...but one thing you have to think about is that you must be here for a purpose because your still living, your still breathing...your not going to know right away...but God could have a plan for you....that is if you believe and trust in him!!!!!
2006-10-11 01:56:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋