Why are we here?

Question

What is your idea or theory of why we were put on this Earth and why do we all have to have the fastest car, the biggest house, the most money etc. if we are all going to die anyway?

Answer 1

we are here on earth to obey god, the alimighty who created us. this earthy life is a TEST. the eternal life is the REAL life.

Answer 2

We are here because so that we may have the chance to grow and learn. it's all in the principle. To get the satisfaction of falling off a bike and trying again. To know what it's like to get your heart broken. To experience the great and bad things in life before eternal damnation...or heaven and junk but like what it means to live is to enjoy yourself. Sure, you're going to die in the end anyway but does that mean you shouldn't enjoy life while you can? Does that mean you should be negeative abotu everything because you feel like it because you think we're going to die in the end anyway?! Well, NO ONE said you can't have a chance to really live. God put us here to watch us grow. To give us a chance to do good and junk and so on so that we may know the feeling of emotion. Call me cheesy but I guess that's what I am...actually make that chedder, actually I prefer swiss then chedder, how about montary jack cheese? yeah swiss, swiss is good...WAIT!

or maybe god is the kid with the giant magnifying glass and we are the ants...0_o

Answer 3

We are in an infinite time loop and will be here again in 100 trillion years when the universe collapses back to nothing and the big bang happens all over again.It is a perfect cycle that has no beginning or end. See you in 100 trill dude.

Answer 4

We have been put on earth by a much more intelligent race of beings, we are the sum of genetic cloning. There are civilizations mllions of years old who are cloning their race of beings all over the universe for a long drawn out million long year war against god. These ancient people's are the first of their kind, they specifically were created by the hand of god, they are the only one's created directly by god, we were indirectly made by them. They have advanced their technology millions of years more advanced than us, but god is inhibiting them from achieving their own god-like status therefore knowing that they alone cannot defeat god, they create and create in the hopes that through evolution they will have developed a species that will learn to use the full capacity of their minds and defeat god once and for all. This conquering will alow us the full use of our minds which will give us unimaginable power to become a god ourselves and expand the universe for all eternity.

Answer 5

The book 'The Purpose Driven Life' is an attempt to answer this question.

Answer 6

Have you ever said, "I don't care about the money" when you really did?
*yes no

Have you ever lied to others about how much you earn?
*yes no

Have you ever cheated on your taxes (even a little bit)?
yes *no

Have you ever lent money you knew would never be paid back?
yes *no

Do you balance your checkbook every month?
yes *no

Do you know the interest rates on your credit cards?
yes *no

Do you buy more than 5 lottery tickets a year?
yes *no

Do you like to read articles and watch television shows about the wealthy?
*yes no

In general, do you think rich people are happier than poor people?
*yes no

Have you ever stolen money from someone you were dating?
yes *no

Have you ever dated someone because they have a lot of money?
*yes no

Would you rule someone out as a prospective spouse because they were seriously in debt?
*yes no

Would you rather spend the next seven years working at a job you hate that pays $500,000 a year than your dream job for $35,000?
yes *no
I LOVE ANIMALS.. THATS MY DREAM JOB.. I WOULDN'T BE HAPPY DOING ANYTHING ELSE

Would you rather have lunch with George Clooney/Julia Roberts than with investing guru Warren Buffett?
*yes no

Would you pay 15% more for an item of designer clothing than for an identical item without the brand name?
yes no .. not sure

Have you ever secretly wished that a wealthier friend would lose his/her money?
yes *no

Does your mate's bank account matter to you more than his/her body ?
yes no hahaha not sure

Have you ever broken up a friendship/relationship because of a dispute over money?
*yes no

Do you know within a hundred dollars how much debt you have?
yes *no

Have you bought yourself something frivolous in the last three months?
*yes no

Do you forget when people borrow money from you?
yes *no

If you found $1,000 in a paper bag under your seat on a train, would you keep it?
*yes no

Would you choose money over sex?
yes *no hahaha

Would you french kiss Regis Philbin for $5,000?
*yes no hahaha

Would you give up chocolate and beer forever for $100,000?
*yes no

Would you give up TV for a year for $35,000?
yes no too hard to choose

Would you let someone break your arm for $45,000?
yes *no helllllllllllllll no!

Would you pose nude in an adult magazine for $60,000?
*yes no sure why not

Would you never speak to your best friend again for $200,000?
*yes no

Would you give up the next year of your life for $3 million?
yes no HARD QUESTION .. i probably would tho

Answer 7

I dont have a car, I dont have a house, I dont have enough money, i am sure i will die someday.

Answer 8

Paul Lutus has a take on this and I find it fits.
Interview with an Extraterrestrial

Interview with an Extraterrestrial

-- P. Lutus Message Page --

Scene: In an artificial bubble on the surface of Ganymede (one of Jupiter's moons),
an alien explorer describes his visit to Earth.

Can you give us a general picture of Earth and its inhabitants?
The planet is rather pretty, with lots of natural resources. "Fertile" isn't too strong a word, especially when compared with most places in the local system. There are lots of energy sources, easily accessed, and lots of chemical resources as well. And we think this fertility is why the Earth's inhabitants -- the "humans" -- have such distorted ideas about reality.

You mean like the silica worms on Venus, who, because they can't see through their atmosphere, have the idea that their planet is the entire universe?
No, the humans are much worse. They can see and study the entire universe, but they still think they are the center of everything, that their planet is the reason the universe exists.

(collective gasp from audience)

But only the young humans, the larvae, have these distorted ideas, right?
No, that would be true here, but on Earth even old humans have a larval view of reality. Some never mature beyond expecting a deity, or a government, or nature herself, to satisfy their craving for transformation.

What is this transformation? Don't they understand what they are?
Not in the slightest. They believe they are super-beings, or are mystically connected to a super-being, so everything is simultaneously temporary and unsatisfactory, to be someday replaced by fame, justice, immortality, or something called "true love."

Do any of them have our concept of nature as a connected whole, of which all are a part? How do their beliefs differ?
The earthlings have it exactly backward. They think nature exists for them, designed to meet their needs, not that they are part of nature, as we understand it --

(another gasp)
-- But it is much worse than that. They can't understand why nature won't meet their most trivial needs, and they are possessed by dissatisfaction. If they look at their planet's moon, it is unsatisfactory because they can't build a house on it. Everything is too hot or too cold, too big or too small. Reality is viewed solely in terms of a human's immediate needs.

How did they stay so backward for so long?
Mostly by looking in the wrong places. You may not believe this, but many of them rely on each other for structure and meaning -- they even form units, composed of a leader and followers. The leader pretends to need followers, and the followers pretend to need a leader. Naturally, the most dangerous leaders -- and followers -- are those who forget it's a game. This game used to be called "religion," now it is called "government."

Are there any regions of more advanced behavior, a place where we could safely present ourselves?
Emphatically not. In fact, there is one area of Earth that is much worse than the others -- it's called "America." The Americans have raised dissatisfaction to an art form. They rarely notice events and creatures of great beauty, and completely miss spectacular examples of nature's generosity. For example, I once monitored the brain-waves of a human observing a sunset. After a moment, he thought "If only this sunset were 10% prettier, why then I would be happy."

What causes this distorted view of reality?
Well, humans have only recently acquired intellectual skills, therefore those skills are in a dangerous, immature form. We have seen this in other places -- the Earthlings have Godlike thinking powers grafted onto animal personalities. They have the ability to destroy themselves through badly formed ideas, but no ability to curb their passions.

Their most serious problem is that they still believe in authority --

(gasps and laughter)
-- yes, I know it is hard to believe. Many species throughout the universe have successfully made the transition from animal, instinctive mental processes to true intellect, and along the way they come to recognize authority for what it is: the last vestige of animal thought and behavior. But the transition away from authority can be difficult. The humans are about halfway through this learning process -- they still believe in centralized control of individual behavior, and yet they have developed fusion weapons, as though they had any chance to control such weapons with their pack-animal political system.

Don't they have some version of science and mathematics to help them transcend their animal passions?
Most don't even know what science and mathematics are, and many of the rest think science can only be practiced by someone called a "scientist." --

(pandemonium)
-- Yes, and that is the best evidence for their primitive state. They don't recognize scientific thought as the principal way to evolve from the half-animal, half-civilized state in which they are now living. They don't understand that science is the moral property of all thinking creatures.

Well, at least they realize they are in transition between the world of animals and intelligent beings?
No, actually they think they are intelligent beings, with no supporting evidence at all. Humans study the geological record of species that have been transformed to meet new requirements, but they don't realize they are themselves in the midst of such a transformation.

Can we help them? Can we share any part of our knowledge base with them, ease them toward intelligent behavior?

No, I cannot recommend that. They would only use our tools to kill each other, and our ideas would either confuse or frighten them. I recommend that we stay out of their view, as the other advanced species have decided to do, and let them wake up by themselves, in their own good time.

Thank you for your report. Make it so. It is requested that none of our craft approach Earth, or become visible from there.

Send out this request: Stay away from Earth -- they must show evidence of civilized behavior before we can allow them to join our community in the stars.

(applause)

Answer 9

because the nature is such that the life goes like this.
if not, imagine the infinite far off your imagination. - a dark boundless universe.

Answer 10

i dont think there is a good reason for life
"life will exist where it can"
but i think its natural to want the best