2006-10-24 04:00:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Does there have to be a purpose? but if there is then you need to figure it out for yourself because no one knows. We are here for no apparent reason but if you read the Bible it will give you one possible reason as will most religions.
2006-10-24 04:03:30 · answer #1 · answered by William J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well that's just a very silly question, the purpose of your existance was not predetermined, you have to determine what that purpose will be and then work constructively towards it.
A better question is, why is the world here? When most people look at the stars they think in comparison to the vastness of the empty space that they are insignificant, but I think otherwise, I always feel vastly more significant, because in all of that space, we're the only things that make it worth existing. Space exists so that we might appreciate it.
However, both of these are still, very silly questions indeed. Think of an animal, an animal isn't granted the luxury of sapient intelligence, nor the burden of sapient intelligence. They live the entirety of their lives solely by instinct, if an animal were for a moment granted all of our intelligence and asked what they thought of the existance of the world, having been accustomed to their life so far, they would simply answer, "Well, I live in it, I suppose it's good then." So we spend our entire lives trying to sort out the reason for our existance and the animals spend their lives working towards constructive purposes, at least, what an animal finds to be a constructive purpose. Ha, so what a marvelous thing our human mind is, that we have the intellectual capacity to think on a subject for so long that we make it far more complex and far more unusable than the origional idea ever was.
You'd like to figure out your life? Then live it.
2006-10-24 11:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by thalog482 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.
I've come to two conclusions recently:
1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.
First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.
Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.
2006-10-24 12:26:00 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of the world is to see if souls will choose love light and positivity over the dark side...
2006-10-24 11:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by avava9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 1:28 clearly states what the purpose of this earth is.
2006-10-24 17:31:37 · answer #5 · answered by blogchic88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is not purpose to the world..
We are here by accident and have no purpose...
2006-10-24 11:07:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My theory is that this world is one big classroom and the subject matter is yours to choose. God is the teacher. As long as one learns as much as they can and they are good hearted people and treat people well through life, they get to graduate at the end of it all and go to Heaven!!
2006-10-24 11:11:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that through trial and error he could teach his most beloved angel Lucifer, that what he is doing is wrong, and hopefully he will come to his senses. After all that is his favorite angel, according to the bible. We are just lesser beings created so that throughout us Lucifer realize his mistakes, while he is burning in hell. Evil is not an entity of itself, rather an absence of good.
2006-10-24 11:43:32 · answer #8 · answered by Overkill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Green House Laboratory -Miserables -Guinea Pigs
2006-10-24 11:03:04 · answer #9 · answered by shaikhmohdmusa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are here like the rest to serve me and make my life better but you are falling behind so get back to work and quit fightin
2006-10-24 12:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋