What exactly is the "purpose" of living and then dying..it all seems kinda stupid too me..!?

Question

I already did "trinity" and it just so happens that my mothers a professor of philosophy ..=Z

Oh, and by the way I'm not "emo" =S

I just looked and saw life how I "think" it is..and I think it's stupid!
I mean we live and then we die! what's so great about that..?

Answer 1

I'm afraid there is no purpose to all this.
What would you answer a stone who'd ask the same question ?
The purpose of a stone is to be a stone.

Being human meens to be able to ask your question. But the question itself doesn't give extra added purpose. Only the answer, maybe. And if you know the answer, you probably arent human anymore.

Answer 2

WoW !

Me? I am a scientist , or was. I don't see that Tom or Dick's belief need have anything to do with Harry (or Harriet). I just feel that I want to have contributed. When I die (and at 63 it is kinda getting nearer, oops) I want to feel that I have helped people and made things better for them and left some love swilling around in the human pool.

As for being materialistic, well I am. I believe in what I see and have evidence for. The strange thing is that when I am quite alone . . . . . . I am not. Jung once said on a TV programme that organisms do not spend their energies wastefully. It's true. A bacterium only evolves antibiotic resistance if it needs to or else it dies. So why do we spend so much time having spiritual thoughts if it's no use? It's a very wasteful thing. Jung felt there had to be a purpose behind belief.

The world is far more obscure than most people realise. Science is wonderful but we haven't even got close yet and maybe we never will. Don't trust tooooo much in what you see. We DO NOT know everything. In the end go with your own instincts. If you think that dying is too horrible and such pointlessness is obscene to contemplate you may be right.

And maybe whatever happens isn't quite what we think. I certainly think that is true and 'no', I don't believe in the worst, but what's going on I don't know. We live in a wonderful, maybe unknowable, world. Have a bit of faith, issnotso foolish.

Answer 3

It is superior to the thought of having never even existed I think. I've been around a while and am closer to leaving than to arriving. I often think about people in my life, some I will never contact again. Strangers who helped me along the road when my car broke down. People who gave me a lift when I was a 19 year old soldier hitchiking. Teachers who influenced my life and nieghbors who contributed to my social interaction and personality developement. I have no idea how many others lives I have touched in ways I will never know but I remember those who touched mine and they are many. I think perhaps, I am here because they were and I hope some out there think of me in the same way. I know not what more I could ask.

Answer 4

You have to understand purpose first.
So read the ancients on teleology.

Then come to understand that purpose is for an end.
Why characterize 'life' as 'for' anything at all? Aren't we often characterized as ends-in-ourselves?

Would that end be death.. then you just gave one pessimistic interpretation of 'life' -- one that we experience as scientists dissecting the arch of someone's biographical stamp.

But that's not necessarily understanding the end of a human charitably. If you're sympathetic to Aristotle then the goal is attainment of highest virtue, according to an essence.

To achieve great beauty -- this is our aim. Death just happens, and sustaining life an afterthought to our passion and art.

The purpose of life is to serve our creative caprice.
We live on top of life-- life rendered as a biological fact is, as you say, some brute stupid fact-- but that doesn't make our dynamic experience (provided by life) the same.

Answer 5

Theirs a purpose for everyone...some people just get off of the path to their purpose and end up dying without knowing they purpose in life

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Answer 7

You don't just die and it's over with. You will go to heaven if you have been saved or hell if you have not been saved. While you are here on earth living is when you have time to get saved. After you die your fate is sealed and there's no more time to be saved. Your "purpose" is to get saved and then spread God's word to others so they might get saved.

Answer 8

My friend, we are here for exactly what the bible says that we are here for. We are born into this world in sin and are to be companions of our God who will never forsake you. You have the choice of whether or not to accept that Jesus Christ is the son of God while you are here. If you do accept him, you may prosper in the wonderful kingdom of heaven for all eternity. If not you will suffer the horror of an eternity burning in the lake of fire. You must be a companion of our one and only savior Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

When you were "born" you had to "die" to the life of the womb in order to be born to this physical life.

To die is a necessary process for going form one form of living to another "higher" form of living.

The "purpose" of living is to acquire "virtues" and to put them in the service of mankind.

Answer 10

Carl Sagan said: If you want your life to have significance, do something significant. My purposes: to pass on my genes to the next generation (done that), and to increase the world's store of knowledge (working on that).