What is the purpose of living?

Answer 1

To fulfill your conception. You can make some wonderful of it or something disastrous - the decision is yours alone.

Answer 2

You are actually asking two different questions:

1. What is the purpose of life?
2. What is the meaning of life?

By way of example -- if I hold up an empty water balloon and ask you what it's purpose is, the most basic answer is 'water transportation via aerial mode.' That's all the purpose is -- it is a reason for existing. If it is sitting on a shelf in a store, it has that purpose, if it's in my hand filled and ready to go, it has that purpose.

Meaning, however, is something that is ascribed to an object. I fill such a balloon with water so that I can tag my mother during the next family reunion summer-fun party. That is now its meaning -- joy and playfulness. It did not have that meaning on the store shelf. There, at the store, its meaning was profit -- the owner of the store hoped someone would buy it and thus the owner would make profit off it.

So to go back to your questions -- what is the purpose of life? It has none. To have a purpose means that an intelligent being must have created it. Purpose is an intended direction, a best-suited direction, and life has no creator nor an intended direction. Life is inherantly purposeless.

What is the meaning of life? Because we are self-aware, even in acknowledging the purposelessness of life, we can ascribe a meaning to it. For many people, this meaning is little more than that they hope to live day by day. Some people make religion their meaning, others knowledge, others intentionally make hate or cruelty their meaning -- no one said all meaning has to be good. It just gives us a reason to wake up in the morning and defy our purposelessness.

Answer 3

None...do you really want to make living a form of work?

Life is play. Play has no purpose. Ask a child - they play just to have fun.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 4

Our purpose is served according to the design of Our Creator. Those who don't live in His service will cease to exist.

Answer 5

I have no idea. No one knows exactly what the ultimate purpose is or if there even is one.

I know that through natural selection and evolution species adapt to best survive in their environment. Perhaps it is just about survival.

Answer 6

To achieve success in our life after death. So, worshipping the one and only true God (Allah), doing good deeds, abstaining from sinful actions, promoting peace, etc....this is the purpose of living. To do good in this test.

Answer 7

To receive the free gift of grace, given to us by God. That gift is the punishment for all our sins, througth the propitiation Jesus suffered, and died on the cross for. But just like Jesus, we have new life in him. For on the the 3rd day of him being died, & buried in the tomb, Christ rose again. We who are called by his named are chosen, bought with a price @ calvary. There is a reason we are hear, that is to recieve that gift of grace, then to tell others of the wondorous gift God gave to them as well. This is our mission. Have faith, and believe. May you find the one who has been waiting for you.

Answer 8

In the quran it says ..."do u think we have u created u for no reason and that u wont come back to us"....which means that there is a reason why we were created...and thats to worship God and follow His commands ...God created us so we can worship Him alone and this life is just a test...a test to see who will follow Gods commands and who will go astray. so try to succeed in this test so u will be of the winners in the Hereafter InshaAllah

Answer 9

To be obedient to Pat Robinson or Jerry Falwell.

Answer 10

Humans are animals. And like all animals, our only point of existence is to live long enough to procreate and perpetuate the species. So in a word: sex.