What is our purpose in life????

Answer 1

There is no grand universal purpose to life. The whole Earth could blow up today and it wouldn't affect the universe much. Things blow up in it all the time.

The idea of "purpose" only matters at a personal level. It is related to what you value. If something has value to you, it has purpose to you.

The only purpose to your life is that which you create for it. What you choose to do with your life depends on what you value in it. And nobody can really define what you value for you. That is up to you to decide.

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

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose", is what Robin Sharma says in his best-seller "The Monk who Sold His Ferrari". Our purpose is to attain Nirvana, which is that state of existence, where everything is possible, and everything is wonderful. To be good to everyone, gain vastg reserves of knowledge, be happy, achieve something, reduce the grievances of others around, make the world a better place are all our purposes in life, which make life worth while. Without a purpose, life is meaningless.

Answer 4

The purpose of life? hmmm ...on the surface it would seem that survival, procreation, recreation is. I gather however that you are delving beneath the obvious tangible answer to address what is the purpose to sublime human self-consciousness.

To realize to our fullest capability that each individual mind is a drop of perspective, clamoring mutely in an ocean of raging spirit, to proclaim the game of life worth living.

Only to recognize that all other minds are similarly afflicted with the same enforced silence of total isolation. And yet to put aside that desolate despair of individuality without losing the humble possibility of a Satori connecting us to nature and life itself.

Ultimately, to discover and embrace as much of what is our personal bent and best during our brief admittance into the game of life, that the mystery of life, has afforded us. Accepting the embrace that life Is a game, that our season Will end when we slip from embrace, to be replaced by new players with the fresh spirit necessary to carry on with life.

Answer 5

That question no one really has the answer to. God has a plan and a purpose for all of us. No one can tell you what it is. Just live your life happily with God as your guide and in your heart. Do what is right and what you believe in.

Answer 6

Over 20 years ago I made a dedication to Jehovah and symbolize that dedication by water baptism. my goal is to continue to serve my God Jehovah with a complete heart, to do the work in which his Son Jesus Christ fortold for our day.

"This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." Matt 24:14

Answer 7

God’s word tells us that He is self-existing and ever-existing. In eternity past God was there. At a certain point he made a decision to create man. God’s desire was to have this man express Him in His image and represent Him with His authority earth (Gen 1:26-28) The bible tell us in the very first page of Genesis that God’s creation of man was different from His creation of all other things. He created man in His own image. Let us illustrate this matter by using a glove. A person’s hand cannot fit into a handkerchief because it does not have the image or form of the hand. Because the glove is in the image, the likeness, and the form of a hand, it is able to contain the hand. A glove is made in the form of a hand for the purpose of containing the hand. In the same way, the human life was created according to the image of God so that God could dispense Himself as the divine life into the human life. Man was created not only to express God but also to be God’s representative authority. The unique way for man to express God and represent God is to receive God as his life that man may become a counterpart of God. Man was created with the capacity to receive and contain God’s divine life. All of man’s human virtues, such as love, honor, and goodness, were created by God so that man may have God’s live and live out the divine attributes

Answer 8

To be good to all and help the poor and downtrodden.If you start doing this you will realize the purpose of your life !!

Answer 9

There is only one purpose and that is to serve and to please God.

There is only one way to do that, it is to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit guides in what to do from there.

Isn't it simple? Satan tries to make us think life is a mystery, it's just not.

Answer 10

The conclusion of the matter , everything being heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments for this is the whole obligation of man
Ecc12:13