Is our PURPOSE IN LIFE more important than we are as individuals........?

Answer 1

Purpose in life is an individual thing, and individual choice. You can only know your own purpose in life when you find it. If you allow others to determine your purpose in life, then you are denying your individuality, and your life given freedom to choose. Without freedom to choose, you have no individuality. So your question to yourself might be, "Is it more important to assert and indulge my freedom to choose my purpose and destiny in life, or have it chosen for me and live in bondage and denial of myself?"

Answer 2

If you were to establish that the purpose of human existence is a matter of the collective or group, rather than the individual, then this purpose would be, in your estimation, more important than the individual. However, this kind of thinking gave rise to two of the most brutal and genocidal ideologies of the 20th century-- marxism and fascism. I think that you are more apt to find a solution to your inquiry if you re-phrase your question: Is there a purpose for human nature, and how is this purpose important for the individual and the society?

Answer 3

Absolutely not!
In fact, to be an individual is our purpose in life.

Answer 4

My purpose IS my life and who I am.

Answer 5

Humans, especially in America are missing out on the big picture of what we are really on this Earth for. The main reason I say that people in America are missing out on the big picture is because everywhere you look people are saying be you, believe in yourself, etc. but it all boils down to the fact that we're all here because God is putting us all to a test. A test to see if we're worthy of his kingdom, a test to see if we're good workers, our lives aren't meaningless whatsoever because it depends on how you live your life, what you believe in, what you stand for, and what causes you fight for.
We fight to stay alive for a couple of reasons: we believe or think that there is nothing greater than living life, we believe or think that we have to live for our family, friends, significant other, or even our kids we believe or think that we're afraid of the afterlife, of the unknown; of all of these things simply because we're just plain afraid.
We fight to earn things because we think and believe that we can't survive without them, we think and believe that things bring us joy & happiness, we think and believe that life wants us to feel like we're doing something right & that we deserve some sort of credit.
We fight for whatever reason because that's the laws of cause & effect, the laws of God, and the laws of the Universe.
I believe that all humans have the right to be happy and to be able to live for whatever reason they may choose, I can't judge the reason, you can't judge or anyone else and we certainly can't make the decision for these people no matter if we think it's meaningless or not.
The method to all of this is very simple. Like I said before, life is God's way of testing the humans for their afterlife because too many people believe that when we die there won't be anything to worry about except for hell and heaven but that's not true.
We've all lived a life for no matter how long just to prepare for a life after death where there is something far better than this world could offer us. The method to all this madness is in what I said up above, so just read between the lines." Okay, that's what I replied but here's what I meant because some of what I said was pretty self-explanatory but some of it wasn't.
I don't think that a human's life is meaningless in no way possible for the simple fact that unlike animals, humans have the power to make a tremendous difference in this world. We can help save this world from whatever is destroying it or is a threat. We, humans are here to take care of the animals, take care of the nature around us, and to live the way God asked us to, just the way he asked us to live.
I believe that when a person lives their life right according to their beliefs and the way God has asked them to live, humans would be able to survive through anything because he lived the way he instructs us to.
The earth is hell; look at all the problems which we endure on a daily basis including war, material possessions, crisis, etc. I believe that God sent us back here to live another life from which he’d be pleased with. I believe that all humans have been lived here before, died, their lives were examined by God & his elite team of angels, and God decided if they should come back and live again to learn from before even though we don’t remember our old lives.
I believe that God has a different (a different planet; that’s why there’s no life there) place ready for the people who have lived exactly the way he asked & has instructed them to do so. Humans will have different bodies that are secured for this new environment.
God created humans in his image and we are all God in a way because we hold a characteristic that he, himself holds in expressing himself.

Answer 6

To many, sometimes it can be! But how can anyone know exactly what that is until after their life is over with?