What is the purpose of life?

Answer 1

~A movie by Monty Python.


The mag gave Norman Rockwell an easy outlet for his pictures.

Answer 2

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.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

Amazing, no one has given, "42," as an answer. This site might have promise.

The purpose of life is to become awakened to genuine love. I don't mean romantic love but love of all the world, the rich, the poor, the strong, the week, the black, the white, the brown. It is so the grand ultimate soul can awaken to the beauty and glory of love.

Answer 4

Why are we here? What's life all about?
Is God really real, or is there some doubt?
Well, tonight, we're going to sort it all out,
For, tonight, it's 'The Meaning of Life'.

What's the point of all this hoax?
Is it the chicken and the egg time? Are we just yolks?
Or, perhaps, we're just one of God's little jokes.
Well, ça c'est 'The Meaning of Life'.

Is life just a game where we make up the rules
While we're searching for something to say,
Or are we just simply spiralling coils
Of self-replicating DN-- nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay.

What is life? What is our fate?
Is there a Heaven and Hell? Do we reincarnate?
Is mankind evolving, or is it too late?
Well, tonight, here's 'The Meaning of Life'.

For millions, this 'life' is a sad vale of tears,
Sitting 'round with really nothing to say
While the scientists say we're just simply spiralling coils
Of self-replicating DN-- nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay.

So, just why-- why are we here,
And just what-- what-- what-- what do we fear?
Well, ce soir, for a change, it will all be made clear,
For this is 'The Meaning of Life'. C'est le sens de la vie.
This is 'The Meaning of Life'.

Answer 5

Life is the sentence we are condemned to serve before we are allowed to die.

Or, if you insist upon optimism, the purpose of life is to stay alive as long as you want to.

P.S. to Jamie, I'm glad you didn't need to say more because what you said made me want to puke, or pull my hair out, but given those choices, I'd rather puke.

Answer 6

All of us have the instinct to survive.
Why is the question.
I dont think anyone will ever know what the purpose of life is.
The mystery is what keeps it exciting.

Answer 7

Find your purpose.

Answer 8

existence precedes essence- sartre
there is no probable purpose to life only that you must create your own purpose

Answer 9

We choose our own purposes - thereby affirming the true purpose: to choose.

For we choose to live or die, we choose what to believe, we choose what to eat, etc. We choose Best Answers :D.

Answer 10

What is the Purpose of life?........Live and Let live.....