What is the purpose of life? To Live and then Die?

Question

What the hell is the purpose of life. if all we do is live to die at the end why do we do anything in between.. what the hell does it matter what we do with are lifes because were just going to die in the end so does it really matter what we do inbetween anyways?

Answer 1

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 2

I guess it depends on your beliefs. I'm not religious, I think when we die there will be nothing. So in my view the purpose of life is simply living. It doesn't matter how, because in the end we'll just die. Sometimes I think it seems like amusement. Sometimes I think it's vain, but I learned to just accept what's coming. And the whole "done no wrong/just dealt bad choices"? Eh. I think that just happens based on cause and effect. People make choices, you make choices, doesn't mean either of you will make the right one. Anyways, I hope someone gives you a better answer than mine. It's not very good.... :)

Answer 3

If one thought there was no purpose of life, one is already as good as dead... for, in that case the life is indeed not worth it.

Hence everyone who wants to live (even as knowing death must come one day), certainly has some purpose in mind... it could be simply to enjoy or complicatedly to help others enjoy or both or whatever. There is no issue whatever be the purpose one chooses... the trouble is that we are not able to decide once for all and stick to it... we keep drifting from one purpose to another..... and it is this impermanence of our purpose that really bothers us and makes us wonder what after all is the purpose of it all. Once we accept that purpose of life is no different from everything else in this universe in the sense that nothing is for ever, we would be reasonably at peace with life and living with purpose which turns out to be as dynamic as the life itself is.

Does all this lead to any central purpose of life as such irrespective of whose life it is? I am not sure either way, but I really do not care, because that would be a design I may be bound by, but not one I need to know or nurture consciously. He whoever may have designed it that way, if at all, would in any case take care of it as necessary, quite irrespective of me!

Answer 4

Our human nature demands that our lives have worth and we are worthless if we have no purpose. But purpose requires a Creator.

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (20th century philosopher and mathematician)

We must have something and without God, we'll invent something that makes us feel good, e.g. "I think the purpose of life is to have fun and help someone along the way. " So if we reject God, then we're really just searching for things that give us good feelings.

But if we think that there may be a God, then it makes sense to seek Him because if we were created, then it is likely that He put our need for purpose into our minds in order to get us to seek Him.

So seek God or seek meaningless feelings. Those are the two choices.

Answer 5

You don't die. Your body dies, but your spirit lives on. What you attain in this life goes with you into the next phase of your life. You are what matters in this life and living a good life will aid you in the post-mortal existence.

Answer 6

i think the purpose of life is to do something good you know like fallow your dreams and don't let any one tell you that you can't do this or that, but yea i think that in life you need a goal to reach , and also you can have fun i mean just forget how you look at life because the way you look at it now bad way of looking at life and after death if you believe in god then you go to heaven

Answer 7

Mankind has contemplated this question since the beginning of time, and ultimately, each of us must answer this question for ourselves. Yes, we are born at the beginning and die at the end. It is the between...life, and what we do with it...that is most important to me.

Answer 8

I have never really thought of life that way. I think the purpose of life is to have fun and help someone along the way. Thats it.

Answer 9

Check out a book called 'The Celestial Prophecies' it talks about life, death etc.

That's the first series & there's another book I forget the title to that is the second part.

Answer 10

"life" is only a word that explains the complex nature of our brain that has managed to connect a lot of different impulsess coming in and interpreting them in a way that makes sense to us and nothing else.
all living things are just a bunch of cells grouped together moving around in a pre-determined way.