2007-08-06 12:31:01 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To reproduce !! :)
2007-08-06 12:33:10 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read a book called- " The Purpose Driven Life " by Rick Warren. It's a life changing read.
2007-08-06 12:44:34 · answer #2 · answered by The Count 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2007-08-06 12:33:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-08-06 12:32:47 · answer #4 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A real purpose of life answers the question of "why was I put on this earth" or "what am I meant to do with my life". Real purpose requires a God. Here's what atheist Bertram Russell tells us about purpose:
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (20th century philosopher, mathematician and Nobel Laureate)
So, without God there can be no real purpose to life, however, through various psychological techniques we can give ourselves the feeling/illusion of having a purpose. Answerer 10 who said, "You give your own life it's purpose", or similar answerers, really mean that you can make for yourself the illusion of having a purpose.
The primary psychological trick is as follows: Do something worthy of praise such as volunteering to mentor inner city youth. Now give yourself praise and imagine others giving you praise. Your mind will automatically connect praise with self worth and self worth with purpose and you will begin to think that mentoring inner city youth is what you were put on earth to do. Presto, the illusion of a purposeful life.
I see that a number of answerers refer to evolution, e.g. "to live", "to die", "to survive", "to reproduce", etc. But evolution is a mindless natural process just as weather, for example, is a mindless natural process. And evolution can no more grant purpose to us than a rainstorm can grant purpose to a rain drop.
I prefer to seek God and therefore real purpose even though I am not at all sure that He even exists.
2007-08-06 23:40:58 · answer #5 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's like that commercial where everyone does something nice for someone else. To pay kindness forward and to keep touching people in one way or another. You see all those people who want to get rich and when they finally do, the smart ones become philanthropists. Life is to be happy and keep reaching out, and letting others in.
2007-08-06 12:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sharon M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You give your own life it's purpose.
2007-08-06 12:34:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was grow, reproduce and die, but this is a simple life, now we have complicated life and we must look for our purpose because we don´t want reproduce and die.
2007-08-06 12:57:37 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Graham 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Love.
Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" Jesus answered him, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."This is the greatest and most important commandment. Matthew 22:36-38
2007-08-06 12:33:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no purpose to life. Whilst we all search for it, we lose sight of the beauty of life for its own sake.
2007-08-06 12:35:51 · answer #10 · answered by Bob-bob 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pleasure.
2007-08-06 12:40:25 · answer #11 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋