Why we are here? what is the purpose of human life?

Question

I believe we are here for goal seeking. Many have been achieved. Many more are on the horizon waiting for us.

Answer 1

The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.
Popular beliefs
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:

Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means
...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
...to seek and find beauty
...to kill or be killed
...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.

Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...to expand one's perception of the world
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to discover who you are
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced

Philosophical
...to give life meaning
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to know the meaning of life
...to achieve self-actualisation
...all possible meanings have some validity
...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
...to die
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )
...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"

Other
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
...to make conformists' lives miserable
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete) -

Answer 2

If you're asking why we are here on earth, then there is no meaning to your question unless there is a God. Only God could have placed us here with a mission. Evolution is a mindless natural process that can't give purpose.

If you're asking what can we do so that we don't think about not having a purpose, then there are a number of psychological techniques we can use. For example, do something praiseworthy then accept the praise, either real or imaged, as evidence of living for a purpose. You say you are here for goal seeking - that sounds praiseworthy. Keep it up. Another technique is to keep focused on positive but trivial things.

Answer 3

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 4

which ability of existence- To be happy making a living each so often facilitates with happiness. human beings can disagree all they choose. they're using some variety of technologies to post right here. They needed/mandatory the technologies that they possibly offered. i'm helpful there become slightly of happiness there whilst they could pay for the flaws that delivered them happiness. Now I sound confusing. circulate forward. Scratch your head and carry your eyebrow. Is funds god? No. God in heaven is God to me. i think of we worship earnings a manner. the way we understand problems with fee. If this is sensible. i think of happiness is the purpose of existence.

Answer 5

Hi!

After much self introspection I have come to the conclusion that we, as human beings, give ourselves far too much importance.

1. We are not indispensable

2. Life does continue after and without us

3.THE JOURNEY IS IMPORTANT.....BIRTH AND DEATH IS CERTAIN, NOTHING ELSE IS.

4.During the course of this journey we encounter hundreds of people....some who pass us by , others who touch us in ways that are difficult to explain.
There are soulmates out there....but you make a connection on;y if you are blessed

5. But what is certain is that each of these encounters help us evolve as human beings-----if we adopt a positive attitude we learn from our worst mistakes and emerge as better human beings.

6. if we wallow in self pity we are bound to be unhappy.

7.In the final analysis what is really important is that afteryou are gone, people remember you as a kind, good human being.
Nothing else realy matters!

cheers n chin up:)

Answer 6

We are here because we have not yet persuded the purpose of Human Life. The purpose is to reach and merge in GOD or supernatural power and not to born again in this vicious circle of birth and death.

Answer 7

"there was a space granted unto man in which he might repent...this life became a probationary state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which is after the resurrection of the dead." Alma 12:24

Answer 8

The central purpose of each life should be to dilute the misery in the world.

Karl Menninger

Answer 9

as one hand washes the other.. so must one human help the other...

coz hands that help are holier than the lips that pray...

u can also have the proof of this... just find a very poor person... and give him all the money u have in your pocket at that time... the feeling of fulfilment you will have at that time is incomparable... thats when u will feel that u have justified ur being...

Answer 10

One thing you got to understand once you take birth in this world you tend to be attached to it ....so many relationships,you get attached to the worldy things,like drinks enjoying etc.....the more you get attached the more is your miseries ..... the purpose of humanlife is to seek salvation and to help our fellow human beings in the same

Answer 11

We are here because all of our ancestors survived long enough to successfully reproduce, which eventually lead to our birth.

Now that we are here, we can do whatever we want within our power. We set our own goals.