2007-09-26 21:43:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
That question drove me crazy five years ago trying to figure out what to do with my life and what to major in the university.
I ended up majoring in Philosophy. Now that questions doesn't bother me at all anymore. Not sure if it was because I was too over depressed through my college years or was it because I realized there are so much uncertainty over what I can really know...or maybe because I've arrived to some answer.
It seems to me nothing in this world really quite matters anymore (at least that's how it feels like) since there're so much unknowns. But one thing is quite directly important -- the feeling of content instead of emptiness (which leads to pain).
This emptiness, I came to equalize with boredom or some thinks it's loneliness. What about a "heart/mind that is lack of occupance"? Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer'd say intellectual happiness is best way to fight the pain from boredom (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/wisdom/chapter2.html ) while writer like Dale Carnegie, author of "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living", acknowledge the pain from borement, but suggest more general solution of finding something you like doing or making boring duties fun. Some Christian'd say God has made a hole in your heart in which nothing can fill it except your belief in God and have Him close to your heart. Others might say the purpose of life is love. You need to find your soul mate. Some might add to it that evolution give us the purpose of nothing but reproduction and survival anyway.
I think which ever path or paths you takes, the remedy behind is to have something that fills and attract your mind into. Intellectual pursuit, lover, hobbies, God. When you have something to go after (and also something that is fruitful, something that won't lead you to terrible consequences and something you truely bring you content consistently, continuously and sustainably). The question as to whether there is a purpose of life doesn't matters anymore... maybe because you've found it. (Have I been going in a big circle?)
2007-09-26 22:45:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people like to think that there is a purpose in life and so it is a way to endure the hardships. It is also an excuse to let other people suffer. That is their purpose
Rather I think there is no purpose. We are alive. We alive because our mothers and fathers had sex and made us. Evolution created us to have more children. That is all there is to it.
So we do we do. Cry in our cups over such a petty life. Maybe it is up to us to define our own lives. We can find a purpose worth having. Marking time until we die is not one of them (watching tv, shopping etc is just marking time, go kill yourself now if you have no value).
Because the purpose is in us and not coming from outside we have to work it out for ourselves.
2007-09-26 21:55:04 · answer #2 · answered by flingebunt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our human nature demands that our life is worthy of being lived. If we don't have real purpose, we'll invent something that keeps us feeling good about ourselves, e.g. "I'm going to leave the world a better place...", or at least keeps us busy so we won't think about not having a real purpose for living.
2007-09-26 22:27:17 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every one does have a purpose or else we wouldnt be here but I also think that there are some people whose purpose is to actually take up space and air!
2007-09-26 22:03:52 · answer #4 · answered by jessigoo 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has a purpose in life. When you have fullfilled that purpose...your physical body dies. Your soul has to learn certain lessons in each life.
2007-09-26 21:46:23 · answer #5 · answered by CinSue 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I have a purposed in Life...
To live and serve to Christ sake....
2007-09-26 22:23:28 · answer #6 · answered by sweetie29 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think God's sole objective for becoming us grow to be to sooner or later use suggested thumper to scold atheists for starring questions here. specific, God could have used suggested thumper to keep some little females existence yet whats up, who atheists action picture star is a lot extra significant. of course, all this presupposes 2 issues: a million) there's a God. 2) regardless of being all-powerful, he desires human beings to do his paintings for him.
2016-10-20 02:58:55 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My purpose is redemption, I do care about that. I would die for it.
2007-09-27 00:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by angel_speak2000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both.
2007-09-26 21:50:25 · answer #9 · answered by cookie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Live and let live.
2007-09-27 02:03:35 · answer #10 · answered by joe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋