2007-10-26 10:41:40 · 14 answers · asked by otter2 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Life is "to be in existence". What is the purpose of our being in existence? There is no purpose of life unless God exists:
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell
Purpose implies a plan, a design, an intelligence and that can only be God.
Without God we struggle to find something to do that we think worthy of living. But without God, nothing has worth.
But if God exists, His purpose for us must be for us to seek Him.
2007-10-26 22:41:20 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Again, that's an easy one. The purpose of life is to make things live.
2007-10-26 11:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by Plato 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have thought about this issue a lot, as you will see as you continue to read my very long novel of an answer! firstly I agree with above but then that poses another Question. If the meaning of life is the continuation of our bread then for what purpose is this necsessary? I believe that the earth is a cell. One cell, that is a part of something vast as is every cell that exist ON earth, Trees, Water, Our bodies, Blood, Air, etc, everything. Now imagine the earth is A cell that exist with other cells to make up a body. The earth is just one part of it and along with the other planets in our galaxy they form say a lung, somethinks lung. Now think about cancer! Cancer is the effect of a cell that mutates, deforms, and then destroys that cell. It then infects another cell and does the same thing over and over again. No other life form on earth has evolved the knowledge or power to destroy the earth except us, humans. I think, in a very morbid way, that we are the cancer of the earth. we cannot live on the earth now without destroying it, so, we are trying to invade other planets (cells) in our galaxy to inhabit, the same way cancer does. Our deformity is our intelligence. At some point we inhabited the earth in sync with everything else until we "deformed" gained intelligence. If everything gets smaller, as we know it to do, and everything gets bigger, as we know it to do, and perception, as we know, is largely dependant on size, we are part of something so vast we cannot even comprehend its existence, just as an ant has no perception of ours. We will continue to kill the earth and then move on to inhabit some other planet and another and another. We exist at the cost of the earth and for the purpose of the destruction of it. I know it probably sounds like absolute B*ll*cks. Let me know your if you think I'm insane or if this sounds even remotly plausable
2007-10-26 11:15:27 · answer #3 · answered by mayea b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of life is the continuation of the species by asexual or sexual reproduction. The hell with everything else.
2007-10-26 10:45:15 · answer #4 · answered by fenx 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To create
2007-10-26 11:09:46 · answer #5 · answered by QuantumJourney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The magazine?
2007-10-26 10:50:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love, Peace, and doing what you feel like doing.
a more scientific approach would be
reproduction and death
2007-10-26 10:55:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is one needed?
2007-10-26 11:00:19 · answer #8 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get wasted.
2007-10-26 12:12:32 · answer #9 · answered by James Bond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to discover what you would die for and to know when to end it
2007-10-26 10:55:03 · answer #10 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋