What is human's purpose in life?

Question

I was thinking about that question last night and kept wondering what the answer was.

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

To find answers.
Humans will always have a curiosity to want to know where we came from.
We will always seek understanding.

Some are easily satisfied with the idea of a God..because it answers many difficult questions that they can't bear to admit they just don't know.
Instead they feel better(safer maybe?)knowing that something is up there "watching after us".
Although, what he watches is us start wars and kill innocent people...

They don't understand that people for ages have wanted to understand and that the realization should be, not that we are going to heaven or hell and thats it, but that we are the Gods.
Our minds are more powerful than we even know. We couldn't begin to comprehend the things our minds can do.

Buddhists are a wonderful example of what the mind is capable of.

Answer 3

To try to better understand the world, the ideas that are part of our reality, and live a life that you fashion (not society pressures you) that is morally and ethically right with highest principles with or without the concept or reality of a god.

The discovery of a noble purpose for yourself, the pursuit of knowledge, and connections of that knowledge with others--should make life fulfilling for some. For others, it's having kids. All in all, the purpose relates to certain projects you take on. For me, it's living an unconventional but morally viable life while pursuing the highest and noblest cacities of humankind. The architecture of knowledge and pursuit of the arts are far more purposeful for a constantly curious and unromantic person as myself.

I strongly disagree with the purpose of life being reproduction. Because we can choose, not like the lower rung animals, it is INDEED a choice not necessary part of ALL human beings. If we can choose to not partake of reproduction, it is evidence in and of itself, it isn't in the human purpose for everyone.

To give birth to an architecture of knowledge or art that qualifies as an ultimate brainchild is the closest some people will ever have to having "children". There are two kinds of "children": the product of genital stimulation (infants) or product of mental stimulation(brainchild/masterpieces).

Answer 4

which technique of existence- To be at liberty making money from time to time enables with happiness. human beings can disagree all they pick. they're utilising some variety of technologies to submit the following. They needed/needed the technologies that they likely offered. i'm certain there turned right into slightly of happiness there at the same time as they could pay for the failings that extra them happiness. Now I sound complicated. bypass ahead. Scratch your head and strengthen your eyebrow. Is money god? No. God in heaven is God to me. i imagine we worship money in a way. the way we appreciate problems with fee. If that's sensible. i imagine happiness is the objective of existence.

Answer 5

We are part of the Universe and at least in this little corner we are the Universe's self-reflective component. We are the instrument by which the Universe "knows" about itself.

Check Out Brian Swimme's book; " The Universe Is A Green Dragon"

Answer 6

Do you mean why we are in existence? That kind of question is meaningless without God.

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell

Russell was a noted 20th century mathematician, philosopher and Nobel Laureate.

There is either no purpose or it came from God but in either case, we can't invent our own. So, "to live life to the fullest" and "to grow" is utter nonsense. Sure they sound good but the fact that they sound good is why they were chosen.

And "to survive and reproduce" is entirely nonsense. Evolution is a mindless natural process incapable of giving purpose. Evolution can no more give us purpose than a cloud can give purpose to a raindrop.

But if God exists, then our purpose must be to seek Him. For He must have put our great need for purpose into our human nature to point us to seek Him.

Answer 7

Humanity's purpose in life is the same as all other animals: to survive and reproduce. I don't see that we have any greater purpose than that, despite our superior inteligence (sometimes) when compared to animals.

Answer 8

The purpose is simple... to grow.

Learning how to grow at the speed of light is a little more mysterious, but the ancient methods of being in the light are gradually coming to light.

Answer 9

Nothing, absolutely. It is plain purposeless existence.

Sage Ramana of Thiruvannamalai (South India) used to counter this question with a standard retort - 'find who is asking this question?'

Perhaps, finding out 'who this 'I' is' is the only worthy purpose.

- Venkat

Answer 10

It must be to find a purpose.