Is it an accident that you are here in this world? Are you here just to reproduce and raise kids? Do you live to work? What is your main purpose in life?
2007-11-16 02:38:29 · 10 answers · asked by Edwin J 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Our purpose is to glorify our Creator. We need to be stewart of everything here on earth for these things are not ours.
Also to love one another and promote justice.
2007-11-22 14:02:26 · answer #1 · answered by taton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.....
2007-11-16 06:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The atheist has no purpose beyond the programming inherent in himself.
Therefore, he has no independence and no free will.
If he claims he is thinking in harmony with the limitations imposed by Natural Laws and that the sum of his evolution is greater than those individual Natural Laws, then he has again violated principle 5 above.
Principle 5: Life can only develop in harmony with the inherent laws in the universe.
If life only develops in harmony with the laws then it is restricted to those laws and cannot exceed them.
Also, it can still be said that the atheist claim of independence is nothing more than the chemical reactions in his brain.
If the atheist says he has purpose not derived from or that is beyond the mere derivation of life from the original, inherent natural Laws, then....
This implies the existence of the supernatural.
If the supernatural exists, then it is certainly possible that God exists.
The atheist is denying the principles from which evolution is derived.
This would mean that evolution is not true, and/or
If the atheist acknowledges that his mind, will, hopes, desires, etc., are nothing more than the product of the natural universe, then...
He has no self-determined purpose.
He has no will other than that which is governed by the natural laws and programmed within him.
He serves nothing more than natural laws.
Therefore, the atheist has no freely chosen, self intended purpose for existence.
If there is a God, then I have purpose, since I have a will and my purpose is given to me by God.
Since I claim to have a purpose, not derived from natural Laws, it follows that I claim there is a God.
Since, to claim purpose outside the natural is to conclude that purpose is derived from something beyond the natural.
Since I determine I have a purpose and I deny the limitations of the boundaries set by Natural Laws, it is reasonable to assume that I believe in God and that there is a God.
Otherwise, we are merely bags of chemicals reacting to stimuli. I believe man is more than that.
2007-11-16 03:36:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have no intrinsic purpose. We must create our own purpose. Acknowledging this inescapable freedom to define who we are - and contemplating the potential meaninglessness of our lives as we confront the inevitability of death - can be terrifying, but only by dedicating ourselves to some purpose or ideal can we hope to have our lives transcend the mere statistical fact that we existed.
2007-11-16 02:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by Charlie149 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right here is what God reported, "guy are that they might have exhilaration". each and every thing revolves around that. yet, as a results of selfishness, greed, and disobedience of guy many cheat themselves, no longer understanding extra ideal. whilst mankind will stop thinking approximately himself and seem at others as important as himself, he will have launched into the form. the main reason we exist is by the fact we are right here to be examined whether we are able to p.c. stable over evil. If we fail, we've not have been given all of us to blame yet ourselves because of the fact we've been given freedom to act for ourselves. we've been commanded to multiply and top off the earth. This takes sacrifice and with out sacrifice you will no longer get a stable grade. God did no longer create us to worship him. we are being examined. If we adore him we are able to worship him, even nevertheless it is not God aggrandizing himself. He needs us to have exhilaration.
2016-10-16 23:18:07 · answer #5 · answered by stinnette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the earth is a big boot camp where the soul learns about life and principle through experience, perhaps as a prep for another life to come in another realm.
2007-11-16 02:43:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can choose your own reason for existence, as nietczhe and other philosophers discussed, my own definition would be you making your own reason to exist in a society that you want, a pizza boy exist cuz he delivers pizza so does the mail man and his mail, what we do is why we exist im a student and a brother, i fulfill those responsibilities that i am born with and while i grow older my purpose can be my work or more instinctively for my survival, as the priest to spread the religion he believes to be reason
2007-11-16 06:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by kahOs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the main purpose of man;s existence is to seek the best answer to this question.
2007-11-16 03:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that existence has any inherent purpose. However, my purpose is to grow in wisdom and to serve others as much as I can.
2007-11-16 02:58:40 · answer #9 · answered by Sophrosyne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't ask my main purpose. You asked about "man's" main purpose; unfortunately it does seem to be to stay alive and reproduce, endlessly and joylessly.
2007-11-16 08:53:51 · answer #10 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋