Whats the point of human existence?

Answer 1

There can be no point unless God exists. Point and meaning and purpose all refer to an intelligent plan or design. Nature by itself doesn't give purpose.

If God exists, everything changes. The point of our existence must be to seek the only One who can give our lives a point.

We want to be independent from God yet still have meaning for our lives and that is not possible.

Answer 2

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 3

The problem is the time frame you currently find your self stuck in. Also, the inability to see forward beyond this time frame. Humans are stuck on this little mud ball of a planet, slowly developing the skills, technology, assets, and method of operations, we will need as a race further down the time line. We, as a race, are good at fighting each other, slaughtering each other, and developing new tools, and ingenious methods for conducting warfare. We scream, cry, holler, and complain about how much we hate war, but we keep on doing it. There is a reason. This is the key to the point of human existence. Our problem is not that we hate war, we just hate going to war with each other. Eventually, in some future time, humans will reach the stars. We'll encounter different intelligent races, and, go to war with them! What a glorious time that will be, when we can all come together, all the different human races, colors, sexes, and creeds, all united in one single purpose...to beat the hell out of someone else! Once we have achieved galactic conquest, our far future decedents will be thankful we (their ancient ancestors), stuck it out, toughed it out, kept making babies & newer bombs. All our wars and fighting will be viewed as "intramural practice games". Now, at that point, maybe some of them will sit around and ask, "whats the point?". That's because they won't be able to see further down the time line towards humans invading another galaxy, then another, and another, and eventually taking over this whole universe. Then we move on toward conquering parallel universes. Once we own it "all", we'll have the resources needed to figure out how to survive beyond the opposite of the big bang, the "big crunch". After that, who knows what we'll do next. Won't matter to you, you have no plans to help contribute to mankind's domination of all of existence, and conquest of the very fabric of space and time. Sounds like you don't even plan on attempting to see if your DNA will still even be in the gene pool. Quitter

Answer 4

Well, it depends if you want a real answer or not.
To some it's just while there here,existing every moment wondering why?
To others(christians,myself) we believe in God the creator of
the Heavens and the earth. We believe our human existence
is important and the first thing is to worship God! He made us
and created us! Why is it so hard for people to believe?
Wouldn't you have a better chance with God than without?
What are people's other choices?
Anyway that's what I believe. I also believe we can all be
connected through what we believe, but some refuse it!

Answer 5

There's a whole Universe out there and we're the ones who are going to learn about it, learn about the meaning of existence.

Answer 6

Nothing just an infinite existence

Answer 7

There is none. Unless you consider the individual. We all find different reasons for existence.

Answer 8

in my opinion, earth is a SCHOOL. we just haven't graduated yet. lately, it seems, we are getting worse grades than ever, but i digress. we are here to learn as much as we can about being good natured, creative, and powerful spirits so that we are ready to enter the galaxy as true cosmic entities when we die
we are all students, as well as teachers

Answer 9

To dominate the world, to perpetuate our species. That's the point of our, us homo sapiens, existence.

Answer 10

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