2007-12-05 23:25:39 · 14 answers · asked by Constantine 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe the only purpose in life is in what you personally make of it. Maybe all we need to do is not do anything to anyone that we don't want them to do to us. Maybe we should live our short mortal lives the best way we can, just because it's the only certain thing we know. More than that is when you enter the realm of pure faith, myth, and superstition. Maybe we should do good while we live, not because we seek a reward in the "afterlife" but because it's absolutely right, just, ethical, and moral. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
2007-12-05 23:45:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That question stems from our human need for worth. We talk about purpose because we know that things that have no purpose have no worth. Having a worthless existence is very serious business:
"There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that." (Albert Camus)
If God exists, then He must have put our great need for worth/purpose into our human nature in order to point us to seek Him. So right there is our purpose; to seek our Creator.
If we reject God, we also reject purpose and meaning and worth. In that case, we have to invent something to do (e.g. "leave the world a better place") and then tell ourselves that our invention is our purpose. In other words, we deceive ourselves that we can invent why we were put on earth.
2007-12-06 22:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always tell people that the meaning of life is for us to search for the meaning of life. Once we figure it all out, it will be such a tremendous revelation that there will be no need to live anymore and the Universe will explode. And then it will expand and time will start over again. It is super complicated.
2007-12-05 23:36:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You got to ponder on the Universe...
Ponder on your body...
Ponder on GOD's various creations...
Does it NOT need a Creator?
Notice 'a' Creator... Because if it were 2 they would have definitely disagreed on something and such a disagreement will mean DEATH for all Creation... As they would fight and destroy things...
So what do you think about 3,4,5... 1000s Creators??? Is is feasible???
NO Organization can survive on 2 Final Authorities... The ENTIRE UNIVERSE surviving on 3, 1000s such so-called GODs???
Therefore, your heart will come to the conclusion that there is ONLY ONE GOD...
Can the CREATOR be similar to HIS Creation???
If we ascribe him human features, why cant HE be like a Dog or a rat???
Therefore, we have to accept that the CREATOR is NOT like HIS creation...
What does this CREATOR want from us???
Of course, the CREATOR wants us to 100% submit ourselves to HIS command...
Why???
If you dont follow the instructions of the designer of your TV, you will misuse it and spoil it...
THis CREATOR has the right to demand us to accept what HE asks us to do and what not to...
So follow HIS instruction manual which HE sent throughout the ages to guide mankind...
HE sent this message to Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jesus Christ, Moses (Peace Be Upon Them All)....
Each time HE sent a message, it was for a limited time and ONLY for those people... Till he sent the Last and Final Message that CONFIRMED the Authenticity of all the previous revelations and laid the foundation of moral, ethical, spiritual society...
The call to accept self-responsibility of your sins and be accountable for that...
The call towards REAL salvation...
The Last and Final Message of GOD...
The Holy Quran - 100% compatible with Modern Established Scientific facts...
http://www.harunyahya.com/miracles_of_the_quran_01.php
2007-12-06 00:28:57 · answer #4 · answered by flameslivewire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life appears complicated because we do not try to understand it. Once you try you will easily find that life is one
time gift of the Creator. He sent us down so that we may find
the way back to Him.
He made us because He wanted to introduce Himself to us.
Purpose of our life is to worship Him, so that He could bless
us with an eternal life, in the company of His near and dear
ones.
Realising God's love for us, we must love the mankind so that
we could show our gratefulness to HIm
Javed Kaleem
2007-12-06 00:18:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cool down.Life is simple but we make it complicated,we want a lot of wrong things,like money,fame,comfort......to fulfill our greed,jealousy and hatred.Not knowing that what we need is simple.A small bowl of rice,two vegetables and pain water.If we can lead a simple life.What else do you need.Can you eat the same dishes for weeks.To you may be boring but not till you understand what is life all about.Simple and away from greed,jealosy and hatred.
2007-12-06 00:02:42 · answer #6 · answered by Jason Koh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is as simple and straightforward or as complicated as YOU make it.
No god made us.
There is no purpose to life. We just want to survive, eat, drink, sleep, poo, pee and make babies.
I have an extra purpose, making sure that cable TV doesn't get any better. Am I succeeding?
What do you have to do with YOUR life? Is up to you. There is no destiny, no master plan. You're on your own.
2007-12-05 23:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Our human life is not so hot because that is the way it is supposed to be... Read the story of the PRODIGAL SON. That son had to get disgusted with his earthly life before he decided to make those steps back to his heavenly Father.
This resource explains the whole thing and answers all three of your questions.
2007-12-05 23:35:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wonder how a worm would do if his heart had 3 blockage in his arteries.It's so complicated.Don't worry God will take care of him.God create us to served him in this life.The rest of it,read the Quran.The answers are there.
2007-12-06 00:06:38 · answer #9 · answered by adam a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“till you assume a God, the question of existence’s objective is incomprehensible.” –Bertrand Russell Russell replace into an staggering mathematician, reality seeker and Nobel laureate. He replace into additionally an atheist yet he needless to say understood that without God, our lives have no objective and no meaning in any know. If we reject God, we ought to continuously handle the undeniable fact that we've a meaningless existence so we invent reasons-for-residing and then pretend that our innovations are why we've been positioned right here in the international. In that way, we are in a position to a minimum of get a feeling that we've a objective for existence. that's a suicide prevention mechanism. those people will cite babies, a companion, a profession or a pastime as a reason for residing. yet babies strengthen up and go away, spouses die or divorce, we retire from careers and pastimes at last bore us. they combat to discover alternative reasons for residing. If we don't reject God, then it form of feels undeniable to me that He ought to have positioned our extreme choose for objective into our human nature to induce us to seek for Him. So our first objective ought to be to seek for Him. in seek of God ends up in the two God and meaning. people who reject God are constantly in seek of strategies to get by using existence till they could die. people who seek for God seek for the only thank you to get by using dying unto existence.
2016-10-19 09:24:53 · answer #10 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋