Question for Atheists?

Question

What is the purpose of life? We once were nothing. Suddenly we realized we are little kids in this life. Do you think if we died, it would feel the same as when we were not born?

What life worth? I heard people say “you have one life, don’t waste it. Enjoy it as much as you can” I think the price of enjoyment/ happiness is really high. I know many wealthy people who are not happy. & they have to do a lot to protect themselves & their wealth. It’s the same with people in power. In the end we’ll die & million years from now the whole pleasure we ever got from this life would worth less than a penny. What do you think?

Answer 1

The purpose of life is to live it. Period. I don't see why that's so hard to understand. To me, the idea that this life is just some kind of "test" for an "afterlife" is much more incomprehensible. It seems to have evolved from a fundamental dissatisfaction with life on the part of certain moral weaklings.

It's true that on the scale of millions of years, none of our achievements is worth anything. But humans only live a hundred years at most. "Values" are always relative to conditions. It's hardly surprising that any meaning we assign to our lives dissolves when we consider "the grand scheme of things."

Answer 2

The point of enjoying life isn't to enjoy the *material* things...it's to enjoy LIFE. Enjoy your family, and your friends. Enjoy a walk in the woods. Enjoy a good book. Play games. Watch the sun set. Educate yourself on as many different subjects as you can.
Understand that each and every day you have is precious, because it's all you have. If you do that, then the pleasure you will get from this life will be immeasurable. If you take your life for GRANTED, *then* it won't have been worth a penny.
Don't waste a single minute of your life thinking, worrying, and obsessing about what's going to happen after you die.

Answer 3

"In the end we’ll die & million years from now the whole pleasure we ever got from this life would worth less than a penny."

I think you were doing fine up to that point, but there you've got things exactly backwards.

We really will die someday. One hundred years from now, everyone arguing on this site will be gone. Not a one of us will exist anymore. That is what makes this life precious beyond imagination.

Answer 4

You assume that life "has" to have a purpose or reason other than to just live. As far as I can tell there is nothing to indicate that there is a reason for life. Interestingly, many people "think" that their reason is to help others in life, while a noble sentiment, it is a circular reason.

Enjoying life does not mean that you need wealth or fame, and many wealthy people are very happy as you only hear about the ones that make the news.

Answer 5

yes, in a million years, all the pleasure we got will be worthless. But this seems to be true for religions as well. Atheists get all the same pleasures and meaning out of life as theists. They just don't have the idea that they will end up in a cloud city afterwords. I bet if you thought about it, most of your life isn't influenced by your looking forward to heaven. It is about the people you meet, and living your life.

Answer 6

the purpose of life is to spread your genes and that unfortuantley is it.in the grand scheme of life all organic organisms (us included) have a cycle of life. ie birth, matuaration, reproduction,decline and death as to whether we will be aware of the moment of death will be down to personal circumstance. if as an emple they dropped the bomb, as soon as the siren went off you would know it was game over, or if a dr told you you had 2 months to live. but if you where hit by a bus then it would be a sudden blackness and thats it.


what isd life worth, good question. happiness can be very easy to get. i for example have a good job, but even if not, i would still be happy as i have a wonderful loving wife who i adore. with wealth tends to come responsibility, stress and puerly miserable lives, but you find that at the end of the day you cannot take your money with you, and as long as you are good, moral, and generally pleasant to everone around you then you too will be happy and will die happy and fulfilled.

Answer 7

I don't see why wealth has anything to do with happiness.

Personally I think some of the happiest people in the world are the ones living in a rainforest, who own nothing but a pointy stick. Those people spend their lives sleeping, having sex, and hunting.

Just because "civilized" people complicate their existence with thoughts of an afterlife, the acquiring of wealth, and debating the merits of their existence, doesn't mean that that's the best way to go.

In many ways, I envy my dog, in fact.

Answer 8

Someone else said it before me. You don't need to be wealthy to be happy. There are rich and poor alike who are equally happy or unhappy. This is where, the "life is what you make it" statement comes to play. I for one, enjoy the fact that I've got kids to cherish, to me, they are my life and no amount of wealth or lack of could ever change that feeling.

Answer 9

. we do have a place in nature, as a predator, and now as a protector, since we have the ability to see the negative effects of having things "go out of balance". we are just animals, we're born, we live, we reproduce, we die, we fertilize the earth with our remains.

as far as what a life is worth? what does money have to do with it? unless you're a politian, a doctor, or a hitman, you probably haven't equated 1 human life into $$$$$.

Answer 10

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If you do not understand this answer, you did not ask the right question.

The Earth is a supercomputer designed by hyper-dimensional pan-dimensional beings (white lab mice named Frankie and Benjy) to figure out the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything. Unfortunately, Vogons will destroy the Earth five minutes before the experiment is complete and we will never find the answer.

Try to make the best use of your time in between birth and death.