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Daner 
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 Topic: What is the Purpose of LifePosted: 23-Feb-2008 at 03:03 |
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Going DEEP here, lol. What do you think the purpose of life is? Personally, I think that now we have evolved into a very advanced society with constant changing, our purpose is to serve a future generation, making new technological advances, and providing services for younger generations.
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Majkes
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Posted: 23-Feb-2008 at 07:52 |
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I wouldn't agree with You though I admire Your responsibility for future generations
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For me the sense of life is to be happy, to do what I like, also to help my friends.
I think friend are most important in people's life. Nevertheless I'm still thinking about it and I'm not sure.
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JanusRook
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Posted: 23-Feb-2008 at 08:50 |
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Personally I believe that the purpose of living is to prepare ourselves for the afterlife, we are to work here to grow into the people we are to become once we die. A simple answer but not such a simple concept. |
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es_bih
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Posted: 23-Feb-2008 at 10:30 |
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“This life is but a tillage for the next, do good that you may reap there; for striving is the ordinance of God and whatever God hath ordained can only be attained by striving” To add to Janus' post. It is a hard concept definetly to grasp, and I'm sure Janus will elaborate on it as well in the thread. |
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Illirac
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Posted: 23-Feb-2008 at 14:11 |
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purpose of life? - to make the world a better place, to help friends, to be happy and to live your life(no matter how hard it is)
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Posted: 23-Feb-2008 at 23:48 |
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If you say that there is a purpose, you accept there is someone who planned the things. The purpose of life is the happiness and eternity. |
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Mughal e Azam
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 05:49 |
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One thing I realized and Alan Greenspan confirmed on the Today Show with Jon Stewart: No matter how educated humans get, how intelligent they become, how much technology they have access to, humans will be humans.
Humans will get scared, get angry, humans will subjugate and then be subjugated, humans will kill and ask for mercy when they are in turn to be killed. Humans have brains, but they also have emotions. They have ideas but also worries and fears.
Once I realized how fragile humans were, I just gave up my agnosticism and embraced religion. Allahu Alim.
I took a spin with the whole "we are here to enjoy life" but found it such a dreary and futile concept. For one, many people in the world are unable to enjoy life. They live through times of war and mayhem, and its not fair their life sucks and others have less sucky lives. Anyhow, happiness, like sadness, are fleeting feelings that you "deal" with until new conditions arrive (granted happiness is *easiest* to deal with). Its a state of being, and to say the purpose of life is to be "happy" consistently is to say you want to achieve some sort of Buddhist enlightenment or want to be in a state of high until death.
And even with being drugged (chemical changes in body making you feel elated) the body will get used to the current high, and you need more drugs to reach an even higher state of high, until your drugged out body is ditched 6 ft under.
Secondly, I noticed money doesnt buy happiness, but goods. In fact money is a currency for exchanging goods, not emotions and feelings. You may be emotive after purchasing a new toy or game, but its not exactly a feeling that stays.
Lastly, I didnt want to die. Because that meant end of feeling, and I wouldnt truly know how things turned out. Edited by Mughaal - 24-Feb-2008 at 05:55 |
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Northman
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 16:12 |
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There is no purpose in life itself. We are not born with a preset mission or purpose, but because of a coincidence and on borrowed time. If we change the question slightly and ask "What is the purpose of YOUR life" instead, the answer will change dramatically. This is something you really need to think about, and one of your most important missions if you plan to have kids. ~ Northman |
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 16:23 |
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The purpose of live is simply survive.
Life is a game against death. During a short period we have the opportunity to defeat death by simply living and having children, then death wins back again.
Every living thing in the planet, humans, animals, plants and even societies, are just fighting for survival and expansion (that is another form of survival).
With our life we are just minor soldiers in the ethernal battle of life against death.
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 16:43 |
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This reminds me of Roman Catholic doctrine because according to the Church, Jesus in the end defeats death. Therefore death can never win. |
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 19:16 |
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It is not solely Catholic, but a general Christian thesis. |
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 20:50 |
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To break all the commandments and all the deadly sins, before you die.
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 21:01 |
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Well, I have a Catholic formation and I admire Pierre Theilhard de Chardin.... So I bet I got those ideas from them.
But, anyways, the important point is that we can see life in function of its conflict with death, without recalling supernatural beings or gods. Just in naturalistic terms.
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Posted: 24-Feb-2008 at 21:59 |
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The question I've pondered since I was able to conciously think... Being a religiously minded individual, the answer Janus and es_bih give always comes to mind; live a christian life (or muslim, etc. depending on ones religious convictions)/to prepare for the next life. Though I'm still not 100% sure/undecided I am. It could be to understand oneself, to understand nature. Honestly I do not know. So basically this was a waste of a post.
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JanusRook
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Posted: 25-Feb-2008 at 05:25 |
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Just remember that preparing for death doesn't mean preparing for the end. Remember death is but the continuation of life through other means. |
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Mughal e Azam
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Posted: 25-Feb-2008 at 05:47 |
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All of you are wrong, and I am right.
Boo Yah.
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Ponce de Leon
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Posted: 25-Feb-2008 at 06:24 |
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Right as in stating the fact that the only reason to live is to enjoy the best feeling of the world which is having a great sit-in at the toilet? 
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Posted: 25-Feb-2008 at 06:44 |
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The purpose of life is, obviously, whatever you think it is.
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But since religion is faith (as opposed to evidence), wouldn't that be similar to working your whole life and not expecting the paycheck until you possibly cannot recieve it?
If I claimed that I would end up in Valhalla, would either of you think that was possible?
(The questions are only rhetorical - answers not necessary)
Asking the questions, I also realise the possiblilty that there could be an afterlife.
But what are the demands asked from us to enter the afterlife?
Can anyone, living an average life in a modern world, qualify for an afterlife if we take the words of Jesus literally?
In my opinion, the conditions to qualify are not compatible with modern life, living standards or way of thinking. Isn't it an illusion when we think, that conveniently adapting the demands to modern life is a valid interpretation?
So in my perspective, by all standards, there is no paycheck to be expected and thus, the purpose of my life cannot be to prepare for a possible afterlife. Thats why I decided long ago to look at this life as a gift, recieve it with grattitude and live it to its fullest.
However, in making a purpose of trying to meet and treasuring the directions and values given by Jesus, our lives becomes richer, and that way we get a reward in this life. Also, living this life to the fullest, makes the personal need for an afterlife less obvious.
Anyways, we can certainly hope I'm wrong, and that you will recieve the paycheck.  Faith and hope - not too bad concepts afterall.
~ Northman
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Cezar
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I think, like Northman, that life is a simple natural process that has no purpose.
The fact that after evolving humans have become so complex that they generated concepts like purpose, reason, etc. doesn't necessary mean that those concepts are significant outside the human world, both physical and spiritual.
The very concept of afterlife is quite unnatural, in my opinion. What about a beforelife? In a way we are eternal since death isn't the end of our constituents.
To me the purpose of my life is to enjoy living and act so that others will appreciate what I do.
*that perpetual state of bliss of those in heaven; boooooooooooring! what kind of hope is this?
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