my new revelation on the purpose of life.

[refugee]

so everybody says

"we are here for a reason, there has to be a reason that we are here, the higher power has something planned."

well, im sad to say that there is a massive possibility that the purpose of our existence is to recycle into this planet. maybe the higher power or whatever only has us live to keep this planet fertilized and growing. We could be completely insignificant to this "god" and could just be here to die and become... fertilizer.

think about that when you wonder what the purpose of being here could possibly be.

[dtom]

There is no built-in 'purpose of life' that some imaginary higher power placed into existence along with the rest of creation.

The only real purpose of anything is to exist, seeing as how that is all anything can do in the long run. It doesn't matter what you do with your life, what purposes you decide for yourself, or anything like that. In the end, you will still die. Even if you managed to contribute something wonderful to humanity, humans will eventually all die out. All that will be left of anything is the atoms that made up it up.

[Ambient]

That seems more like a contemplaton than a revelation/realization; they are different. There are no "maybe"'s in revelation.

I personally belief our purpose is to find purpose.

Maybe we are here to fertalize the planet; maybe that is an illusion to pervade us from our true purpose; point is when you invent scenario's its a slipperly slope to lunacy.

Duplicate>Understand>Contemplate>Realize.

You cant pass go and collect 200$, you have to follow the method otherwise judgement becomes arbitruary.

Most certainly one of our most important functions is to maintain species survival.

[LiquidIce]

Maybe our purpose is to exercise our free will. Better ourselves, enjoy life etc.

Also each person may have a different purpose... Don't confuse meaning of life with purpose of life, since everyone can set their life a different purpose.

[The Jitterskull]

What I do:
- Nice and helpful to everyone who wants it, regardless of situation unless I can't

What I want to do:
- Fly spaceships

Those are the two goals of my life.

[0omnidirectional]

To treat every moment as a crisis.
An ongoing battle between death and eternal life.
Personality/selfness and Spirit.
Some take the middle path of personality and Spirit, the life of an average citizen.
It is through dying to self that one becomes a saint.
To allow the grace of the Divine to flow through you in all moments.

The seed of God is within you.
Pear seeds grow into pear trees.
God seed into God.

[ArmsMerchant]

We have one final end and goal--to attain unitive knowledge of the Divine ground of being. In the Christian mythos, this means going to heaven. In the Wiccan mythos, going to Summerland. In a more eastern context, it means attaining enlightenment, satori, becoming one with the Void, whatever.

Aldous Huxley put it this way--"Because we don't know Who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal Ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been."

What happens to the physical body after the soul no longer requires it to manifest on this plane is irrelevant.

[BatCountry]

Purpose is a abstract man made concept.

But if you believe that, you'll live everyday in misery. Just like me. :D

[Mr.Happy]

Life has no purpose. Life is a high-order logical function of the properties of matter. We're just like atoms in how we act and interact, obeying our own set of universal laws. Just like how solar systems are atoms, and galaxies molecules. Everything behaves the same on the right timescale. It's like a kind of dynamic fractal.

[refugee]

The seed of God is within you.
Pear seeds grow into pear trees.
God seed into God.

so wait? I have god in me? can I piss his nosy good for nothing bitch ass out?

[Ambient]

so wait? I have god in me? can I piss his nosy good for nothing bitch ass out?

I think you are the victim of God's "representatives on earth".

God is not limited to Religion.

But look at different religions and youll see different definitions of God.

For example Jainism believes that God is the divinity within all souls.

But of course, having formed a decision on God and trying not to make an arbritruary decision on God; you would have known this already.

You cannot take good or bad out of yourself or the world, only embrace or dissapate them. So yeah you could kick God out.

Although the fact that you are living in a world that can be godless is proof enough isnt it?

[0omnidirectional]

so wait? I have god in me? can I piss his nosy good for nothing bitch ass out?

If you care to hear my view on that question, read my quote.

Even if one is completely engrossed in their personality self, the seed will still be there. Patently waiting for the proper ground grow in.

[BrokeProphet]

God is not limited to Religion.

Yes, he is.

God is limited to religion, for me.

I shoved him back into the realm of fantasy and bullshit where he belongs.

[Mr.Happy]

Yes, he is.

God is limited to religion, for me.

I shoved him back into the realm of fantasy and bullshit where he belongs.

A God could exist outside of the realm of religion, and religion can exist without a link to a God.

Any sufficiently advanced race would be indistinguishable from Gods to us, too.

[Ambient]

God is limited to religion, for me.


Kay ethnographic bias.

God is not limited to religion; although God often is.

Ought/is fallicy please much.

[danmega]

I thought about this for a while, and after continually looping, no matter the string of logic, to the same purposeless/meaningless ideas i started with, i decided to try a different tack.

I find that everyone is built differently, thus there cannot be a global purpose to life, as it could be overly cruel to those who don't want it, and it would thus be a diminishment of freedom, a key universal element.

People are wired different, so thus each has to make his own decision on the "point" to life, as it were. So there really aren't any wrong answers that come to this, merely unsatisfactory results...

What I tell myself to keep from crumbling underneath the weight of it all, the horrific suffering of untold millions, the incalcuable, pointless pain people all over the world go through day in and day out for no good reason...

Experience. To let your eternal soul know temporary life, in whatever way it/you sees fit. I can explain suffering through this.

Free choice, down to the sub-atomic particle(double-slit experiment??), is a necessary function of the universe, for without it the 4th dimension, time itself, each moment would be indistinguishable from the next, because all times were written the second the big bang happened, and no experience could be possible, for it would be chronologically speaking, similar to a movie with each scene on the screen at the same time, on pause mind you.

Thus the universe is segregated into frames and an eternal soul can "feel" a temporary life. And freedom follows naturally, good or bad. People must have the option to kill, rape, steal, save lives, give, sacrifice, w/e. "evil doers", say a warlord in africa, for example, many would say that it would be better they were wiped off the face of the earth, and even blame god for their very existence. But god has nothing to do with them, they chose to oppress and overpower, their choice to become scum of the earth. And their souls experience devastating evil, no matter what the self believes. And their subjects, they experience incredible suffering, and pain. But this symbiosis is necessary, because that is how we, as a race, grow and live, if not in such black-and-white terms.

The purpose to life is experience because it allows for evil, it allows for all the things people have against a "god", because experience is something tangible. You know, in an abstract way. If there was no evil, there could be no good, and that would get old fast. If there was no good, ect. ect. It's the differentiation that makes life worth living, it seems at no matter the cost.

Also, for the time bit, you may think about prophets, or people who can tell the future, deja-vu w/e. I believe that these are exercises in probability, not time. read: 5th dimension, not 4th.

[ArmsMerchant]

Yes, he is.

God is limited to religion, for me.


Well, there's your problem. Religions, by definition, limit God--which is in turn by definition, without limits.

This, in a nutshell, is why organized religion tends to be so--for want of a more enlightened term--fucked up.

It was not until that I rejected religion that I could find God.

[EveFailed]

Life has no purpose. Life is a high-order logical function of the properties of matter. We're just like atoms in how we act and interact, obeying our own set of universal laws. Just like how solar systems are atoms, and galaxies molecules. Everything behaves the same on the right timescale. It's like a kind of dynamic fractal.

That was beautiful! Someone oughta organize those words to some music and make the first ever secular hymn.

[Obbe]

Nature is purposeless. I think "order" and "chaos" eventually become indistinguishable.

It is also infinite and eternal. This could also be called God.

The "purpose of life" is whatever you dream up.

[Waspish]

Purpose in life?
Hope and faith are survival instincts that we are born with.
They trick us into keeping each other alive and to believe that there is a reason for us to be here (other than for evolution to screw around with us and try to make us perfect).
That is my theory, anyway.

[Marquis In Spades]

so everybody says

"we are here for a reason, there has to be a reason that we are here, the higher power has something planned."

well, im sad to say that there is a massive possibility that the purpose of our existence is to recycle into this planet. maybe the higher power or whatever only has us live to keep this planet fertilized and growing. We could be completely insignificant to this "god" and could just be here to die and become... fertilizer.

think about that when you wonder what the purpose of being here could possibly be.

life sucks then you die try to enjoy it and fuck lots of hot people while your hear oh and s.w.e.d