Are we here for a reason and what do you think is the purpose of living?

Question

whether you consider it to be human kind's purpose in general, or if you think it is only your purpose and everyone else's could be different, i want to read your opinions.

i don't know if i have a purpose... i'd like to believe that i do but am unsure ..

Answer 1

Hey..i love this Question..

To me..every single thing has a purpose....

The very fact that we are living is because of a purpose....

And the Purpose of Living is to Have a LIFE OF PURPOSE!!!!It is as simple as that but very difficult to follow....

Answer 2

Click on Introduction to this link. It explains "purpose" in a way I'm certain you have not considered.

http://freeassemblage.blogspot.com/

Answer 3

We have the same purpose as every other animal in the animal race.

The race is to survive, and the finishing line is to reproduce.

Why do we live to pass on our genes?

It obviusly has a higher purpose that we dont know yet.

Answer 4

Well how to start this .... have u accepted Jesus Christ as ur personal savior and do u believe that he is the son of God and do u believe that being the son of God that he was risen from the grave... if not i suggest going to Church and looking into being saved..... and start looking for the real purpose in life .... yes there is a reason for living God has a plan for each and every one of us and his plan involves u.   yes u do have a purpose for living maybe u have not figured it out yet but hopefully u will .

my only advice is to start going to church and have someone open the word of the Lord  and then maybe u will see his will and figure out what ur purpose is

GOOD LUCK

Answer 5

Of course there are purposes in life.   Just pick one.   For example, my purpose in life is to answer yahoo questions and annoy people.   But you can pick something better.

Answer 6

I do not think we are here for any special reason. Nor do I think there is a point to living other than to experience everything you possibly can because this is the only life you get. Individuals get to "create" their own meaning in life, and to me that is what makes it worth living.

Answer 7

We are children even the oldest of us.

We have the potential of continuing our lives through finding in our personal experience the God of creation our creator, though faith. It must be by faith for we are mortals, meaning we are born and we live but for a short time while in the flesh then we will die.

While in the flesh we are given by our Creator many gifts, one is volition, the right to choose, the freedom of choice not even God will make us choose him, over any one else, including ourselves.

God has a plan for each one of us it is up to us to find in our relationship with God that plan. This may not happen in this life but if we, through faith, reach the next life, (spirit) we will have more time to find out what this plan is.

In life our Creator asks only one thing of us. "be you perfect in your life, as I am in mine." This does not sound so bad does it? For us to be perfect, each one will be different for we are not all the same, we must do our very best with what we have and then we will be perfect. God does the best He can so it is up to us to try to be God like.

No one can tell you what God is like they can share their personal experience with you but only God can tell you how to be like He is. You will seek God in this life and in lives yet to come for an eternity if that is what it takes until you will be prepared to stand in His glory and receive His blessing in person.

I can share with you my understanding of what Gods will is for us to follow in our lives; Truth-Beauty-Goodness, its a start

Answer 8

I think we are all mutated virusus who keep spreading and breeding and over populating until we grow into a mass pile of chaos and have to be shipped off to the next closest planet to regenerate.    We destroy everything in opur path and thats our purpose.......

What is a cold cold virus' purpose?  Nothing..... to mutate and over populate and try and kill off our ammune system.... as we do to the world...... VIRUSUS!!!

Answer 9

There is no God and there is no purpose. While this can sound terrible and depressing, it is not. As individuals with no purpose, we are free to create our own purpose and be driven by our own motivations, our own moral codes, our own logic, and our own desires instead of those of "fate". This is the greatest virtue all humans have: freedom.

Answer 10

We are here to be happy, joyous and free. That's the way God made it to be.

Answer 11

purpose of living is to die... and be part of the worlds food chain...

on a brighter side though, purpose of living is to feel the cruelty of the world. you get to be happy sometimes though, but i bet stress of the world weighs more.

and im not being pessimistic when i said that.

Answer 12

Man is not like a plant that does not require intelligence or emotions to survive.  Man has both.

Man is not like an animal that has both intelligence and emotions and instinct but does not have the ability to believe in the impossible.  Man can believe in anything he wants to while having intelligence and emotions.

So what is man's purpose in life?  Since a man is born in an immediate family then he has a role to live in for a few years in the nuclear family at home.  He learns news roles all the time meeting different people and circumstances. And for most people in life just interacting in life with others and fulfilling or ignoring their needs is purpose enough.

It is in between these relationships and circumstances when a man can subconciously recognize his uniqueness and aloneness.  That is when the issue of purpose comes in.  Family, friends, and circumstances filled the void but something remains amiss.  We lack purpose.

Many have had these same questions and found the answers in a philosophy to live by.  And these ideas have been recorded and read for thousands of years.  This is why they exist today to augment the sense of purpose overall for man.  They are there to satisfy something still deeper.  Something to believe in.  

It appears that that is the purpose of man.  To find that belief that suits them well in life.