What's the purpose of life?

Question

What's the purpose of life?

Answer 1

Filling Lungs with Air and Stomach with Food...

Answer 2

Not asking dumb questions.

Answer 3

You have asked a great question that's not easy to answer. Almost everyday I ask myself the same question that is it all that I go to work and try to do the best I could and earn the living for the rest of my life? Be nice to others depending upon the circumstances but that's all? There must be a greater purpose behind each life but this trip seems to be a wasted one if I continue doing the same things that I have been doing thus far. Externally there is not much to do because of the lack of opportunities. Others simply don't accept regardless of our own opinion about ourselves. So what to do in this circumstances? Our ancestors used to go to Himalayas and meditate once they reach a certain age- even the kings did that so should we go to an Ashram and live a hermit life to give some purpose to our life? It's not practical so I guess spiritual progress ( I'm not saying Religious progress) can be attended even in the middle of all these hustle and bustle if we try to look within. Just contemplate and we will find the purpose of our life.

Answer 4

I've been wandering the same question for 21 years.

Good luck finding it.

In my opinion no one can truly know.

All the answers on here are just opinions.

Answer 5

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions within the past years and a half:

1. Life has no meaning

2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is

inevitable.....