Purpose of Life?

[Reyaj]

Often I feel life is just a series of distractions until our inevitable death.

What is the purpose to reproduce? To just continue this cycle of people distracting themselves with sports, food, video games, whatever... Day by day passes by and before we know it we are our past our physical primes and start thinking about retirement. Then we die!

So wtf is the purpose or point of life?

 

[DEEZEDBRAH]

So wtf is the purpose or point of life?

That's for you to discover.

Seek self knowledge. Explore consciousness. Be about your ambition. Not knowing your purpose means your current purpose is figuring it out.

Read, way of the superior man by David Deida.

 

[Ranger]

What do you want for yourself?
Life. It persists. You can’t really even kill it, not permanently.
“So why not do the best thing you could possibly do? Do you have something better to do? Really?”
J. Peterson

 

[Dingo]

Ahhh.. the existential crisis hits...

You think things look dim now ?... just wait until your in your 50's.... lol

Truthfully... In the end it doesn't even matter...

 

[Billtx49]

The purpose of life? To learn, then take appropriate future actions based on what you’ve learned previously …

 

[wifehunter]

Everyone has their own mission. At this point, your purpose, is to find yours.

 

[corrector]

Often I feel life is just a series of distractions until our inevitable death.

What is the purpose to reproduce? To just continue this cycle of people distracting themselves with sports, food, video games, whatever... Day by day passes by and before we know it we are our past our physical primes and start thinking about retirement. Then we die!

So wtf is the purpose or point of life?

That is one of the smartest posts on here because you are dealing with spiritual reality and are looking at eternity.

There is no real purpose in this world apart from finding God and doing His will. God has a plan for your life before you were born and loves you enough to have sent His Son to die for your sins (be buried and resurrected) so you could be adopted as being a son of God yourself as Jesus can live on the inside of you. The greatest love someone can express is to die for you. You can approach God based on what Jesus did and have all of your sins forgiven. I would recommend finding a Bible believing church or place where you can sense there is a presence of God and the people are genuine, it's something you can usually pick up in your intuition, and try praying and seeking out God. Normally you should be able to spot a true Christian in a crowd. There is always something "different" about them. They have been born-again. Then you find purpose when you find Jesus and everything is about Him and not yourself.

The distractions that you speak of is to lure you away from Jesus and getting to the bottom of life and leaving you just numb while you go through the motions with a false sense of purpose. You are right, people will be distracted while the world comes apart around them. 2 Timothy 3:7 "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth". That describes the distracted society that's educated, but not finding the truth. John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me". Jesus is the truth. If the direction of life is not finding out who the person of Jesus is, how you can know Jesus or invite Him into your life and get an encounter with Him, then there is no direction at all that's profitable in the end.

So, well said thread. At the end, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecc 1:14. You have found the vanity so the battle is half-won.

 

[ChristopherColumbus]

Often I feel life is just a series of distractions until our inevitable death.

What is the purpose to reproduce? To just continue this cycle of people distracting themselves with sports, food, video games, whatever... Day by day passes by and before we know it we are our past our physical primes and start thinking about retirement. Then we die!

So wtf is the purpose or point of life?

The beginning of self-knowledge starts in perceiving ourselves as embodied spirits, not as matter in motion.

 

[Alvafe]

The beginning of self-knowledge starts in perceiving ourselves as embodied spirits, not as matter in motion.

or a way to hide your fears of when you die there is nothing and you cease to exist.

pupose in life? the most basic thing, the only thing make most alive beings wake up in the morning is procreation, passing your genes for the next generation, all else is to permit you do so, and defend your kids for the time they need. that is the basic for all beings alive, be a insect or a dog or any other animal(humans too)

now if you want more, that is up to you, some want to life forever by doing something they will leave they name in history, other just want to life confortable, others want to belive in a higher power so if they are "good" they will be rewarded when they die, in the end what you need to ask is what you want? we want to belive there is more, but there is none, we like to make things harder then they are, we like to think there is a meaning on everything, but forget there is none, everything is chaos, you have little to no control over things

 

[corrector]

or a way to hide your fears of when you die there is nothing and you cease to exist.

Why would that be a fear? That is better than going to hell, burning in flames in anguish for eternity and having devils - monsters also torment you and rip-you apart. Knowing the only thing that is keeping you from that dreadful place is the fact you are alive and breathing is not really hiding fears. There is countless youtube videos of people who have visited hell in N.D.E.'s. . The only escape of that place is to be saved by Jesus.

others want to belive in a higher power so if they are "good" they will be rewarded when they die,

No amount of good anyone can do can erase their own sins. Our good deeds are like filthy rags to God. Is 64:5. Everyone is guilty before God.
Even if you believe you are doing good, it is for the wrong motives, and God looks at everything, what you are thinking and what you are saying as well. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse people from sin and it has to be applied spiritually and by faith in what Jesus did.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Purpose of Life?

get lambo, bang hookers

 

[Alvafe]

Why would that be a fear? That is better than going to hell, burning in flames in anguish for eternity and having devils - monsters also torment you and rip-you apart. Knowing the only thing that is keeping you from that dreadful place is the fact you are alive and breathing is not really hiding fears. There is countless youtube videos of people who have visited hell in N.D.E.'s. . The only escape of that place is to be saved by Jesus.



No amount of good anyone can do can erase their own sins. Our good deeds are like filthy rags to God. Is 64:5. Everyone is guilty before God.
Even if you believe you are doing good, it is for the wrong motives, and God looks at everything, what you are thinking and what you are saying as well. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse people from sin and it has to be applied spiritually and by faith in what Jesus did.

another fear control, do what god wants, follow the church, then you can be saved, if you start to really read and think you know most religion and society in general employ several fear inducing things to manipulate people in doing what would be considerated acceptable, same in the army, and serious its easier me belive on thor or zeus then anything spilled from the catholic church and his derivatives

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

1) make enough to pay for what you want / need

2) stay out of debt

3) stay out of prison

4) don't die

5) keep making more money

6) keep getting more pvssy

7) enjoy whatever free time you have doing whatever you want when you aren't making $$ or getting laid

8) convert to some religion just before you die to stay on the safe side

 

[speed dawg]

8) convert to some religion just before you die to stay on the safe side

At least you admit that you need something else, or you face eternal blackness (or fire).

 

[corrector]

another fear control, do what god wants, follow the church, then you can be saved, if you start to really read and think you know most religion and society in general employ several fear inducing things to manipulate people in doing what would be considerated acceptable, same in the army, and serious its easier me belive on thor or zeus then anything spilled from the catholic church and his derivatives

...and you have been dead, came back from the dead, and can objectively say what you experience? The problem is that if your knowledge is based on what you can see, taste, hear, and feel and only believe in empirical knowledge then you are at a loss since there is no way for you to know that. As I don't hold to empirical knowledge as the only source of knowledge then it's invalid for you to say there is nothing because it would contradict your empirical belief system of the world.

To reiterate my point again, and explore the philosophical implications of what you said: You mentioned a belief (or I would say having a relationship) with God is somehow hiding the worst fear or outcome in your mind as necessary. Obviously, hell being real is the worst outcome compared to your version of death. Therefore, to belief death is final and there is no hell is in a negative sense you believing there is heaven compared to not believing anything and dying as you originally said. Therefore, maybe it is your belief is really hiding behind something. If you just die there is no accountability to how you lived your life, how you treated other people, what opportunities were given to you to reach out for God and what you did with those opportunities, etc.... This means the only restraining force is civil laws and institutions because there is no potential punishment beyond or God to fear. Doesn't that sound more like hiding from something than your version which is you just die and have no accountability to God at all to how you lived your life?

 

[ChristopherColumbus]

or a way to hide your fears of when you die there is nothing and you cease to exist.

pupose in life? the most basic thing, the only thing make most alive beings wake up in the morning is procreation, passing your genes for the next generation, all else is to permit you do so, and defend your kids for the time they need. that is the basic for all beings alive, be a insect or a dog or any other animal(humans too)

now if you want more, that is up to you, some want to life forever by doing something they will leave they name in history, other just want to life confortable, others want to belive in a higher power so if they are "good" they will be rewarded when they die, in the end what you need to ask is what you want? we want to belive there is more, but there is none, we like to make things harder then they are, we like to think there is a meaning on everything, but forget there is none, everything is chaos, you have little to no control over things

Yes, but fear and anxiety are very real.. they are directly perceived by..... us. If we were nothing but matter, why would be experience fear? Materialism has some very convoluted explanations for the way in which we experience ourselves directly in the first person... but these explanations only explain things away, which is no explanation at all.

 

[ChristopherColumbus]

A huge part of the problem people face today is an inability to face themselves. This leads to all forms of escapism and addiction, which only goes to show that there is some sort of 'need', or desire, at the center of our being.

 

[ChristopherColumbus]

Just as a plant orientates itself toward the light, we too have a natural propensity to seek out meaning. Despair is the stunting, or repression, of this natural instinct. This is why biology [the study of life], in the old sense, was a better paradigm by which to understand ourselves... so much superior to the abstract mechanics of physics.

 

[sosousage]

purpose of life is to be rich and to not be not rich

 

[IKO69]

To have a wide variety of experiences so you can say look back and say you truly lived.