Which is the purpose of existence ? Or do we just exist & nothing more ?
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personally, i think that our "purpose", which is something that can only be self-designated, or believed in, is to make our unique contribution to the betterment of the world we are born to.\n\nand hey, Marie: if that's true, does that mean that as an atheist i get to live forever?
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I'm never really sure I do exist. I wake up and live my life and I do the same thing everyday and I wonder if it's all just a dream and I'm going to wake up and do it again. In my honest opinion, life is not truly worth living in the sense that we are all going to die anyways. Think about it. So we know the wonderful things about physics and we understand gravity, but does it really matter? Not really. It's because we all die in the end. I'm probably just using up the air. But I'll tell you, I'm having a good time of it. I don't know if there is something after this or if when I die I die. And not knowing is scary. I'd rather just live and enjoy because this may be all I get. Whoever I am. Below is something I wrote that more clearly explains my opinion. Or maybe it is just more confusing.
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I think we have first the abiity to choose. What good would it do to have options if we didn't know what to do with them? And yes, I think things need a "reference point" so to speak in order to "exist." Yet when God created the world He created everything else before he created man. Maybe this question is not as simple as it seemed when I first read it. Oh dear.
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I think this answer is different for every individual. I must however consider the only two answers that aree most common. \nSome people answer that there is no meaning to life. That we are here due to cosmic chance & probability and that because of the infinite universe the combinations are endless. Now these theories are all but proven. Somebody that discusses these ideas will have proven facts, intelligent theories and also aknowledge that the answer is ultimately unknown
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If nothing exist, It must be outside our own Universe where there is no time, matter, energy nor space. Just 'nothing' which cannot be comprehended. \n\nHow can you comprehend nothing if nothing is existed?\nThere is nothing to be comprehended afterall.\nYou better stop thinking nothing and start thinking something.
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my purpose.\n\nstill finding out since the journey to discovery has yet to end.
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is there a point to this?
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In this span or period of life that is bestowed on us, by an unknown energy, we have to live a full life with a purpose.\nHow can we know our purpose if we dont know who we are.? We are actually just spirits in reality. Otherwise we are like any other animal, always trying to meet his worldly desires. Everything in this world is infinite except the spirit.Spirit is infinite, and its joy is infinite, its beauty is infinite. Any other success connected with this world is left here, in this world.Only  our deep faith, sincerity  and unshaken belief in GOD makes our spirit happy. This happiness is not mixed with fear, that We have to give it up one day or the other. This detaches us from worldly fun. We celeberate our birthdays with pomp and show but they are pushing us towards our last "manzil" . Our attachment to the creator  helps us to detach ourselves from this world. We can know Him through our spiritual eyes and see Him in everything.\nHe is One Undisputed master, Omnipresent, who is our eternal Companion. We never feel miserable in any circumstances when we are leaving this world at his Call. BUT suicide is greatest of sins and the thanklessness, that makes God angry.
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Life could be a theory too...how do you prove that you exist? Try reading Descartes' Meditation...
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We are alive to carry on our species, no more and no less. It is the same with the whole of creation.\nWe as human beings though are thinking, sentient beings capable of questioning even our very existence, as you have done. Not only do we question, but we seek answers, answers that will be passed on for the benefit of the next generation. We learn from our mistakes, and the mistakes of others. Yes there are many reasons for our existence, very many reasons.
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Nothingness.\n\nOr maybe it's encroaching on another Universe?  Hmmmm......
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the meaning of life....\nthe reason we live....\nis only to die
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My opinion through many meditative thoughts:\n\nI believe our universe exists as a point in what you call 'the void'. A point having the geometric meaning of no volume, dimensionless.\n\nI believe what you are considering the void is what I call space. Our universe is what we can view, touch and explain through science we have developed. Space on the other hand is an infinitely dimensional medium, in which our universe was born. \n\nOur universe is nothing more than a 'disturbance' in space, and in space our universe exists as a point. This point is a fraction of infinity, yet everything is a fraction of infinity. So in the humble realization that we are nothing (a fraction of infinity), we realize we are equal to everything we can fathom, as it too is a fraction of infinity no matter how large.\n\nSo, through the realization that we are nothing comes the discovery that we can be equal to as much as we can fathom. \n\nI believe this means everything that makes up the universe and space has its own existence or presence known to space and must exist.  This existence holds true for our universe and what we would consider other universes. The disappearance, or non-existance of any defined object and its position in space no matter how small, down to a point, would truly have mind boggling consequences. \n\nIf time travel is possible than there must be alternate universes, as we know it.  It is a deadening thought to ponder.  Almost pointless until we figure out gravity, which I believe will open the door to all other understandings.
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We are the accidental products of unthinking natural processes, and therefore the meaning and purpose of life can be anything we choose.  For myself, I didn't choose to exist, but now I'm here I want to enjoy life, bring up my kids well, leave the world a slightly better place than when I joined it, and die having no major regrets about what I have or haven't done in my life.
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A thought I always ponder, not necessarily ' the meaning', but the destiny or the plan...\n\nMaybe we were a plan of the universe from the moment of its' creation in order to thwart its' inevitable demise billions of years from now.  The universe 'knew' it was going to create conditions likely for intelligent life to form in hopes that one day that  life created would come to grips with the workings of universe and space to the point that it wolud figure out a way for it to exist forever.\n\nTherefore the meaning of an individuals life is to add to the progression of society in anyway.  In other words, do what you like to do that contributes.  It could be something as trivial as smiling at everyone you meet.
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Each person's life is their own. What your life is about is an adventure only you can explore. Each of us must seek this answer in our own way. There is a purpose for everyone whether it be grand or mundane, there is an answer to this question. Search for it, find it and live it!
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Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.\n\nI believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.\n\nAs human beings, we all ask the question: Who am I? Who am I meant to become? What is my value or destiny as a human being? Who will become for me the model of my humanity? Pope John Paul II told us that ultimately JESUS CHRIST IS THE ANSWER to these questions. Christ is the living blueprint and pattern for our humanity. Jesus Christ reveals our meaning to us.\n\nThus Pope John Paul II, quoting Vatican II in his Redeemer of the Human Race, wrote: "Christ...fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling." "In Christ and through Christ," the pope added, all are enabled to come to "full awareness of their dignity...and of the meaning of their existence."\n\nYou need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth. \n\nThe meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us.