What is the purpose of life ?
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To please and love God.
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This question, "What is the meaning and purpose of life?" has the same answer that I am now giving you.\n\nThe meaning and purpose of life is to be happy by also making others happy in the best way possible, but that means by doing the right thing. Sometimes people are not happy because of what is going on in their families and what is going on around them, but just by giving love to the people that surround us and seeing them be happy is enough for me. Sure I am sad at many times and there are a lot of times when I think people don't love me, but I just want to see a better world someday. I think everyone has a purpose in life, for example a teacher's purpose is to teach, Mother Theresa's purpose was to help the poor, it really depends on what you find makes you and others happy. Everyone has a purpose in life, it's just that sometimes it may take longer for some people to find what their purpose is. If you have not found your purpose, keep looking, don't give up, there's a purpose out there for you. ;0)
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The meaning of life is to live it.
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Life is what you make of it. We're all here for a reason, but that reason is different for every single one of us. The purpose of us living is to fulfill the above, to find out the reason we're here and achieve the goal in satisfying ourselves that we've found out that reason and completed it.
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What would be the purpose in doing so?
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you mean what is the meaning of life on earth?  what is our purpose? who knows, and why does it matter anyway?  \n\nIt's nice to ponder on such things, but we don't actually NEED all the answers in life to live a fulfilling happy existence anyway.
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We are born to create, to give life, to love, and to laugh. There is nothing else... We must share what we have with the next generation because they are the only important thing. They are the future. To be alive is to see, and hear, and CHANGE. To do these things is to know the meaning of life.
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I don't think life must have a purpose.\n\nI think that thinking beings generally want there to be a purpose, in order to justify their existence and actions, especially when their existence is difficult or threatened. But I don't believe that life in general requires a purpose.\n\nThat's not to say that life is unnecessary or nonvaluable. Just that I see no requirement that life have a purpose. I do want my own life to have a purpose--of course I do, and I seek meaning in what I do and how I act. But I don't think that there's a causal relationship between the existence of Life and the need for a Purpose behind that life.
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I hope.\nIve been asking myself this but I can never find the answer.\nI hope life has a meaning because then what would the point be?
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Essentially, there is no purpose to anything, life included. We are nothing more than just a collection of particles, a result of the laws of probability. And we will be nothing more than just a bunch of particles when we are gone. Not one action of ours affects the universe or its course. Not one action of ours bears any significance. In the end, all is pointless which gives us the power of absolute responsibility. We give life our own meaning; we have to, otherwise we wouldn't exist. This poistion of having the choice of life's meaning implies that all responsibility is in our hands; we create our own reality, we are the reason why the world looks the way it does. And only we can change it, if we want to. \n\nAs for accidents, returning to the initial argument concerning the particles, all particles have momentum, i.e. a mass and a velocity (which means speed and a direction). Hence, on a theoretical level that can never be reached, the movement of all particles can be predicted. Thus, all future can be predicted and so, essentially, life and all existance (the universe included) is pre-determined, even though we can never know how and by no means can this serve as an excuse. In the end, life is just life, nothing more, nothing less. We have to make it more nonetheless, as we need to have a reason to exist in order to exist.
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"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:\n\nSurvival and temporal success\n\n...to accumulate wealth and increase social status \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \nWisdom and knowledge\n\n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers \n...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life \nEthical\n\n...to express compassion \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to give and receive love \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to work for justice and democracy \nEsoteric/Other\n\n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace \n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole, though this has little impact on its accuracy) \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose, existence has no meaning beyond which one chooses to give it) \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...to live and enjoy the passage of time \n...to own a megaphone
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The meaning of life is to always wonder about what might be the meaning of life. Its like a rat in one of those spinning circles..you just keep wondering and wondering but you never get anywhere
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life is a discovery...of yourself...your desires...your ambitions....your destiny....\n\nand of everything that can ever be....\n\nlife is a melody, a mystery, an expression, a story, a rhythm, a puzzle, a reflection...life is an awareness of the cosmic soul
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The meaning of life, to me, is to find your purpose in life, fulfill that purpose, and make a positive difference in someone else's life.  Leaving this world better than what you entered into it is just AWESOME.  A relationship with Christ is the key to finding your purpose and fulfilling it.
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the meaning of life....\nthe reason we live....\nis only to die
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Our purpose in life is to worship God. Eccl. 12:13: "The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole obligation of man." This will bring us the most happiness.\n\nThe psalmist David also wrote about the incoming new world and how long it would endure. He foretold: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:29) That is why Jesus promised: “Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.”—Matthew 5:5.\n\nWhat a grand prospect that is, living forever on a paradise earth free from all wickedness, crime, sickness, sorrow, and pain! In the final book of the Bible, God’s prophetic Word summarizes this grand purpose by declaring: “God will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” It adds: “And the One seated on the throne said: ‘Look! I am making all things new.’ Also, he says: ‘Write, because these words are faithful and true.’”—Revelation 21:4, 5.\n\nYes, God has a grand purpose in mind. It will be a new world of righteousness, an eternal paradise, foretold by the One who can and will do what he promises, for his “words are faithful and true.”\n\nPerfect Health, Everlasting Life.\n\n“No resident will say: ‘I am sick.’”—Isaiah 33:24.\n\n“The gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.”—Romans 6:23.\n\n“Everyone exercising faith in him [will] . . . have everlasting life.”—John 3:16.\n\n“You will be with me in Paradise.”—Luke 23:43.\n\nWhat a marvelous outlook for the future! What real purpose lives can now have when anchored to the solid hope that in God’s new world all of today’s problems will forever be things of the past! “The former things will not be called to mind, neither will they come up into the heart.” (Isaiah 65:17) And how comforting to know that life then will be eternal: “God will actually swallow up death forever.”—Isaiah 25:8.\n\nDo you want to live forever in that Paradise new world now so near? ‘What would I need to do to get God’s favor at this world’s end and live on into his new world?’ you may ask. You need to do what Jesus indicated in a prayer to God: “This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”—John 17:3.\n\nTherefore, obtain a Bible, and confirm what you have read here. Search out others who study and teach these Bible truths. Break free from hypocritical religions that teach and do things contrary to the Bible. Learn how you, along with millions of others who are already doing God’s will, can share in God’s purpose that humans live forever on a paradise earth. And take to heart what God’s inspired Word declares about the near future: “The world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever.”—1 John 2:17.\n\nIf you would like further information or a free home Bible study, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit http://www.watchtower.org
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The purpose of life is to find the answer to that question and to fullfill it. If you're a Christian it would be to accept God's gift of salvation and learn to love and devote your life to others.