why are we living? what is the purpose of our existance if we all die afterall?
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The purpose of life is to love.
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We are here to make what we can better or at least do no harm. To love our children. Take care of our parents. Respect life of all kinds. To embrace all\nreligions. And I guess to hope that after all is said and done we do end up in a better place.
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Since we as humans perceive our existence as being alive with the mind/brain as the processor of the very same there has to be a fate of design. The majority of the people that inhabit this planets have minds that are poorly programmed and poorly fed.\nThe brain has to make sense of everything or else it malfunctions (mental illness).\nVery few people have a firm enough grasp on the principles of physics and mathematics to grasp how random /chaos behaves and how it makes sense. The default is somewhat elementary belief structures based on limited ability to comprehend.\nAlso, life makes death a certainty within the corporeal sense.\nCurious people always ask about life after death, yet seldom\nquestion whom are what they were prior to being born.\nYour fate is your conception of your existence, the design is your own as well.\nWhatever this existence is, it is all one existence with many facets.\nLive it, enjoy it, why bother questioning it? The only answers you will believe are the ones you understand.\nExplain colors to the blind and laughter to the deaf.
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coz if you die then nothing you're working towards in life is worth bothering with. we only get one chance at life, i believe
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LOL. This is an odd question.\n\nIt's like asking, what is the point of life with death? Why have life then let it die?\n\nDeath comes about because life exists. You cannot have one without the other. Same with destruction. You cannot destroy something that has not been created.
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Whats the goal of the world? Survival.  \n\nWhy we live? life's grand design  \n\nWhy god created us? god created life, and us in his image to have dominion over it  \n\nWhy we go to heaven or hell?  We create heaven or hell on earth by the direct actions we take in our own lives, this is a observable fact.  \n\nOpinions: One persons heaven is anothers hell.  Faith in the afterlife can come by giving ones self to Jesus.  Some religions believe creating hell on earth will guarantee hell in the after life some the opposite.  Example one religion believes you'll get a bunch of virgins to own if you kill the unbelivers.  To me killing people who don't think like you and then taking advantage of a bunch of virgins are both hell on earth and the afterlife.
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the purpose of human death is for you to die. when you die you make room for another to live. your body turns to dirt and dust to feed the earth. beautifully simple isn't it?
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Hi, and thanks for your thoughtful posting. It would be nice if we could all be depended upon to live in peace together. However, bad things happen to good people, and good acts get repaied by evil ones. This is the fallen nature of human beings, we are imperfect and can never be completly "good." \n\nTherefore, if there was an after-life, then were it to be filled with fallen beings like ourselves, it would not be any beter than our world today where genocide, rape, bigotry and the like are regular occurances. \n\nAll world religions except christiantiy have one thing in common. They require the beliver to work for their "redemption" and usually have no assurance of salvation after their death. Bhuddhism is no exception. The eight-fold path to enlightment requires one to act in the example Bhudda set, but give no assurance that this will lead to nirvana or life after death.\n\nChristianity acknowledges we have all fallen short. However, our Lord loved us so much that while we still did not know him, Christ humbled himself and became man. His life was perfect and sinless and his death was a sacrifice for the rest of us. His ressurection is proof that by simply "beliving in him" we can receive the assurance of salavation and life after death.\n\nPerhaps one reason that some Christians are so confrontational is becuase our way does not require the acts or works or sacrcifices that other religions do. We have a tremendous amount of freedom which may lead to hipocracy and poor behaviou. However, do not let the few bad apples turn you away from exploring the truth for yourself.
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Death is the Great Equalizer,and the Bringer of Relief.\nIt is also part of the cycle that all animals on the planet\nare part of-to live is to feed on death.\n Do you want to live forever? Besides,if nobody died the planet would be overpopulated in an unbelievably short time\nto the extent that there would be no open spaces anywhere.\nNo thanks-death may not be fun but it's necessary.
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Because people need to believe that they live for something or else to them its meaningless.  People wanna live forever and believe theres a cause.  That is the ulmtimate question "why are we here?".
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U mean if we are worried about death? Yes, I am, but look at it this way: I can die everyday from a stupidity: hit by a crazy drunk driver, hit in the head by something  thrown from the 10th floor by some fools, just falling down and hitting my head, etc etc etc. If we're to die, we die! Anywhere and anytime. Of course we are worried,its just that we are not worried for ourselves, but for our families and dear ones! If God want the human race extinct, there is not a single thing we can do. So try to be better, kinder and less hateful, that's our chance.
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Because life is too hard a thing to deal with without the comforting idea of a higher power.\n\nWhat would be the explanation for suffering?\nWhat would be expected after death?\nWhat would be the sense of existence?\nWhat would moral be based on?\nHow would have everything begun?\n\nToo much for an average human to bear. \n\nThey prefer to deal with fantasies than to deal with reality. \n\nReality: \nSuffer has no explanation. \nLife is neutral. \nYou´re not going anywhere when you die, just fusion with the whole. \nNo one made us: we are just byproducts of the complex mesh that is called universe, and evolution, and natural selection. \nExistence, has no sense at all. \nMoral, will depend only on your sense of good and bad (actually very few atheists -if any- are amorals).\n\nTerrifying, isn´t it?\n\nThat´s why religious people would rather die than accepting the non-existence of their God.\n\nAnd that´s just fine! Childish though, in my point of view...\n\nGood question.
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I think we all have a purpose in life. Life is an opportunity to improve the human race. We all have a chance to revolutionize the world. We can live life while making others have a hard time living theirs or we can help others enjoy life as well.  I think everyone lives for other people they care about. Anyone who lives for only themselves is just sick. Who said life is just one great vacation. Problems come with the package. Humans need to talk about their issues. If we don't , all of us would be angry people. How can we enjoy life like that?
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To give life.\n\nThe Meaning of Life is the answer to this question:\n\nGod, what is Your purpose of Existence?\n\nFor God's purpose of Existence itself defines the purpose of all that exists.\n\nI asked God that question...\n\nGod answered, "My purpose of Existence is To give life. Since you are made in My image after My likeness, then YOUR purpose of existence is to give life."\n\nEverything that exists is an expression of God's thinking; thus, everything reflects God's thinking.\n\nGod gives life by His unique existence, and receives life when He gives life. All of existence gives life by its unique existence to that which receives life from its unique existence. This is Nature - the union of all living (eternal) things.\n\nYou are here to give life by your unique existence to that which receives life from your unique existence. So do what you love that nourishes those who love what you love.\n\nThis is your purpose.
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I have also nearly died a bunch of times.\n\nI've spent a long time thinking about this and read a bunch of books. I'm not sure there is a real reason except to live happy and help others to live happy.\n\nIt sounds so simple and stupid, but we have to enjoy being alive (the near death expeirences were possible reminders that we took life for granted).\n\nTake extreme pleasure in the simple things. Freinds and family are all that really matter because money and all that other junk is just temporary.
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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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why else would you be alive?