What is the Purpose of our Life?

[truth seeker]

What is the Purpose of our Life?

The information which is to be shared, may seem to be bit extensive but when you consider the capacity of the human brain and the amount of information that it can store and that it can decipher, then a few pages of information tonight, I’m sure won’t overburden you.
All of you have an equal responsibility and that responsibility is to listen with an open heart and an open mind.
In a world full of prejudice and cultural conditioning, it is very hard to find people that are able to take a moment to think about life objectively. And try to arrive at the truth about this world and the real purpose of our life. Unfortunately, when you ask most people the question what is the purpose of our life, such a fundamental and important question, they will not tell you what they have concluded through observation or analytical reasoning. Rather, in most cases, they will simply tell you what someone else said. Or they will tell you what is commonly presumed by others; what my father says the purpose of life is, what the minister of my Church says the purpose of life is, what my teachers says, what my friends says etc. If I ask anyone about the purpose of eating, why do we eat? Everyone will say in one word or another, its for nutrition because it sustains life. If I ask anyone why they work, they will say because it’s a necessity in order to support themselves and to provide the needs of the family. If I ask anyone why they sleep, why they wash etc. They will answer this is a common necessity for all human beings. We can follow this line of questioning with 100 questions and get same or similar answer from anyone in any language in any place in the world. Simple!
Then I ask you the question, why is it, that when we ask the question, what is the goal and the purpose of life, that we get so many different answers? That’s because people are confused, they don’t really know. They are stumbling in the dark. And rather than to say I don’t know, they just fall for any answer that they have been programmed to answer. Well think about it tonight!
Is our purpose in this world simply to eat, sleep, dress, work, acquire some materials things and enjoy ourselves? Is this our purpose? Why are we born? What is the object of our existence? And what is the wisdom behind the creation of men and this tremendous universe? Think about that question.
Some persons argue that there is no prove of any divine origin, there is no prove that there is a God, there is no proves that this universe has come about for any divine purpose; there are people who argue this way. And they say that perhaps this world came about by chance. A big bang and this whole great world, with all its orchestration just came together. And they argue that life does not have any definite purpose and that there is nothing that can be proven through by the logic or science that there is a God or purpose or any divine reason behind this world.
In the Qur’an it’s mentioned:
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and Allah has power over everything. Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, there are indeed signs for men of understanding, men who celebrates the praises of Allah standing, sitting and lying down on their side and they contemplate the wonders of the creation in the heavens and the earth with the thought, “Our Lord, not for any foolish purpose has thou created all of these. Glory be to thee, give us salvation from the penalty of the hellfire.
Now here in these verses, Allah has mentioned very clearly to us by first drawing our attention to the creation of ourselves, the different postures of the human body, the different attitude of the human psychology. He draws our attention to the heaven, the alternation of the night and the day, the firmament, the stars, the constellation and then He says to us, “He has not created all of these for any foolish purpose”. Because when you see the design of it, you know it that the design of it is very powerful and very precise. And something very powerful and very precise that is beyond your own calculation and imagination, it cannot foolish. It cannot be just thrown together.
If you took 10 marbles and number them 1 to 10 and all of them with different colours and you put them inside of a bag and shook the bag and then closing your eyes reached inside that bag, and I told you, pull out marble number 1 and then marble number 2 and then pull out marble number 3 in order. What’s the chance of your pulling out of these 10 marbles in order? Do you know the chances are? Its 26 millions to 1. So what’s the chance of the heavens and the earth being thrown in a big bang and orchestrated like they are. What’s the chance of that?
My dear respected fellow humans we have to ask ourselves a further question. When you see a bridge, a building or an automobile, you automatically consider the person or the company that constructed it. When you see a plane or a rocket, a satellite or a large ship, you also think about how incredible of a vehicle that it is. When you see a nuclear plant in orbiting space stations or a super international airport, you have to thoroughly impressed with the engineering dynamics that are involved.
Yet, these are just things that are manufactured by human beings. Then what about the human body; with its massive and intricate control system? Think about it.
Think about the brains; how it thinks, how it functions, how it analysis, sort information, retrieves information, distinguishes and categorizes information in a millionth of a second! And does it constantly. Think about the brain for a moment. This is the brain that made the automobile, the rocket. Think about the brain and who made that. Think about the heart how it pumps continuously for 60 or 70 years, in taking and discharging blood throughout the body and maintaining that steady precision throughout the life of that person. Think about it.

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[Caladan]

The purpose of our life is whatever purpose we give it.
the purpose of my life is not found in the Qur'an on my bookshelf, or the New Testament which sits next to it. its nice to be well read in these texts in order to understand our own history, and to appreciate their prose and moral stands. however, they are only partly compatible with real life. or at least not suitable for all people, other people hold Charles Darwin's Origin of Species as a higher authority on the 'purpose' of life, or at least a better indication of how life works.

[JMorris]

i know the purpose of life:

To Write In Big Bold Blocky Underlined Letters

[Kerr]

It is ironic how this text speak of being objective and thinking when it makes a lot of assumptions and treat beliefs as if they where absolute truth.

Also, it is making a few important errors when it speaks of chance. If you look at scientific theories and models they very rarely speak of chance, they speak of very complex systems. It is like you throw a dice, it only appear to be chance to the human eye, but in reality it is not.

[BruceDLimber]

Greetings!

I'd say that IOV our purpose here is twofold:

• As individuals, we're to acquire the spiritual virtues we'll need both here and in the Next Life.
• And in aggregate, we're to carry forward an ever-advancing, spiritually-based civilization.

Best regards! :-)

Bruce

[Just_me_Mike]

The purpose to life is simply to exist.

While on this Earth to do that we need to eat, sleep, and pass bowl movements.

In order to achieve those three things, we need food, a place to sleep, and unclogged intestines.

In order to achieve those, we need to know what food is and how to obtain it, what constitutes a place to sleep that will keep us alive, and proper eating habits.

In order to achieve those, we need a teacher, or something to study like nature.

In order to obtain those, we need sense, like vision, hearing, taste, and so own.

To achieve those we need to be a live.

Now once we leave Earth, there are many ideas, some say we need God to continue, some say we just recycle into this one planet we have here, and feed the cycle of life.

[tumbleweed41]

Originally Posted by itwillend

The purpose to life is simply to exist.

While on this Earth to do that we need to eat, sleep, and pass bowl movements.

In order to achieve those three things, we need food, a place to sleep, and unclogged intestines.

In order to achieve those, we need to know what food is and how to obtain it, what constitutes a place to sleep that will keep us alive, and proper eating habits.

In order to achieve those, we need a teacher, or something to study like nature.

In order to obtain those, we need sense, like vision, hearing, taste, and so own.

To achieve those we need to be a live.

Now once we leave Earth, there are many ideas, some say we need God to continue, some say we just recycle into this one planet we have here, and feed the cycle of life.

Well stated. Frubals.

[Just_me_Mike]

Originally Posted by tumbleweed41

Well stated. Frubals.

Thank you.

[Kilgore Trout]

The closest thing we have to a purpose, is to survive long enough to produce viable offspring - other than whatever purposes we define for ourselves.

[CarlinKnew]

Plastic.

Originally Posted by George somebody

The earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic… *******.