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What is the purpose of life?

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
Premium Member
I wonder what you believe. Does life have a purpose?
(I come from a non-dual (God and the universe are not-two) perspective and a believer in life after death and reincarnation)

I think the purpose of life is to experience the ride from a feeling of separation and ego-attachment to a feeling of Oneness in total love.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
No "purpose' whatsoever. However, upon reflection, if there were no life then I guess there would be no need for a universe. So there is that.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
I wonder what you believe. Does life have a purpose?
Human life is special. For one thing we are able to ask questions like "Does life have a purpose?" That ability is unique in nature, but that is only one tiny thing. We can imagine an extension of concepts. For example love. We can take physical love and familial love and imagine an extended concept of it. We can imagine love on a universal scale. This a spiritual ability.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Human life is special. For one thing we are able to ask questions like "Does life have a purpose?" That ability is unique in nature, but that is only one tiny thing. We can imagine an extension of concepts. For example love. We can take physical love and familial love and imagine an extended concept of it. We can imagine love on a universal scale.


For what purpose?
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
For what purpose?
That could be purpose enough, but if I were to assign that as the purpose of humanity I would be guessing. Why limit humanity to having a purpose? Maybe we define purposes.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
No "purpose' whatsoever. However, upon reflection, if there were no life then I guess there would be no need for a universe. So there is that.
I wonder why you think there would be no need for a universe if there is no life. I'd like to discuss more about that later.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
But will this give us a true purpose or just a reason to get out of bed every day?
When I get out of bed I don't wonder about my purpose. I wonder about what I have to do next. I also make the moral decision of whether or not to make coffee and breakfast.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
That could be purpose enough, but if I were to assign that as the purpose of humanity I would be guessing. Why limit humanity to having a purpose? Maybe we define purposes.
Most people don't want to die. Which is generally why they go to doctors, recoil from terror, try to escape from death dealing incidents.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
When I get out of bed I don't wonder about my purpose. I wonder about what I have to do next. I also make the moral decision of whether or not to make coffee and breakfast.
Interesting that a good thought or purpose can motivate a person to get out of bed eagerly, assuming he's had enough sleep
 
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