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LOL, if you haven't noticed I've been living under a rock for a while now!
The purpose of life is life itself. God created mankind because he was lonely and it is his desire that all of us enter Heaven when we die and live forever with God. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. The righteous will enter Heaven when they die and they will participate in the resurrection with God and live forever on earth. Zechariah 14:5.
I don't know I've wondered about that 2 and maybe there is no purpose, however for me having no purpose kind of means, well what's the point in living if there's no purpose? I mean I know there are a lot of people that get satisfaction out of getting up eating breakfast go to work come home go to sleep and do it all over again or whatever they do might not be work might be drugs or war or burglary or whatever but it's still just the same old same old everyday routine after routine then if you get tired of that routine you just pick another routine and do that one, kind of monotonous and quite frankly seems very pointless, I just really feel like there has to be something more than that? If not nothing I can do to change it but still.....
The question lacks a context. You have to supply what your context is: "What is the purpose of life on Earth?" or "What is the purpose of life in a high school?" or "What is the purpose of being alive?"
Okay sorry about that if those are my three choices then I choose the third one what is the purpose of being alive?
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Would that entail placing value on my life as it is? What if a person doesn't want to build anything or doesn't have the motivation or determination to be something, then what?
the body produces a unique spirit on each occasion
Thank you! That narrows it down to two things. There are times you will have to choose whether being alive is good, and that is when you simultaneously decide the purpose of being alive. The purpose of being alive is either A. to benefit from the experiences which come with being alive, or B. it is not necessarily to benefit but merely to have experiences. The difference sounds subtle, but its about whether you decide that life is good or not, beneficial or merely something which exists. No one else can provide a context which will define it for you, with few exceptions. If you avoid the decision of whether life is good then you are making the second choice that being alive is merely for the purpose of having experiences. Its a decision that takes several forms you may not immediately recognize and is equivalent to many existential questions like "Why should I go on living?" There's no context until you decide whether life is beneficial or merely an existence. Its just one of those things that involves a perspective and may not have an ontological answer.
okay I think I understand what you're saying here, I'm pretty sure that I have already scratched out a so that leaves me with b, I guess that does at least make me more aware of where I stand however it doesn't bring me a sense of satisfaction hmmmmmm, this is starting to get a little complicated. Thanks for your honest answer this is something I'll have to think about a little more.
You're a beautiful man. Some things are just very awesome or beautiful, and we don't know why. Usually its the smaller things that have purposes and the things we have control over. I think sometimes a purpose would limit what something was, like if you wrote a song in a chaotic way that just turned out great you may not have started out with a purpose for it. If you gave it a purpose you would make it less than it was.