The purpose is to be, to gain the experience that is life.
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Purpose of life?
- Thread starter Spirit of Light
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Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
All that matter to me in life is meditation and study dhamma(the teaching) And to be as good as i can to my fianceè. other things that people call normal thing does not interest me
A Vestigial Mote
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And you are perfectly within your rights to make those things your "purpose." Just as I am free not to meditate, not to study "dhamma", and instead make my purpose about raising my children and taking care of my wife, the quest for knowledge, seeking to be the best person I feel I can be and the dispensation of all things superficially considered "spiritual" from my life. We are all free to make such choices - and this necessarily points to there not being any specific "meaning" or "purpose" to life.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Yes ofcourse you are fully in your right to do and have your meaning 
I think you are conflating two things here:
The meaning of life (applicable to everyone).
and
The meaning of an individual's life.
Cooky
Veteran Member
In heaven, there is no evil, so when the Angel's fell, due to their curiosity of evil, God decided that he would make an evil 101 crash course for the humans he was going to create to fill the lost Angel's positions. That crash course is planet earth.
...This way, we can be fully knowledgeable of evil, and never have to be curious.
joe1776
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It's only the word "purpose" that bothers you. I wrote that moral progress was the purpose of life only to answer the question in the OP. But if you had started a thread asking Has evolution given our species a moral direction? I would have given the same answer.
Audie
Veteran Member
What does "spiritually" mean?
Audie
Veteran Member
Cooky
Veteran Member
It's hard to believe that someone is unfamiliar with that term.
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GoodbyeDave
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The purpose of life is to be lived. Why want something more? Why is being alive not good enough for some people?
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Cooky
Veteran Member
What's good enough for you is good enough for you. But not everyone is you.
Cooky
Veteran Member
I got shunned yesterday by a Hellenic Polytheist from London.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Daily life things, earning money, working, party, things like this. I dont have any attachments to it, working is something needed because we need money to live, but i dont think about what i earn, it is just something needed to have food.
There is no purpose to life other than to reproduce. Anything else is personal choice (as, to some extent is passing on your genes). Some may want to help others (in myriad different ways) some may crave authority, some may wish to devote their life to their religious belief. It doesnt matter what it is, he ultimate goal is to continue the species.
BilliardsBall
Veteran Member
I was designed to grow in the grace and knowledge of God, sin stunting such growth, I need to cleanse sin to be growing.
What do you mean by "spiritually?"
Audie
Veteran Member
How will that work out when you cant work?