[pmh383388]

What is the purpose of our life ? To enjoy ? To suffer ?

[Marily]

God is the giver of all life, maybe if you ask Him He might answer you

[LadyB]

I believe we have no ultimate, divine purpose, that we just are. Others believe differently. It's therefore quite subjective.

Are you asking just out of curiosity for others points of view or are you searching for your own path?

[cal823]

The answer is something to do with magnets, chocolates, and neckties.
Seriously now, you shouldn't ask "why are we here" a better question is "why am i here"
Becausei don't believe we all have one collective purpose that is within our understanding, yet you can find your individual meaning and calling in god.

[Superfly999]

I agree with cal, you have to find your OWN meaning of why you were born. There may however be a reason why we are all born "purpose of the human race"; but I believe that the more important is the "why I am born" because if you find YOUR purpose in life you can move on from there and help others find their purpose and live your life moving towards that goal and living happy.

[Wangdoodle]

Just something that I have found very interesting is that when one views the life on Earth. Vegetation, insects, and animals. Just about, if not all, life has one big driving goal behind them. Which is to reproduce. The other goal is of course to remain alive.

[robertsqueen]

I believe that we are here to learn... and to love. We are here to experence life and find out what makes us tick.

[talaniman]

I am here because God said so.

[Clough]

I am here because God said so.

Me too!

[magprob]

I'm here simply because my fathers ship was in port and my mother was a waitress in a small San Diego café. He did what any good sailor would do... he swabbed her poop deck.

[kt1205]

I think there is no reason why we are here. Escpessially since we all die. There can't be a reason unles it's to suffer

[firmbeliever]

What is the purpose of our life ? To enjoy ? To suffer ?

A muslim believer point of view...

The Almighty Creator,Lord of the worlds gave us a life for a purpose and for a set time.
To see whether we would remember Him and His favours and be thankful and live up to the guidelines set.

Each person has their joys and sufferings and during each of these times it is up to us whether we are thankful for blessings, hopeful for mercy and wish for a greater reward in the afterlife. Suffering is not to be taken as a burden and in turn be ungrateful for the favours we do have, to pray for respite is expected of the believers.

When blessings are heaped on us like wealth etc we are expected to be generous with it as it is a blessings from the Almighty and being greedy is not expected of us (not to say we should not spend on our families as the Almighty says that the food that the husband provides for the wife and family is also counted as a good deed when it is earned the right way).

Each person has their roles set as leaders,parents,children, siblings,teachers, students,rulers etc and all are expected to be just and must fulfill their roles best as they can and the Almighty will be the Judge.

Our purpose in life is not to suffer or enjoy but to live life with joy and patience and to not set up partners with the One and Only Creator, to be always prepared to meet the Lord of the worlds.

:) :) :)

[cal823]

i think there is no reason why we are here. escpessially since we all die. there can't be a reason unles it's to suffer

that you think that makes me want to cry.

seriously mate, life has so much meaning!
trust me. Life is good. You have to find your meaning, find your calling mate. God has a plan for you.
life is short yeah, but an eternal life would be meaningless, if we lived forever the way we are, itd just drag oooon and ooooon and ooonn and thered be no urgency about anything, no reason to do anything, because ud have forever to do it. You'd just go numb after awhile, and after a few hundred years, you'd kill yourself, just for the sake of getting out of the endless sameness and boredome.
value your life, treasure every second, because time is so valuable! Life is so valuable!
water seems meaningless to us, but I betcha it sure means something to third world kids.

there's so much you can do in your life mate. So much potential.

when I feel the pain, the pleasure in life is made so much sharper and so much more valuable!
when I feel cold, warmth is such a better thing!
when I'm thirsty, water tastes so good!
when I'm lonely, a hug is the best thing in the world!

[excon]

What is the purpose of our life ? To enjoy ? To suffer ?

Hello pmh:

To propagate. Your enjoyment or suffering doesn't enter into the equation.

excon

[cal823]

That's a very sterile and sad view of the world excon "our purpose is to make babies"
Its also illogical.
Why make a baby, if its only purpose is to make a baby which is only alive to make another baby which has only the purpose of making babies?
What's the point?
There's got to be more meaning and purpose to it than that, when I think of it, its actually and insane idea of purpose, the universe is more logical than that!

[Capuchin]

I agree with excon, we are born so that we can give birth to others and then die. That's perfectly logical.

However, there's a lot of time between that we can fill with all kinds of things, like physics, religion, or table tennis.

[cal823]

Table tennis is pretty meaningless.
So is reproduction as a sole purpose.
There's got to be other purposes, reason for each life.
If we follow your theory of "we exist to screw so that babies can be made"
Then thered have to be a reason for those babies to be made, for it to be logical.
Thered have to be either 1# more purpose for each life than reproduction
Or
2# a single life, down the line, at which all this reproduction is aimed at (like I'm having a baby so he can have a baby (etc etc etc) so he can have a baby, who will father this one special guy who has a purpose to his life)

Babies just to make more babies is illogical, unless there's more too it than that.

[excon]

whats the point?

Hello cal:

Perpetuation of the species.

We run into trouble when we think we're important enough to HAVE a purpose.

excon

[Capuchin]

Table tennis certainly isn't meaningless, it makes you more agile, which means you catch a guy who was trying to pickpocket you, which means you didn't lose all your money, which means you could buy a better car, which means you attracted a more attractive mate, which means you made genetically superior babies. And then you die.

Everything we do is ultimately aimed at making more and better babies. Everything that all animals do has exactly the same motive.

[NeedKarma]

My purpose is to help my kids grow up to be good people so I guess I follow excon's and Capuchin's theory. Before I had kids I enjoyed life by dating, travelling and learning... all to get laid. But seriously folks...