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We all have a purpose, I believe in that.
Yes, I believe we are all born with a purpose. It is programmed in our heads and we have to find it out. We get help along the way, but we can choose not to live the life we were destined to live.
I believe in the purpose as well. I also believe in fate. Think about it, what are the odds that we are in the exact moment that we currently are now? All the people you are friends with right now and the time period out of all the possibilities.
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
What are you trying to say? What about those who don't believe in God and the Commandments?
What about kids who are killed before they have a chance to do anything with their life?
What about those who do?
Okay, take a deep breath and let it out slowly . . . . . .
The purpose of life is to live it to the max, and when you die to arrive at the pearly gates with an entirely used up body and exclaim to St Peter "Wow! What a ride!"
On a more serious note, now. Life is to be lived by the individual. That is the purpose, to live life – not to just exist.
I am what is considered by most to have reached the age of Senior Citizenship. I enjoy all the beauty of my surroundings, all the wonders of nature, and all the things that Mankind has accomplished and is accomplishing each and every day.
Treat others as you would have others treat you.
Just my not-so-humble opinion.
Why are they supposed to fear their god?
fear as in reverence
Reverence is not anything like fear.
Reverence: honor or respect felt or shown, a gesture of respect (a bow).
I've always thought the phrase god-fearing was hilarious personally. If people who worship any deity examined the teachings of their prophets, then it looked to me more like a teacher was at work, and not a tyrant. I don't remember being afraid of my teachers.
If anything they were afraid of me.
Fear has more than one definition and I am referring to number 3 which defines the word as "reverential awe."
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fear
transitive verb
1 archaic : frighten
2 archaic : to feel fear in (oneself)
3 : to have a reverential awe of <fear God>
4 : to be afraid of : expect with alarm <fear the worst>
That is why Flacco, we need more police.
This is what I don't get. Most religions say you can confess your sins and you will be forgiven and everything. What about those who have amnesia or Alzheimers who can't remember most of the stuff they did? They don't have a chance to repent and stuff.
Not every kid who dies does so because of some sort of purposeful criminal event. In fact, very few do.
"Terrible thing to live in fear" – Red
The purpose of life is life itself. No more. No less.
Here is the answer:
There is no centrally planned purpose for life as a whole and each individual has their own purpose.
You may not be satisfied with my answer because you were probably looking for some universal set of rules for everybody to live by. But this answer completely true, and there is simply nothing beyond that.
If a religion sounds fishy, it probably is.
My brother and his girlfriend miscarried their first baby. It would have been my very first nephew/niece. However, I do not believe that he, they found out it was a boy, died in vain and I know he is in a better place. You could even say he was blessed because he missed the pain and sorrow of this world and went straight to the good stuff.
Christianity says that you are already forgiven, no matter what you do. That does not mean that you have to ask for forgiveness to receive it, but merely acknowledge that you are a fallen human being who messes up and then accept, not ask for, God's forgiveness.
It is interesting to see all of the opinions on life from such a diverse group of individuals. I, however, offer only this humble and very personal answer: life is a treasured gift and always has been, but as the state of the world proclaims, there is something very wrong with how we live. It is not up to me to tell people how they are supposed to think so all I will say is, do you agree that, when you look around you, there is supposed to be something different going on?
The entire world is so corrupt that even though the sun shines bright upon it the world is still a very very dark place. I'd say our purpose is to stand up and fight for whats right. Let your internal light shine bright and light up the dark places in the world that the sun cant. Life is a gift. Promote it and protect it.
The purpose of a calculator is to calculate. The purpose of a tree is to thrive and procreate. We humans are an odd mix of artefact and organism so our purpose is likewise an odd mix but generally I would say our purpose is to do all we can with what we have, if you do anything less than this you're not doing being human right. I leave aside issues of religion, this applies regardless of whether you are religious or an atheist. Joy and contentment (two very different but equally awesome sensations) can and do stem from realising potential.
'fight for what's right' as a purpose for life just opens up a pile of other questions regarding what 'right' is. Nothing wrong with that just sounds a bit like answering a question with another question. Do agree with your last two statements though.
To be an individual human being is to be member of a remarkably social species, as such individual purpose to a greater or lesser degree will incorporate this aspect of our character. At the very least one will wish to promote the well-being of one's loved ones, for some this is a very large group but for most of us, when we are really honest about it, this boils down to a relatively small group of friends and relatives. Their loved ones are unlikely to be the same list as your own so in order to promote their well-being one cannot help but promote the well-being (in a secondary manner) of what can become a vast number of others. So we all share a common purpose (increasing the well-being of our loved ones) though of course the means of achieving this will inevitably conflict with the means used by others hence we look to be following different purposes, when in fact we simply differ in means.