What is our purpose in life?

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If our only reason for being is to strive for everlasting life in heaven, how can we derive meaning and purpose out of this life?

 

[Spiderman]

You and you alone determine your purpose.

Personally I do not believe in the afterlife.

 

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You and you alone determine your purpose.

Persoanlly I do not believe in the afterlife.

I find it difficult to believe in an afterlife. I simply cannot grasp the concept of forever…never to end.

 

[koshergrl]

Do you deny the existence of everything you have difficulty grasping?

 

[Chuckt]

You and you alone determine your purpose.

Persoanlly I do not believe in the afterlife.

I find it difficult to believe in an afterlife. I simply cannot grasp the concept of forever…never to end.

It either always existed or it was created.

God always existed so therefore He will always be eternal.

 

[BreezeWood]

the OuterWorld of the Everlasting is where we came from and may return, or not - the Everlasting is Eternal, the Spirit may survive for however long it is able to.

 

[Katzndogz]

You and you alone determine your purpose.

Persoanlly I do not believe in the afterlife.

I find it difficult to believe in an afterlife. I simply cannot grasp the concept of forever…never to end.

Do you also have a problem with an infinite universe - that's CURVED?

 

[koshergrl]

And who said that our only purpose in life was to strive for everlasting life after death?

This thread belongs in philosophy. It's not about religion.

 

[cereal_killer]

You and you alone determine your purpose.

Persoanlly I do not believe in the afterlife.

I find it difficult to believe in an afterlife. I simply cannot grasp the concept of forever…never to end.

Because of the stigma attached to the "afterlife" It's been hijacked by religion and religious groups.

 

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Do you deny the existence of everything you have difficulty grasping?

I may find it difficult to grasp the notion we evolved from apes but I do not deny the possibility.

 

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This thread belongs in philosophy. It's not about religion.

Heaven is afterlife.

 

[boedicca]

If our only reason for being is to strive for everlasting life after death, how can we derive meaning and purpose out of this life?

You are making a false assumption that striving for everlasting life after death is the only reason for life.

Life itself is a reason (personally, I believe self aware life is the universe's way of understanding itself). So, making the most of one's life HERE ON EARTH is a perfectly valid purpose.

 

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From a Christian standpoint, it seems our only purpose for being is in the service of God and our behavior in this life determines our destiny in the next.

 

[koshergrl]

Do you deny the existence of everything you have difficulty grasping?

I may find it difficult to grasp the notion we evolved from apes but I do not deny the possibility.

So you admit to bias.

Good for you.

 

[koshergrl]

This thread belongs in philosophy. It's not about religion.

Heaven is afterlife.

You maintain you don't believe in heaven, and you didn't mention heaven in the op.

You aren't discussing religion. You're discussing your philosophy of life.

 

[pacer]

It was not my intention to be philosophical. I was speaking of heaven.

 

[koshergrl]

You don't believe in heaven.

 

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It depends on my mood.

 

[koshergrl]

Your question isn't about heaven, or religion. It's about the purpose of life in the absence of heaven, and God.

Which is a philosophical discussion.

 

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It is about heaven.