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What is the purpose of life?

As a non believer I often wonder about this.

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Akfishlady 8 Feb 13
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I have always liked to use the saying of learning, laughing and exploring.

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I gonna Party until they remove me from the respirator. I don't know about you guys.

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I'm somewhere between procreating, no purpose, finding joy, and just a freak occurrence of cells coming together in the right way at the right time. We're here, we may as well do something good. Or I've achieved my major purpose in passing on my DNA, I'm not sure how much use I am now except as a little cog in a big machine.

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to help those around you have a good life

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What you make it. You are the crown of creation. It's up to you.

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I thought I was going to be original here, but it seems as though everyone beat me to the punchline. The purpose of my life is finding that which makes me a better person, more educated person, and a person who understands that finding out I'm wrong about something is equally as valuable as finding out I'm correct about something. (If that doesn't make sense I can explain later.) My purpose is for me to discover and never to impose any part of it on anyone else.

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Technically, it's to reproduce and continue the species, but that doesn't sound all that glamorous, does it? If we were to go beyond that, I'd say that life itself has no inherent meaning, but we can make our own meaning where we see fit. Writing gives meaning to my life and so does the presence of some members of my family.

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To be what you are and to become what you are capable of becoming.

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To suggest purpose , is to suggest intelligent design . There is no god . Bottom Line !

Dougy Level 7 Feb 13, 2018
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Indoor climbing!

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loving laughing learning lolling lilting living.......

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What ever you decide to make it.

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For everyone it's different, but for me, I think it's to experience as much good as I can in this world. Only by doing things and achieving goals do you grow as a person and I think that what really makes people happy is the good experiences in life.

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While I believe that life has no inherent purpose, I decided a long time ago that I would like to have a positive influence in the lives I touch. I do that mainly through my chosen career.

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Many people have put quite sensible answers but what I think is that all those answers are linked by a common denominator, that is to transmit as much of their DNA to the next generation as possible. Making money certainly produces that effect but also making life better for others because you'll be loved by others and they'll help you to survive. Everything converges on leaving copies of our DNA and because there are many ways of doing that, some of them in absolute opposition to one another, then that's why there are so many different answers. What I don't understand is the many people who wrote down No Purpose at all. However even if they think so on a practical level they behave in the best way for them to maximise their chances to leave copies of their DNA.

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