<p>My purpose is to be happy and live a generally happy life and have the freedom to do what I want responsibly.</p>
<p>And to make babies</p>
<p>ChoklitRain's dream</p>
<p>Eh. Not sure what a cognitivist is. Sorry. And I'm not smart enough to understand what the "cognitivism" article in wikipedia is saying. haha</p>
<p>This is totally stupid and clearly unscientific, but I choose to believe that life has a purpose because I want it to. </p>
<p>I am somewhat of a religious person, and I believe in God and so forth, but I'm looking for something other than "to honor God" and etc, even if that is his purpose. </p>
<p>Sorry I'm being very vague about everything Moodrets. When I get inspiration for the correct articulation of my ideas, you'll be the first to know ;)</p>
<p>I know someone is going to flame me for all of this, but whatever.</p>
<p>^The thing is, if you decide upon a purpose for your life, what the hell are you supposed to do once you "fulfill your purpose"? Kill yourself? Keep on living without a purpose? Make a new one? It just doesn't make sense. If you keep making new purposes for your life, then your life never had a purpose at all - maybe you had a purpose for each week of your life, each year, whatever, but how anyone can say that their life has an actual purpose is beyond me.
(and no, I don't want to hear things like 'MY LIFE'S PURPOSE IS TO PROCREATE' please)</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/</a> =P</p>
<p>edit: why isn't there a delete option?</p>
<p>Hypothetically,</p>
<p>If one's purpose does not have an end (like helping other people through means of x, y, and z) then you have a lifetime goal. </p>
<p>But then the question is that if that goal is indefinite, can it ever be reached?</p>
<p>I guess not. But if a person is satisfied with their life, they have, in theory, found their purpose? </p>
<p>I don't know. I'm just rambling at this point. Ignore me if you want.</p>
<p>Ban reproduction and adopt. You’re a murderer for bringing your child into this deadly “sin-sick” world! There is no point besides your selfish pedophilic excuse for serenading oedipal lust. Could you imagine how peaceful the world would if everyone on earth vowed not to have another baby and the human species becomes extinct? Too bad souls still need to fizzle out their karmic fuse~</p>
<p>From the Buddhist perspective, if there was an ultimate goal such as enlightenment and your purpose was to be compassionate, you would never rest completely until all beings on the planet were enlightened, so the purpose is philanthropically perpetual. You can conceptually condense the entire big picture into a sentence, “what next if we achieved every purpose?” but the process of reaching your goals will be drawn out long enough to consume your entire lifetime haha ironically, “what is the point if we can’t achieve every purpose while racing against the clock? How do I know if what I’m doing is cosmically productive?” But you will be able to experience more and judge for yourself in the next life and so on. It would be less meaningless for life lessons to sink in slowly rather than have every purpose quickly accomplished, getting the whole point of living on the edge of discovery over and done with. </p>
<p>If you were to attain enlightenment, knowing the suffering you’ve liberated from should be enough to keep you grateful for awhile… and if you regress back to an incarnation it makes me think, what if I was a “fallen angel” likewise apes evolve into civilized men who pursue enlightenment? Would “purpose” be cyclical? If you believe in rebirth/reincarnation, it makes sense for our lifetimes to be reset and for our lessons to be experienced in different intervals so we don’t get overwhelmed by detailed memories… how clearly can we remember things we did years ago let alone our past lives? (although you may remember axiomatic principles of what you’ve learnt). Eh projecting my own interpretative stab in the dark since truth is relative and I can pretty much believe whatever satisfies my personal sense of meaning and productivity.</p>
<p>Even if the fulfillment of our purpose keeps being reset with each new birth, that doesn’t mean there absolutely isn’t a universal purpose “key to happiness” all beings will grow up to search for. I personally believe in accumulative karma, which doesn’t discount the significance of your past lives. If you adopt that perspective, everything you do counts in determining your future. Even if you’re not into metaphysics that is simply true for your current existence on earth. My purpose is learn and grow in happiness and compassion. </p>
<p>I don’t think it’s any more absurd than speculating about ever reaching absolute complacency in terms of every sentient entity reaching enlightenment/heaven at the same time and getting bored. I think such enlightened beings will always have a cause to fight for- there will always be someone else’s purpose to evaluate outside your own.</p>
<p>Dictator of the Universe! My two friends have dibbs on earth.</p>
<p>Agnosticism, humanism, existentialism.</p>
<p>Forms…</p>
<p>Pwnage.</p>
<p>revised from “no.maybe”</p>
<p>win.</p>
<p>to ceaselessly win in pokemon and cookies</p>
<p>Uh… depends on each person actually.</p>
<p>many people think that their purpose of life is to be successful - the typical image of a millionaire or a billionaire, with a huge manson and a beautiful/handsome wife/husband.</p>
<p>to many others, their aim is to do philanthropist work, either directly(join the red cross) or indirectly(create a cure for cancer)</p>
<p>or for those who are evil, may want to dominate the world >:) </p>
<p>but in my opinion, my purpose is to be happy and live with no regrets :)that’s good enough :D</p>
<p>My purpose as of now is to get into college and get a job. And then be happy.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with the word “purpose,” but I think the best way I can contribute to society, and ultimately to the world, is through literature which is why I want to become a writer.</p>
<p>[The</a> Purpose of Life](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYLdFE7s9Y]The”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYLdFE7s9Y)</p>
<p>Nice…and so it begans the series of necros.</p>
<p>Well, I believe in God, but I don’t believe my only purpose on earth is to honor him. I feel that my purpose is to make a positive difference in the world, which I intend to do through medicine or biotechnology.</p>
<p>to each his own…</p>
<p>^Wow, I agree completely with the positive contributions and beliefs:)</p>
<p>Every human beings’ natural purpose in life is to transfer their genes on to offspring. It’s natural and instinctive. </p>
<p>It’s nice to know that feminists are in fact insane and fortunately don’t produce baby feminists. (Note: I’m not talking about people who fight against sexism, I’m just referring to your typical man haters.)</p>