What Is The Purpose Of Life?

in #philosophy8 years ago (edited)

We live on this Earth but is there even a purpose of us sustaining our lives here?

Every day we live in an endless cycle, for some, it may be waking up, eating, going to school then coming back home and sleeping. For others, this could consist of going to work, but although we may have a few altercations in our life, it is the same persistent thing happening.

A deep rooted belief in our culture today revolves around self worth.
Your life is wagered on your worth, this creates a polarity of either high joy or low depression depending on where you're juxtaposed by socieites judgements.

As if its not enough that you are a living breathing result of billions of years of evolution.
You are forced to prove your existence, despite the fact that you've already made it into existence.
It's ironic in this search for meaning, we ask why we exist when we already do exist.

This mentality, that we are born without worth and must spend a lifetime accumulating it, is the most construed idea of them all.
Because of this we are constantly comparing ourselves to our environment trying to evaluate the worth of things in the desperate hope that if we can determine the worth of something maybe we can use it to enhance our own self-worth.

The delusion of worth is grasped by our minds to fill the void of the only rational truth - there is no real purpose in life.
But is this really a bad thing?

Clouds float by with no purpose.
There really is no purpose other than the value we assign to it.
There is no meaning before we apply our thoughts.
Nothing on this planet other than humans exist for a purpose.
No other creature on this planet asks itself "why" it exists.
Why am I held captive to this "why"?

Perhaps, the flaw lies in the question itself.
There is no why, that's how the "why" is a never ending question.

What're your thoughts on purpose?
Thank you for reading!

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I'll definitely have a look!
Thanks for reading

The sole purpose of life is to live and let live. we should not b selfish. so all of you reading this can start following me n upvote my posts. and if you have bitcoins send them to: 3CqCNEox2nfsHPchQzr3DdNBQSXDpGY1Ep because i dont have any. you will never b satisfied with what you have. so learn to let go.

Or we can learn not be greedy haha
Well Good Luck with your mission

no bro m not greedy, we all need some money for our own reasons. m not a kid who is doing all this to buy an xbox or any crapy things....... u gotta check my page. i followed u n upvoted ur contents too....

Have you ever read Pedagogy of the oppressed?
he speaks about how we give define the universe.

Im going to write a post that can correlate this.

I'll have a look into Pedagogy.
If you want you can tag me in your post haha.

To be or Not to be, that us the question....or is it?
If energy cannot be created or destroyed, how can it be or not be?
What is in between being and not being? That is the question.

Energy as science tells us is eternal, so before the big bang there was energy. What was that energy doing before the bang we do not know but there is no doubt that it "Existed". But what does it mean to "Exist" if you cannot "Not Exist"? How can you distinguish or determine that you exist? Because you can speak and breath and interact with, or is it because your manifestation of energy has a beginning and end but the energy does not die it merely transforms into another state.

We also know from Einstein that Time is relative, merely a way of measuring the movements of moving bodies. Therefore, if there is no beginning and no end, whose to say we aren't trapped in a never ending , constantly repeating time continuum in which there is no escape!

Interesting question! For the purpose can be found in being. Simply existing is already the purpose of life. There is nothing to achieve. Watch the animals, they don't run after something and are perfectly happy, just because they are

You had a great post my bro. Your writing is very well. I like it, and it was motivated me.

Best regards,
@arfa followed you

Thank you, that is highly appreciated
I'll check out some of you stuff

You're welcome my bro, its very well. Best for you. :))

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as for me, i would like to leave our Universe better and nicer after me

I'd like to do the same as well :)