Mature atheists only...?

Thanks for this question. I've answered it before. ..
Basically, we all make our owns beds.
I made by bed with no assistance from a judge-mental charlatan who wants money to tell me how to live......

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
-- Joseph Campbell

“The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of ‘ultimate purpose’ and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.
- Paul Kurtz

Atheism is only for mature adults.

Purpose is whatever aware agents decide it is. There is no inherent "objective" purpose, it's a concept in your mind.

What is the purpose of a rock? Is being a paperweight its purpose? Is bashing someone's skull in its purpose? Is being a nice statue its purpose? You decide!

And it works exactly the same with your life.

I don't think it has a purpose, at least not in the sense that you mean.

If I had to pick a purpose, I'd say my purpose is to raise my kid and take care of my family.

The same as all life, to survive and breed, in basic terms.
However we are so successful at that we now have the problem of breeding beyond our resources, we have already triggered a mass extinction of other species. So our success has the added responsibility of making sure we will have a viable biosphere for future generations.

As far as my personal existence goes, it's mostly family and work.

Why does life have to have a purpose? Humans, just like any other living thing, simply fill a niche in the planet's ecosystem (or at least we used to). There is no great mystery, we're here because our parents had sex and created us.

I am here (and have been for over 65 years) to spread joy and laughter to as many people as I can.

"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" - Auntie Mame

Our lives have no purpose other than to reproduce and evolve and everything else is what we have added to it from our advances in technology and society. My personal purpose is to do whatever I can to make the world a better place for my children and to leave them with fond memories of my life. Hope this helps.

Could it be that we are an experiment in some super higher intelligence that plays around with different life forms,and their existence and survival,is just a matter of research in some other senior high school in a far off galaxy,who knows ?

The purpose of human life is to pass your genetic information on to your offspring to perpetuate the species.
The purpose I set for myself is to grow and learn. Experience the universe in the finite time I have. To nudge humanity in the direction of knowledge over superstition.

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Love, life and the pursuit of happiness.

Why does everything require a predestined purpose? Wouldnt that idea itself make every decision useless anyway? Humans ARE nature. The most advanced organism that found a way to survive a universe constantly trying to kill us. Thats pretty amazing.
In addition to that, figure this. If aliens looked down on earth, they would probably see humans as a cancer on a beautiful organism. We spread, we kill, we destroy, we pollute. Humans are arguably the very worst thing that ever happened to this planet. A disease bent on replication and self destruction. I dont think the creator myth, all of us in its image fits that bill.
Further more, as a species we find ways to justify every single horrible act we commit. Be it religion, circucmstance, or what have you. Think about all that the next time some a**hole in a dress tells you that you are better than me and saved.

There is no ultimate purpose to anything.. Purpose is what we make of it.. Take a rock for example.. The rock by itself has to real purpose.. on a windy day you place a rock on a piece of paper it's purpose becomes to hold the paper. tie it to the end of a stick it becomes a club or axe.. We are no different.. your purpose today can be to provide for your family, once your family it grown and out of the house your purpose can be to help others.. or just be happy yourself.. Purpose is what WE assign to it.. it's ours!

My life has no objective meaning, I decide what my life means myself. My personal view is that we are all interconnected like a web with a cause and effect relationship driving our life at all times. I may not know you personally, but I bet if I trace back far enough we are connected somehow, either through a mutual friend or a distanced relationship. The connections could be far or very close, but all humans are in the web and I think it is important to remember we are all in the web together. So that being said, working to fix our problems and insure the "web" isn't destroyed is of vital important, to me at least

There is no intrinsic purpose to anything. Purpose is a man-made concept.

The purpose of my personal existence is what I choose it to be. To live, love and learn; to invent things; to make music with friends; to make the world a little better if I can, or at least not make it any worse.

Now I have a question. If there is a god, then what do you believe is the purpose of it?

Depends on what you mean by "purpose". Biologically it's to reproduce. Socio-economically it's to better society. Personally, I want to be happy.

The purpose of my life is to live it...

and to live it in the best way I can... which includes but not limited to, family, education, wonderment, charity and treating others as I would like to be treated and doing no harm.

IMHO

Drink.

Dude I'm gettin fit shaced already with the "purpose" questions. All I need is a "u so immoral widdout goddy tellin u what to do" question n I'm unconscious!!!

I don't think life, in terms of the species or the individual, needs to have some grand purpose.

The purpose of life is life.

My purpose (a purpose which is self-generated), is to learn, to pass along wisdom and knowledge, to love and to live, and to ensure that my children will survive to pass along my genes.

I don't think there is a "purpose," I think it's just what we as individuals make it and a purpose can change throughout life alongside what's important to us and what we choose to devote our lives to.

Things can exist without any purpose whatsoever, purpose is only given by something with a mind, like we might use a rock for hitting something, until then it didn t have a purpose.

I believe the purpose of my life is have a purpose. That may (almost certainly will) change over time. a 15 year old, a 30 year old, a 70 year old will all think about school, family, love, death, etc, differently

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what? she's 29...allegedly

Propegate

there is no "if", and there is no "purpose"

the only thing there "is" is the life you have, so make the most of it

The purpose in my life is to live it as I see fit with as much kindness and integrity as possible. In my mind there is no god and therefore I am free from false morality and have need to live in fear.

If the most lowest of animals can find a purpose in life why is it that you can not without a belief in one of the thousands upon thousands of gods mankind has created and worshipped? It seems to me that one is quite needy if they can not do so in their own mind and in life itself.

then what do you believe is the purpose of human life?

- L-I-F-E.

And, what do you see as the purpose of your personal existence?

- To leave this world a little better than i found it.

To annoy Christians on Yahoo of course.

Hello,McFly!
Your question is an oxymoron!