What is Life, Why are we here?

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

What is Life, why are we here? Questions we've all must have asked ourself at some point.

What do you believe is the meaning of life & why are we here?

Please this thread is not to discuss if there is a God or a higher being who over looks us humans.

If you do refer to religion(s) please be mature about it & do not discriminate others for their believes.

Thank you.

 

[Germanicus]

I'm here to exist. End of story. I breathe, take up space and resources, and currently give very little back to society. That's what most of us will end up accomplishing. I live to live.

 

[Shinobi Train]

To kick a** and take names.

If that isn't the reason...well, who knows.

(I do know the reason, but it does have to do with my beliefs)

 

[YowYan]

Life is a means for us to remember again who we are and evolve spiritually. Yeah, that goes ballsdeep.

'The Tiny seed knew that in order to grow..
It had to be dropped in dirt,
covered in darkness,
and struggle to reach the light.'

 

[Hipster Madara]

Everyone makes their own reason to live.

 

[-Carnage-]

i live because i can....

 

['Nāpalm]

I live... because someone somewhere at some point decided to have little science experiment, thus I was created.

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

I understand what you quoted.

But what about you, what do life mean to you?

 

[MacMiller]

Live to ride, and ride to live.

As a fellow classmate of mine would say.. "Hashtag YOLO b*tch!" I myself hate the saying YOLO and swag.

 

[SasoriOfTheRedSaand]

I'm here for one reason and one reason only. Eat lamb chops till' the sun goes down. Maybe the occasional pot but the heck with it.

 

[Yasuko Sayomi]

I live because there's nothing better to do.

 

[Guilty as Sin]

Well Slickback, think about your question.

"Life", as you called it, is independent of man. It exists outside of man. In other words, life happened, happens, and will happen without man.

If life did have a meaning or purpose (which I will now use), then man doesn't determine it, because life existed before man.

If life did have a purpose, and purpose can only be expressed by an agent, and since that agent cannot be man since life already existed before man came to existence, then it stands to reason that some other agent gave purpose to life.

Naturally, this agent cannot have been created, considering the fact that, again, to have been created means to have existed after life, not before it. To have existed after life means to be excluded from giving life purpose, since life happened before us miniscule humans ever decided what to make of it. So it stands that this agent must therefore be life itself (can anything live outside of life? This doesn't make sense). It creates life therefore it, not the arrogant ant that comes after it, decides what purpose is.

So you either believe that this eternal life-giving agent in whom there is life decides purpose, or you reject this and conclude that there is no purpose at all.

Obviously, I am not saying that man cannot and does not reserve the right to give himself purpose. This much is obvious and true. What I am saying is that man does not reserve the right to give life purpose; that simply wouldn't make any sense now would it?

 

[Itachl]

some ppl live cuz they hate, some do cuz they just want to and some ppl think about why they live all day...

 

[Wang]

Well, if you're a pimp, it's hustlin', smack'n hoes, & stack'n dollah bills yall.

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Well Slickback, think about your question.

"Life", as you called it, is independent of man. It exists outside of man. In other words, life happened, happens, and will happen without man.

If life did have a meaning or purpose (which I will now use), then man doesn't determine it, because life existed before man.

If life did have a purpose, and purpose can only be expressed by an agent, and since that agent cannot be man since life already existed before man came to existence, then it stands to reason that some other agent gave purpose to life.

Naturally, this agent cannot have been created, considering the fact that, again, to have been created means to have existed after life, not before it. To have existed after life means to be excluded from giving life purpose, since life happened before us miniscule humans ever decided what to make of it. So it stands that this agent must therefore be life itself (can anything live outside of life? This doesn't make sense). It creates life therefore it, not the arrogant ant that comes after it, decides what purpose is.

So you either believe that this eternal life-giving agent in whom there is life decides purpose, or you reject this and conclude that there is no purpose at all.

Obviously, I am not saying that man cannot and does not reserve the right to give himself purpose. This much is obvious and true. What I am saying is that man does not reserve the right to give life purpose; that simply wouldn't make any sense now would it?

My name is A Pimp Named Slickback.

Thank you for your interesting post.

 

[CoolFoo]

I for one believe we live with a purpose set to fulfill and I have my religious beliefs on this.

 

[Strata Uchiha]

To play a children's card game with my eternal rival.

 

[Makoto]

Everyone asks themselves why are we born and question the meaning of life, but a question no one asks themselves, who are we born for? Think about that.

 

[narutokage99]

What is life? A test.
Why are we here?To worship our creator.

Then? Paradise or Hell.

What is fews 60-70-80 years life? nothing compared to what's next.

 

[Sanguis]

There are those who say life is what you make of it, but in a general answer to 'what is the meaning of life?', it doesn't have one. Life is merely just a very rare beautiful accident (that is of course that you don't have a religious or your own concept).