Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What is our purpose?“, Leave a Reply below!
Can you handle the TRUTH?
A man was super successful by his and any material measure, good looking, loved by many women, influential, rich, and had everything except peace of mind.
He needed to know the answer to the question:
“What is life”
Not to be denied, he sold everything, set up his kids, took care of his wife and having divested himself of all but what was absolutely necessary he embarked on a journey.
He traveled to South America, to the Middle East, to … well everywhere … seeking the answer to his question.
Finally he was directed to a place at the foot of a giant peak in the Himalayas and was told to climb and eventually there he would find a Guru who would answer the question
“What is life?”
He started and continued and continued and continued and did so for days, until he was near death with exhaustion,at which time he came upon a grotto in which sat a man dressed in rags, impervious to the elements or anything and apparently everything
… but deep in contemplation.
Near death, gasping for air and in great pain, the man looked upon the Guru …. and at that very moment, the Guru looked at him …..
The man was gasping and in agony when the Guru, at last, asked a question:
“Yes my son?”
The man still in great pain but deeply appreciative of recognition, then respectfully acknowledged and then asked the Guru,
“Guru, Oh Guru, .. I need to know the answer to the question: ‘WHAT IS LIFE?”
.. to which the Guru thoughtfully replied,
“My son, .. LIFE is a fountain.”
The man moaned and began to sob ..
“You mean” he said, “that I have forsaken all that was precious to me .. my children, my wife, home and .. life .. so to find the answer to the question What Is Life? .. and now that I am here and dying and half mad you tell me .. “LIFE IS A FOUNTAIN!”
The Guru then opened his eyes ever wider and with genuine passion says,
“YOU MEAN THERE’S MORE?”
I guess you had to be there!
There is no purpose. When we think of purpose we always thing with respect to us but not nature. No other animal think about its own purpose. Because it is unnecessory. This nature will and can function without us. It does not require us.
Saying that, the only “purpose” of us to just live and let other live. Don’t harm to any one or any thing. Because you are not diffrent from any other.
Individually we are multipurpose. As many as the number of us, possibly.
The Grand Purpose is Love.
I don’t think it’s a proper question to ask. But if you had to ask it on some level of biology or humans as living things, the most basic purpose is for life to gain and keep values. But in the case of humans even that is a choice.
There’s no purpose at the level of the human species. That would imply a God of some kind that created human beings for a purpose as though they were a hammer or something.
Each person has to choose the goals and values to give their own life purpose.
From a evolutionary perspective, to promulgate the species. From an individual perspective, to understand as much as we can about existence.
We each have our purpose, we each must discover our purpose in our own time or not. Finding our purpose can put the mind at ease set our feet on a direct path to greater fulfillment.
The question implies that there is a common purpose for all of us. Outside of religion, I doubt that you would get the same answer twice. Two of the people interviewed were Baha’i. It is a new, independent religion that believes in world peace, equal rights for all races and both genders, that all of the religions came from the same God, and that there is only one God. We believe that people have mis-used religion to the point that many are disillusioned by it. Religion should be the source of harmony between people, and if it is not, then it is preferable not to have religion. The Baha’i faith says our purpose is to Love God… but taken in context, this means loving his creation which includes the people around us, and the Earth itself.
i think everyone has a different purpose but it all should lead to a higher society and more understanding as to colonize the universe and try to find the big answers