Does everything have a Purpose?

Everything that is living, that is. Everything that breathes the invisible oxygen. I have wondered if it is possible for a human being to get through life without purpose. Is it possible, my fellow viners? Speak your mind. Do animals have a purpose in life? Is it their purpose to reproduce and multiply? If animals have a purpose, what is it? I'd love to know. What is the purpose of being human? What is the purpose behind being born from the womb and opening our eyes to the world around us?

The only real purpose there is to life is the one you give it.

Yes. Everything has purpose.

One can not live without purpose no matter if that purpose of for the right reasons or wrong reasons. Love and Fear are the things that give us Purpose, and make us human.

Balance (Chaos and Order) is what gives the Universe Purpose. We all have a reason to live, we are all destined to die.

Essentially we Exist because we have Purpose.

Yes.

Everything has a purpose. God says do.

We are defined by our choices. Our choices give us purpose.

Our lives are not our own, so long as our choices effect other people.

Hope so but also

destiny and fate isn't real. your future is ased on decisions.

Decisions are based on instinct and emotions that we have no control over.

When you really think about it, there is no point to anything. There is no end goal in the universe that all living things are working towards. As far as I know - we live, we die, and do what we want, or have experiences forced upon on us, in between those two events.

The only real, end-game purpose I can think of is immortality, because then you defeat death. There isn't any purpose after that, but then you can do whatever you want forever and ever. But that's pretty unrealistic.

Everything dies. You, me, our entire universe. If nothing else, everything has the purpose to die.

@darkscarecrow: I don't presume to know the design of whatever transcendental ego created all of this, but personally, no. I'm not sure what the purpose of Youngbloodwas; it was clearly not meant to be art, and I don't remember it being a great liquid asset for any collector back then since the then-neophyte Image oversaturated the market with everything it published. I'm trying to pull a rationale out of my hat, but nope... just coming up blank.

I believe the quote you are trying to reference from the Matrix.

The purpose of life is to end.

Nah, more like Hickman's New Avengers theme :p

@humanrocket: Yea well he copied!

Someone (in this case it can yourself) has to give you a purpose, like a creator does it with the tool he has invented. Many families have children for the purpose of passing their legacy (or avoiding social pressure), but we with our free will, can give a purpose to our paths and because they define us, they give us a purpose to ourselves.

@humanrocket: LOL.

@monsterstomp: But it's your decision to act on those emotions.

everything has a purpose as long as we give it one it's really that simple.

Only you can decide that. As long as a single human is willing to live and survive, then yes everything has a purpose.

No, its your instinct to act on those emotions.

You may want to act on them but it is your decision to do what you do.

@hylian: Choice is a delusion :)

@monsterstomp: It's your choice to be delusional :D

We can't control what we believe... Just sayin'

But we do

@hylian: Pfft. Nope.

@monsterstomp: PFFFFFFFTTTTTT. yes we do

@hylian: Pfffft. Are you saying that if you restarted life (without knowledge of going back in time), you'd be in a different place than you are now?

@monsterstomp: We can believe in what we want depending on what we learn

@hylian: And what we learn is based on choice, which we have no control over :D

@monsterstomp: But we choose what we want to learn :D

Even is somebody dies without ever accomplishing anything, they were still somebody's son or daughter, which serves a purpose. Therefor, everything has a purpose, depending on your definition.

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@monsterstomp: how do we have no control over our emotions or actions?

How do we?

Are you actually a retard or are you trolling? I can't tell.

Perhaps a too complex question to answer. Initially every living or non living thing in existence seems to have one, either for keeping universal balance or for natural, or satisfying the demand of time, but if you keep questioning yourself you will get to a point where there is none whatsoever, or we haven't discovered it yet. So yeah, as of yet the best possible answer is it totally depends on you, everything has a purpose if you want to give it one, nothing has if you don't.

Yes. I've always found it intriguing how there seems to be everything lined up so perfectly for how the universe works.

That sounds like a rather nihilistic view. Or are you more of the carpe diem point of view?

I prefer to think of life as a window of opportunity to experience, well, life, and nature, and all these sorts of things. It's not something one should give up, because it's actually a privilege in many ways.

Probably, it's just sometimes that purpose is pointless.

@juliedc: Purpose is never pointless because everything pointless does not have purpose.

I've always used John Lennon's definition:

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans!"

All things have a purpose.

......except for standardized testing

No. Purpose is a concept, an idea we create to explain why things function but it is subjective.

Many decisions that will be or have been made by other people meaning it's not in our direct control, i.e. destiny and fate. There's no blueprint that maps out every possible scenario but the many of the options are offshoots of decisions that outer forces have predetermined through their own actions. If life was a game, it wouldn't be fixed but no one would get to start on a fresh board either. Pieces are constantly moving between every decision that is made.

That's circular logic. That's like saying: "Life is never death because everything dead is not living." You presume that purpose is fixed or constant, which it is not. Something that might start with purpose may in fact become pointless, just as everything living can eventually die. The question stemming from these statements is: "If we all die eventually, does anything we do now actually matter?" Even long term decisions become less and less important over the course of eternity, so the keyword in my question would be matter, since it refers to measuring purpose in its entirety. Since any attempt of valuing purpose would be opinion based any answer would come under scrutiny, because no individual's value of purpose is equivalent to each others.

This guy gets it!

Purpose is a human term, Humans are the only species that intentionally gives meaning to things and like most human things is subjective, for example, plants grow because it rains but it doesn't rain to make plants grow. Also, a lot of people get confused and think that cuasality=teleology but that couldn't be further from the truth. Everything i just said it's horribly simlpified but i hope it gets the point across.

Kind of both. I figure you can make your life what you want but it doesn't really matter either way.