What is the purpose of existence?

Canada
December 23, 2011 8:33pm CST
Ok, I feel that reality and the physical scape that we see is quite surreal.I really wonder sometimes what caused us to enter this world at a random point of time in this so called history. Story: I almost got ran over by a train by roughly half to three quarters of a second!!!!, in August.After this event I have really thought about life more thoroughly!!.It really opened my mind more , thinking about how abruptly we could be taken away from this world.I cherish every day I life and hope for good things to take place in my life.I live with a mixture of good and bad things and fee we should all live life to its fullest as we are only here for a short time. Kind of drunk..... But that is when deep thinking occurs.... lol.....
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@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
24 Dec 11
Hi SilverKing, Many have pondered the purpose of existence and there are different thoughts on the subject, some make sense, some don't. I have thought about it many times during my life and now feel that it is to experience joy, or in other words, have fun. I don't mean doing crazy things, although that can be fun too if you don't hurt anyone. I think we are spiritual beings but there are many things that we can ony experience in a physical body. We should find ways of helping others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves. We can get a lot of pleasure out of this and even more so when we do it anonymously. Enjoy today and you will find tomorrow taking care of itself. Blessings.
@bird123 (10632)
• United States
24 Dec 11
Life is the education of God's children. So, what have you learned from your experience???? You are Thinking and that is the start.
• United States
24 Dec 11
The purpose of existing is to simply procreate, raise and prepare our offspring to be able to make their own families so that they too procreate and keep the circle of life going. You should live your life to the fullest, but in a positive way because if you make bad choices while you are "living life to the fullest" you will probably not live life to the fullest for very long. Think about it.
@shrijsr (574)
• Bangalore, India
24 Dec 11
hello silverKing, For me, we are bought into this world for completing our Karmas and making good for the people around us and keeping the life cycle going. If you remember, adam and eve was brought into this earth for taking care of the beautiful garden he had created. But then, even after god had commanded adam and eve not to eat the fruit from the tree which gives the wisdom and knowledge to differentiate between the good and the evil, adam made the mistake of eating the fruit of the very fruit of the tree that god had denied him off. There begins the karma of the human race. Karma is nothing but, making the wrong things right by learning the lessons from the wrong things. Thus, if we had made any mistakes in our previous life, then we are born in this life to make it right by learning what is right and wrong. That is why we need to be forgiving towards others when they do a mistake. because, nobody does a mistake willingly. Everybody wants to be the bets person on this world. Even adam was not willing to break the lord's order. But he was tempted to do it. That is Karma. That is why, "Life never puts wrong for you. Infact, what you call wrong is the lesson of life to understand the value of right. Wrong is never wrong because it always guides you right! "
@Triple0 (1904)
• Australia
24 Dec 11
Who knows why we are here, because of God or a bunch of planets and stars colliding together to make us who knows?! Life is a mystery, I don't think it has a purpose unless you give it a purpose. The life you're living is your life and you live the way you want to live and if you achieved the best life you always wanted, you'll die happy I suppose. But ran over a train? Oh dear! If I were you I would be scarred! Who said life is easy and safe? When there is good, there will always be bad, no world is perfect. Life is unpredictable and we have no idea when we will leave this world. Life has its ups and downs, we can't expect life to b happy and great all he time. There will be pain, there will be suffering but there's got to be some happiness thrown in there too to balance everything out. Keep moving on, bad thoughts bring you down and n one wants to live like that. I reckon life is a gift and we should cherish it to the fullest before we enter to the afterlife. Your life is your life, no one else's so you better live to the fullest. No hard feelings.