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For those of you that dont belive in God then whats the point of living? We live for a very short bit then die and then thats it?

There has to be a purpose it doesn't make any sense if there isn't a purpose, someone had to create us for a purpose or for a reason, im not trying to bash anyone who doesn't believe in god or change anyones opinion im just confussed what do you guy's think the purpose of life is?

What's the point of living? Why? Do you really think when you die thats it? We were born to die and nothing eles?

(Im not bashing anyone who doesn't believe in god im just asking a question, so dont bash what i believe i believe there is a god)

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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

So true. If there is no God there is no need to argue about it. After all you are simply disagreeing with a pile of magic mud so who cares?

DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 U TalKs a LOts Of TrasHz

SW-User

@hippyjoe1955 No i believe in god so i know theres a purpose im just asking for those who dont belive what do you think the purpose of life is? Do you think you die and thats it?

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@SW-User I am on your side. I qualified with 'So True'.

DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@SW-User At the physical level, your purpose is to replicate your genes (that's why they made you). After all, you're a recent expression of a 3.5 billion year unbroken history of such replication.

Medical issues aside, you're carrying at least several hundred thousand potential such replications.

On a profoundly human level, you might find point and purpose in trying to mitigate some of the misery and suffering inflicted on the world by the magical entity you believe in. It seems to take such delight in such cruelty that you'll surely have your hands full, and have purpose every day.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@newjaninev2 There is no purpose. Go back to you magic mud if you don't believe me.

SW-User

@newjaninev2 ok

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@SW-User Never mind hippyjoe1955. He wants you experience misery and suffering, hoping that you will be driven towards his particular magical entity... one that magically poofs humans out of dirt.

You might find some perspective in this:
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
(Richard Dawkins)

You'll notice that finding purpose in the way I suggested also leads to moral behaviour... seeking to maximise the wellbeing of any organism capable of otherwise suffering.

Even a cursory examination of the world will show you that religion is neither the source nor the arbiter of morality... it's empathy.