purpose of life

Hi! That's so philosophical question, I can't answer it just like that even for myself. But there is one good movie, that explores that topic in humorous, but still very deep way. It's "Meaning of life" by Monty Python. That was hilarious for me and this is very close to the topic specified above. So I suggest it =) Jolly MyLotting!

So you would like to know the purpose of life? I can reccomend what is in my opinion, based on four decades of research, the best book I have ever encountered on that very subject. The first time I came across it was in 1976, when I was struggling with the same kind of questions. Gurdjieff and his teaching, the main subject of the book, written by his chief pupil P.D. Ouspensky, had his burning question which he pursued for twenty years in Asian countries, especially in Tibet. He claims to have found the answer in some secret brotherhood. What he did was to strip of it all religious and spiritual language, so he could present it in a form the Western mind could understand. His question was, "What is the aim and significance of life on earth, especially the aim and significance of human life on earth." The title of the book is IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS/Fragments an of an Unknown Teaching by P.D. Ouspensky. After a good six years of reading all kinds of philosophy and psychology,and spiritual literature and getting nowhere fast, this book was the first one I read that actually made sense. Since then I have studied just about everything that movement which Gurdjieff initiated has produced. It gave what to me is one of the most plausible explanations for the aburdities of life, especially with "What's wrong with people?" Most of what I now understand and practice daily has come from his work. By the way, I am not a member of any Fourth Way or Gurdjieff groups, though I have worked with a few of them over the years, but I never found a group that suited my temperament. I did meet a Fourth teacher, Dan Duncan, once in San Francisco, who so impresssed me with his presence, that though we met only one time (I never followed up the initial meeting)in 1989, I never forgot him. How many people can you say that about that are not the opposite gender. I can say it only about a handful I have encountered in my life. In fact, the only group I have ever worked with that seriously impacted my life was a sufi group in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by Reshad Field, an Englishman and author of over ten titles who converted to Islam and became a sufi teacher. I never met Reshad personally, as he was headquarted in Switzerland, but I felt his infuence through his pupils with whom I worked. Nine months with them did more for me than fifteen years of on and off psychiatric botched intervention, usually against my will. I am convinced to this day that the psychiatric profession caused my psychiatric problems. I have my one and only ex-wife to thank for that. I don't know to this day what she said to him, but when I called him a quake, he had me involantarily committed for three days of observation and treatment. They stamped a label on me (manic-depressive with psychotic tendencies) and shoved pills down my throat. And that wasn't even my worst episode. I escaped the second day. Since I left the sufi group in 1993, I have never again been under a psychiatrist care, except for the occasional bout of depression brought about by stress overload. There are answers, you just need to be discerning and inwardly sincere, because just like in Christianity, there are lots of false prophets out there, psuedo schools that exploit the weak willed and the wrongly motivated potential student. The thing is to learn to connect with that in you which is real. Study the book I recommended; it has answers. Good luck with your search.

In life there is no true purpose of life but what you believe it to be. People who believe in God think that God has made on this planet to see how we live and if we live a life according to the laws he has set. We will get heaven or else hell. A joke that runs between my friends is that by the time we die hell will be full and they will out us in heaven anyways. what i think about it in a serious way is that there is no actual purpose of life. It is what you do with your life that becomse your purpose. I believe in benefiting humanity as a whole as much as i can until i die. You can always find a meaningful purpose for your life even if it is a strange one.