I think its a heck of a lot of a better answer than religion

I think we will all kill each other b4 we find our pupose!..soz..I see life as a test you have to pass, then you find out the meaning of purpose..

I think that the purpose of all this is to love and worship God and have a relationship with Him.
I don't even begin to comprehend why. I don't understand how prayer works any more than I understand why the lights go on when I turn on a switch, but I know it works.
I kinda feel it's like playing a regulation game of any kind--we may not like the rules, but we have to play by them.

feeling satisfied with a creation that is practical and functional should be rewarding but we as humans tend to negatively critique ourselves making other's opinions crucial to us, but if we don't trust the source of the other's opinion we go back to finding the goodness of the machine built and tell ourselves it's not good enough in which we strive to better the next project...The ongoing cycle of life

I just finished listening to "The Purpose Driven Life" on Cd. I really don't have the attention span for the book, but it has helped me so much. I would encourage anyone who has questions about life's purpose to read it- or be like me and listen to the cds. Anyone else hear about this book? Thoughts?

I believe the purpose is to love God and love others as ourselves.

I understand what you are saying neurotica and I agree. We all have our different avenues for finding that "purpose" for our life and we may never fully realize it in this lifetime. I choose to discover my purpose for this life through my faith and the One Who created me and sustains me. God already knows my purpose and it is through Him and following His laws I will find it. Others have their avenue of believe and discovery and I respect that also. We are all on a tremendous journey and along that journey we will discover wonderful things and not so wonderful things. But it is all a part of the picture and the beautiful, individual person that we are. Hugs

Purpose? We have a purpose?

The porpoise is to release your end-dolphins

HAHAHAHA!! That was excellent!

So does that mean once you have found what you believe your purpose is that its over for you...That being the case then I strongly disagre..I believe that our purpose is to evolve and to continue to evolve as people that is why we continue and go on...We thrive for knowledge, we process it, we use it we gain more.
We have families so that we can continue to evolve and grow and we hope that the following generation is smarter than the last.

I'm with dobiedots!

Isn't that called a purpose driven life?

i believe we are all put here FOR a purpose, but i do not believe we are meant to KNOW that purpose until we get to the "other side." i also beleive that our purposes are not met until we expire of natural causes...we have the ability to influence others in ever state of our health/being.

please add a "y" to "ever" in my last sentence... (blush)