What is the purpose of life?

[Aces High]

Well not exactly being gods...but Englishmen which is the next best thing,our mission on earth is to educate the lesser peoples in the ways of civilisation,fair play and how to behave like gentlemen and to know and respect our queen and heirs.
If we earn a bauble here and a bangle there for our endevours then so be it,i think it a fair return for bringing people out of the stone ages.

Thats an Englishmans purpose in life.

[BeerBaron]

Purpose? why does there have to even be one? well i think humans should advance as far as possible, and use technology to kick us along the evolutionary ladder at a faster pace.

biologically speaking our purpose is to reproduce, just like every other living thing on this planet, thats really about it no god necessary (or wanted)

[Breedingvariety]

Life has no purpose. Life is the context in which all purposes exist.

"What is the meaning of life?" is better question. But to answer that, first the question "what is life?" needs to be answered.

if i knew the answer, i would be a billionaire now!

You just answered- to be a billionaire.

[Logan]

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[Cato]

Reverence God and the gods, and help men. Short is life.

Marcus Aurelius.

[Blossom]

ATM I'm an epicurean.

[Laudanum]

We'll probably never know.

[Cato]

ATM I'm an epicurean.

Stoicism is better; Epicures only believe in sensation and materialism.

[Blossom]

Stoicism is better; Epicures only believe in sensation and materialism.

True, but it was just as I felt at that right moment. My thoughts about life may change a lot during a day depending on the day ofc. But yes, I should look for a more permanent one..but I guess I'll just wait things to happen, things that actually bother me so in few months I may be able to decide at least for some time my position. Though I recognize be somehow in the middle road between epicureism and stoicism. A golden mean.

[Cato]

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Etc.