What is the Purpose of our Life?

[mobkem]

What is the Purpose of our Life?

The information which is to be shared, may seem to be bit extensive but when you consider the capacity of the human brain and the amount of information that it can store and that it can decipher, then a few pages of information tonight, I’m sure won’t overburden you.
All of you have an equal responsibility and that responsibility is to listen with an open heart and an open mind.
In a world full of prejudice and cultural conditioning, it is very hard to find people that are able to take a moment to think about life objectively. And try to arrive at the truth about this world and the real purpose of our life. Unfortunately, when you ask most people the question what is the purpose of our life, such a fundamental and important question, they will not tell you what they have concluded through observation or analytical reasoning. Rather, in most cases, they will simply tell you what someone else said. Or they will tell you what is commonly presumed by others; what my father says the purpose of life is, what the minister of my Church says the purpose of life is, what my teachers says, what my friends says etc. If I ask anyone about the purpose of eating, why do we eat? Everyone will say in one word or another, its for nutrition because it sustains life. If I ask anyone why they work, they will say because it’s a necessity in order to support themselves and to provide the needs of the family. If I ask anyone why they sleep, why they wash etc. They will answer this is a common necessity for all human beings. We can follow this line of questioning with 100 questions and get same or similar answer from anyone in any language in any place in the world. Simple!
Then I ask you the question, why is it, that when we ask the question, what is the goal and the purpose of life, that we get so many different answers? That’s because people are confused, they don’t really know. They are stumbling in the dark. And rather than to say I don’t know, they just fall for any answer that they have been programmed to answer. Well think about it tonight!
Is our purpose in this world simply to eat, sleep, dress, work, acquire some materials things and enjoy ourselves? Is this our purpose? Why are we born? What is the object of our existence? And what is the wisdom behind the creation of men and this tremendous universe? Think about that question.
Some persons argue that there is no prove of any divine origin, there is no prove that there is a God, there is no proves that this universe has come about for any divine purpose; there are people who argue this way. And they say that perhaps this world came about by chance. A big bang and this whole great world, with all its orchestration just came together. And they argue that life does not have any definite purpose and that there is nothing that can be proven through by the logic or science that there is a God or purpose or any divine reason behind this world.
In the Qur’an it’s mentioned:
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and Allah has power over everything. Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, there are indeed signs for men of understanding, men who celebrates the praises of Allah standing, sitting and lying down on their side and they contemplate the wonders of the creation in the heavens and the earth with the thought, “Our Lord, not for any foolish purpose has thou created all of these. Glory be to thee, give us salvation from the penalty of the hellfire.
Now here in these verses, Allah has mentioned very clearly to us by first drawing our attention to the creation of ourselves, the different postures of the human body, the different attitude of the human psychology. He draws our attention to the heaven, the alternation of the night and the day, the firmament, the stars, the constellation and then He says to us, “He has not created all of these for any foolish purpose�. Because when you see the design of it, you know it that the design of it is very powerful and very precise. And something very powerful and very precise that is beyond your own calculation and imagination, it cannot foolish. It cannot be just thrown together.
If you took 10 marbles and number them 1 to 10 and all of them with different colours and you put them inside of a bag and shook the bag and then closing your eyes reached inside that bag, and I told you, pull out marble number 1 and then marble number 2 and then pull out marble number 3 in order. What’s the chance of your pulling out of these 10 marbles in order? Do you know the chances are? Its 26 millions to 1. So what’s the chance of the heavens and the earth being thrown in a big bang and orchestrated like they are. What’s the chance of that?
My dear respected fellow humans we have to ask ourselves a further question. When you see a bridge, a building or an automobile, you automatically consider the person or the company that constructed it. When you see a plane or a rocket, a satellite or a large ship, you also think about how incredible of a vehicle that it is. When you see a nuclear plant in orbiting space stations or a super international airport, you have to thoroughly impressed with the engineering dynamics that are involved.
Yet, these are just things that are manufactured by human beings. Then what about the human body; with its massive and intricate control system? Think about it.
Think about the brains; how it thinks, how it functions, how it analysis, sort information, retrieves information, distinguishes and categorizes information in a millionth of a second! And does it constantly. Think about the brain for a moment. This is the brain that made the automobile, the rocket. Think about the brain and who made that. Think about the heart how it pumps continuously for 60 or 70 years, in taking and discharging blood throughout the body and maintaining that steady precision throughout the life of that person. Think about it.

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[cnorman18]

I believe in God, but the "Argument from Design" isn't a strong one.

Jews believe that the purpose of human life is tikkun Olam - the "repair of the world." Making this world and this life better for everyone - not just Jews.

Beliefs are of minor importance. Actions matter much more.

[McCulloch]

If you took 10 marbles and number them 1 to 10 and all of them with different colours and you put them inside of a bag and shook the bag and then closing your eyes reached inside that bag, and I told you, pull out marble number 1 and then marble number 2 and then pull out marble number 3 in order. What’s the chance of your pulling out of these 10 marbles in order? Do you know the chances are? Its 26 millions to 1.

Not only is your logic weak, but your mathematics is too.
If I have 10 numbered marbles in a bag and drew out one, the odds that it would be number 1 are 1 in 10.
Having drawn out the 1, I now have nine numbered marbles in a bag and draw out one. The odds that it would be number 2 are 1 in 9.
At this point, the cumulative odds of me having drawn the 1 followed by the 2, are 1 in 90 or 1/10 * 1/9. By my calculation, the odds of drawing all ten in order are 1 in 3,628,800 not one in 26 million.

But let me show you why your logic is flawed too. Let us say that you have the same bag of numbered marbles. You draw out the marbles one at a time. They come in this order: 3, 8, 1, 9, 6, 7, 4, 2, 5, 10. Amazing! Do you know what the odds of that are? One in 3,628,800.

Let's try a different thought experiment. We will conduct a world wide coin tossing competition. Every person in the world all 6,796,000,000 of us will compete in person or by proxy. Each person will be matched with some other person. One will toss a fair coin, the other will call it, heads or tails. If the caller is correct, then the one who tossed will be eliminated from the competition; if the caller is incorrect, then the caller is eliminated from the competition. In this way, after the first round, we will have 3,398,000,000 people left in the competition. Do another round and we will have 1,699,000,000 people left in the competition. Then 849,500,000 and 424,750,000 etc. After 32 rounds (eliminating the leftover person if there is an odd number in the round), you will have the world champion coin tosser. What are the odds that this person would be chosen? Very long. What are the odds that someone would be chosen? 100%

Conclusion: Rare events can occur. They do so on a regular basis. Just because some rare event has occurred, does not mean necessarily that it was engineered that way.

[mobkem]

My brother You did not answer my question
What is the Purpose of our Life?

[McCulloch]

My brother You did not answer my question
What is the Purpose of our Life?

You are quite correct. I merely argued against the logical flaws in your supporting arguments, showing why I believe that your conclusions are wrong.

The purpose of one's life is what one decides that it will be. Ultimately, each of us will die, all of those who remember us will die and even our species will become extinct. Life on this planet will eventually be unsustainable. This life is all that we have and all that we can know that we have. Make the most of it.