Does life have a purpose?

Is no meaning, is no purpose. We are designed by chance and accident.

But there's no point in making it worse for any other life that's out there.

The purpose of life is tubers . . .

As Lil' Abner so eloquently phrased it, "I thinks, therefore i yam . . . "

For God to prove he's a bad mother ****** ....that's it.

i can only answer for myself..and my life's purpose is #1-make sure i raise 2 very little girls into very intelligent, sensible (yet fun-loving) adults & #2-smile genuinely - at least 10 times, every day

I know that life has a porpoise...I seen 'em at Seaworld.

Life is a lot like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. ~ Tom Lehrer

hmm...life is what you make of it...but if you're looking for a generalised 'purpose' for us being here, you're gonna b sitting at your computer for a long time...how can something which, as far as we no, doesnt make sense, have a purpose?
our species' main drive in being here is to survive for long enough to make more of our species, but do we class that as the purpose for being here? or is it merely a way of achieving the purpose for being here? we dont know. we will never know and in the meantime i intend to copulate to my heart's content -hurrah!

Polishing yourself up with love. It's imperative even if one does not notice it explicitly.

Lifes only purpose is for each of us to make of it what we will----you can be an observer or a participant, you can be a constructive contributor or a destructive critic, you can be a friend and neighbor or a murderer, you can make history or you can read history, it is your choice.

nicely put perception...

I would guess if there is a God there is a greater meaning than being born, live out your cycle and die. If not well--.

If you need to ask life's purpose, you just don't get it, so kindly leave the gene pool. Oops, didn't mean to sound cynical there....

Purpose Of Life

There is no purpose to life,
intended for all human beings.
It's for you to choose a direction;
according to your feelings.

Many hours can be spent on the motive, bent;
seeking a radical solution. There is no motive.
Just as you were not meant to be born
no predetermined role is set;; do not get emotive.

Spend your energy where you can achieve
what you make your lifelong ambition.
That will have been your purpose in life;
an opportunity changed to fruition.

A simple pome I wrote.

I have a purpose.

To become...the ultimate strobe light dancer.

The Lobster Quadrille
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail".
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail".

`If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, `I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!"'
`They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle said: `no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
`Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise.
`Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: `why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With what porpoise?"'
`Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
`I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And the Gryphon added `Come, let's hear some of your adventures.'

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Lewis Carroll

To find happiness.

There is no purpose of life. We're forced into this thing when our parents has sex, and we try to do that for the next generation.

The concept of "purpose" is an aberration of "cognition" which functionally seeks to "predict" and "control". It is similar to the aberration of looking for "causes" and evoking "god" as a prime mover.

Whatever "life" is to us, a hypothetical observer outside the box would presumably construct an explanatory model involving "life" and "non life" or negative and positive entropy as complementary processes within the box. Such a transcendent model is as unlikely to make sense to us as say the concept of "the body" would to those lower level entities we call "blood cells", assuming we could "communicate" with them.

Once again I agree with you and I even understood what you said------I think

I particularly like your use of the word "aberration" and your analogies of "looking for causes" and "evoking god as a prime mover".

From this perspective it conveys real meaning to our search for "purpose"

Also your use of a "hypothetical observer" is a wonderful example of your ability to think "outside the box". What else do you see in the hypothetical observers" transcendent model"?