What is the point in life?

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Just curious to read about all your viewpoints?
is it to acquire money/career?
is it to provide for your children once you’re gone? (Leave money in your will so that they will be comfortable)
is it to enjoy life “in the moment” through travelling the world, experiencing cultures, eating out, etc
is it through charity and good deeds
or to just simply exist and be grateful for it regardless of anything else (finances, etc)

I can't just let blatant misinformation go by.

I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned anything about social or political activism - surely for a lot of people, there's much purpose and meaning to be found in trying to make things better for others, however that impulse expresses itself?

@AliceMaforethought Do tell how you know it's misinformation?

Oh please. You really believe all that nonsense? If I was the emperor of the world, the first thing I'd ban is religion. It's a mental illness IMO. If someone told you that you'd seen a man dead and buried who arose three days later, you'd think they were a lunatic.

Religion isn't a mental illness.

It's the way many people conceptualise or make sense of the unknowable and some of the mysteries or bigger questions of life, such as human souls - a quest which mankind has been absorbed with across most cultures and in most eras.

It's just rude to belittle other people's beliefs.

As for one thing that doesn't exist, it's Emperor of the World.

You sound very young.

I'm not young, I'm in my forties. Religion is a tool to oppress people, especially women. I have no more respect for it than I do for any other specious philosophy. If people are so entrenched in their delusion, my objections are hardly going to register. People on this site (rightly) say that men cannot become women and vice versa, yet you say we have to 'respect' the belief that a man rose from the dead and that there is some omnipotent being in charge of everything. No, no, and once again no.

I think if you delved into religion a little more, you might find it often isn't as literal as you seem to think.

@Calliopespa

Religion isn't a mental illness

I agree. However, speaking as someone who works with people who have formal diagnoses of delusional illnesses, they frequently manifest in no different a way to how religious people describe and practice "faith", so I can understand precisely why the term "delusional" is also sometimes applied to the religious.

Well, people certainly seem to take it pretty literally, like the person on this thread who gave chapter and verse.

It is a delusion at best, a tool of absolute oppression at worst.

I think it’s whatever you make it. There’s no clear direction so for me it’s to love and protect those around me, make a small difference somewhere and enjoy my time here as much as possible with the people I care about.

I am not supportive of anything that oppresses anyone, but nonetheless many people do not feel oppressed by it - like the poster you responded to - and many use it as their way of making sense of the world.

I have disagreed with many of the attitudes on here, but I think when it is something as personal as how we as individuals contemplate and navigate the meaning of life , people should be free to express their beliefs without having them denounced as wrong. No-one is forcing anyone to accept anything.

Try saying that on one of the trans threads. How many religious people genuinely stay in their own lane? Some do, but most don't.

I know. But I felt that on this thread people had mostly.

@AliceMaforethought
We all have our own beliefs.
Some of us aren't rude enough to try & force them on others. You've made your point. Leave it.

The only person forcing their belief was the one who was literally giving chapter and verse of a fictional story.

@AliceMaforethought Well, you've responded.

Yes, I have!

Anything other than procreation is navel gazing? Great art, music, literature, kindness, charity, trying to make the world a better, more just place; navel gazing?

Well said @calliopespa and @cornflakecrunchie and shame on you @AliceMaforethought for belittling other people's beliefs.

I make no apology for 'bellittling' harmful nonsense. All this delusional dross written by someone millenia ago and still trotted out by sheep needs to be a figure the DSM for various cluster b personality disorders.

@AliceMaforethought
Something wrong with you. You're determined to get your point across, newsflash, you have, now go & annoy someone else.

You shouldn't be annoyed by truth. You should be annoyed by delusion.

I'm annoyed by annoying people, who, having posted their opinion, won't give it a rest!
We've all heard you!!
I'm off to bed now, play nicely.

The purpose is to find YOUR purpose. We are all different, and it changes over time anyway.