![Purpose.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZr2cKp5zJ7pcBTRgCgWKa986xCTen9LDSvdtzZ5hFDV6/Purpose.jpg) **<h1><center>The Purpose of Life</center></h1>** Today, I was talking with my philosophy teacher about the purpose of life, and after a while, I realized that there are two schools of thought about this and I made a conclusion. I saw people from all kinds of backgrounds, from kids to billionaires, talking about this subject and considering their purpose because it is so important. These school of thoughts may or may not be right but don’t try to judge any of them until you see the conclusion because it’s useless to do so from the beginning. <center>![Guy break.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXbKPNNwkg9c3JvqxX5nUZ13ChLeiaDiFCUdC4nFVPtto/Guy%20break.png)</center> **<h1><center>The Myth of Sisyphus</center></h1>** This is the first school of thought promoted by Camus, an existentialist atheist, considering that there are no gods and that we have no purpose. As far as I can remember the main idea was that Sisyphus got punished by the gods, so he had to do a meaningless job for eternity, and since he was already dead, there was no way for him to escape. >>The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. – [Albert Camus]( http://dbanach.com/sisyphus.htm) We are all Sisyphus including the kid working at McDonald's because he decided to play video games for the first 18 years of his life and he had no backup plan when he finished high school and the multi-millionaire, big shot working on Wall Street. The idea is that we are all caught up in a routine, in a meaningless job because no one needs McDonald's slaves and even those people working there know it's useless. The sad part is that most of the people are caught up in a cycle that’s going on in their mind, thinking that without a job they will have no money thus they will not be able to pay the expenses they have so they will die out of hunger. But that cannot be further from the truth since there are so many other options like Steem for example. https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/09/28/20/47/happy-465293_960_720.jpg The idea is that if we realize that what we are doing is meaningless, like working at MC Donald’s is, then we can consciously do that robotic stuff and we maybe even get to amuse of ourselves and how stupid we look. The absurdity is met when Sisyphus cannot escape his “job” not even through suicide because he is already dead, this being a reflection of our lives and that suicide is not going to free us but consciousness since he became aware of his trivial task. There are no gods; we have no purpose, our job is meaningless thus we are wasting our existence by doing it so we should become aware of our situation and try to change it, this is what I understood from the whole myth that is actually the myth of the 21-century human being. <center>![Guy break.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXbKPNNwkg9c3JvqxX5nUZ13ChLeiaDiFCUdC4nFVPtto/Guy%20break.png)</center> **<h1><center>Religion</center></h1>** On the other hand, there are the well-known influences of all kinds of religions considering that humans have a purpose because they were created by someone that knows everything. This belief doesn’t resonate with me; I do not like it because if we already have a purpose, then we are prived from the option of forging our own purpose thus being just some simple marionettes, playing an ironic game that we already know how is going to end up. It’s like programming a computer you already know what the outcome is going to be and what purpose everything in there has. https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/09/04/09/38/cross-2713356_960_720.jpg Also, what I don't like in this situation is that mostly you have to follow some strict rules that will decide where you're going after you die but it seems like a nonsense since life itself is not rigid but fluid, always in change. <center>![Guy break.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXbKPNNwkg9c3JvqxX5nUZ13ChLeiaDiFCUdC4nFVPtto/Guy%20break.png)</center> **<h1><center>Conclusion</center></h1>** One of the theories says that we have no purpose and the possibility to create our own and the other one believes that we already have a set purpose. But what both of these theories miss out of sight is the fact that they are just opinions, interpretations and that we, as humans are metaphorically in a box and we cannot see past that box without transcending it. https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/02/21/18/29/shaft-2086978_960_720.jpg Beyond the box we live in is probably all the truth in the world, existence itself and I don’t think that we can get through the box without either dying and regaining direct contact with everything or by transcending it through other methods like meditation. We are just making assumptions about the truth thus missing the truth itself from our eyes, missing the fact that we do not know anything and that we are only hoping that we are right. In the end, don’t have total trust in what I’m saying, I don’t know anything either, I’m still caught up in the same box as you are and maybe, one day, I shall be able to surpass my limitations. The pictures are from Pixabay: [1](https://pixabay.com/en/girl-mejk-color-rainbow-model-2696947/), [2](https://pixabay.com/en/happy-street-art-backdrop-artistic-465293/), [3](https://pixabay.com/en/cross-christ-faith-god-jesus-2713356/), [4](https://pixabay.com/en/shaft-coffin-box-boards-bay-niche-2086978/). <center>[![guyfawkes4-20.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcMZVVTA8ayd8vvufULvFoKdA6MdYBYdNX37H7BA5VkFH/guyfawkes4-20.gif)](https://steemit.com/@guyfawkes4-20)</center> ![GuyVersion.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYykChUJLjFAWjXPgfRh2wDXEHM87JLE8ALhy8zR4ck8X/GuyVersion.jpg)
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awesome man all the best in your steem success you are really good in bloging.
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https://media1.tenor.com/images/048cc35b45c1545328f41a03d0177ffa/tenor.gif?itemid=5567970 I can do it. I think sensible but just out of religion. Thanks for post my friends. I fallowing you
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Those are two opposite sides of the spectrum, I think a third way is embracing yourself and living how you want to. This does require serious self-understanding but it seems like the most practical and authentic way to live.
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How many people are willing to engage in a program of Philosophy necessary to live in the manner which you prescribe?
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Probably not much, the masses(the majority) find better and easier to go along with polis or whatever dominant program of philosophy is accepted. This being so, it doesn't really bother me as I don't really have much to add to those people.
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Hello @guyfawkes4-20, I'm glad I bumped into your post, nice work! : ) I'm new to Steemit and I've actually just written an article about human life worth and purpose a couple of hours ago. It may give an answer about what we can focus on inside the box. : ) I'm looking forward to discussing similar topics with you, cheers!
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Hey guyfawkes, I think youre missing existentialism here. Existentialism is similar to absurdism but it jumps off a littler earlier.
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As a Stoic our purpose is to live in accordance with nature and nature has designed us to be rational, self-aware and self-controlling agents.
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I believe we have 2 purposes on our life. One is short term and can be achieved by anyone, and the other ins is long term, **very** long term. The short term is simple, our life’s purpose is just to be happy, enjoy life and have good experiences. The long term is more complicate. For me, our ultimate purpose would me to gain all knowledge there is to gain, advance technology to its higher potential, and reaching such a high development to be considered God’s by today’s standars.
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I used to ask myself these kind of things all the time - until I spoke to a guy one night. After waxing lyrical about the various perspectives, and ideologies, philosophies, his own philosophy - his outlook - was far superior to my own.. _You live, you die. This we know. To live, and feel alive, is to strive - is to have a purpose in life. NO purpose, no happiness._ _"Living and dying - without having as much happiness in between as possible - is a royal fuck up on your part." I stopped waxing lyrical too much after that conversation. I found disappearing up my own rectum on regular basis, just wasn't conducive to finding any purpose, or happiness. lol Dissecting things perpetually just kept you in the same place, while giving you the hallucinatory sensation that you was moving somewhere.... I'll stop now....
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Awesome writting, man.
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Remain open minded and have an introspective habit. Be in the moment and you will find peace. Maybe we don't need a purpose, maybe we just need to be okay with what's going on around us and accept what we have the power to control and what not. Controlling your job title is something that a lot of people are just beginning to get acquainted with, at least I believe. Keep it up! Love the philosophy.
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Great read. No expert myself but this is what I have gleaned through my interactions with spirit, (for what it/they is/are worth). Each of us has a purpose which is considered, discussed and agreed upon whilst still in spirit. When we arrive in physical form we have absolutely no memory of this. We are then at liberty to find our way whilst, behind the scenes, spirit quietly tries to guide us - think synchronicity/intuition etc. As free will is sacrosanct we may get waylaid, take a wrong turn and possibly miss our agreed upon in spirit destination completely. Nothing is written in stone. Our ultimate purpose is to 'BE'. With love xox
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Lately, I've returned from the intellectual pendulum and realized something profound (at least to me). We, as humans, spend most of our calories running our brain and heart... the brain is so obviously our rational, factual, sensory routing center. Great for thoughts and things of abstraction... Sisyphus. Now that leaves the heart. Not a thinking machine, although our hearts do have their own nervous system. But it's primary function, is to be a vacuum. To pump is the physical act of faith. The heart convinces itself the way to grow bigger is to compress itself and make itself empty. This goes against all logic and requires a leap of faith to complete. In closing, your life is found in the center of a crosshair. The vertical is our brain and the horizontal is our heart. We are functionally rational and faith based. There is no yin without the yang.
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