Jordan Peterson on the Purpose of Life

Whats the point of doing anything if its just to feel a certain way?

so living on memories is a reason to live?

I wonder if Socrates (or anyone for that matter) would have felt as easy letting go of life if he didn't believe in an afterlife. Easier to die when you think your soul is immortal.

My new goal for life is to die without directly killing my self as I see it as sin and God explained. Like JP said. I had enough, not life but people and stupidity in this world. I have seen too much of it that I need to get it done and over. I want death as it is opening something better. This world is not doing it for me. How is the question?

My purpose in life is to be a giant toilet for God to s*** on me since I'm a loser. How's that for a purpose?

Thanks!

Serve God with good works. That is everyone's life purpose.

Imagine being so great you literally get paid millions to talk to people through various channels—genius.

The purpose of our Life is the same as Jesus. (He came and showed us in person what to do) Faith Love Teach/Testimony/Lead and Sacrifice.

The purpose of life is to leave your DNA.

thank you, 💯...

The problem today is we are willing choose to live our lifes void off our creator and neglect the authority of God's word. God's word is the light we undoubtedly require to enable us to find our purpose in life. Today our god is our identity which is foolishness beyond measure. We are not random beings that just happened when we were created we had purpose in our development. Its not just marry , get a car ,buy a house, become " successful " whatever that means . There's a word in Bible for that vanity. And that was the who God blessed with the greatest gift of wisdom.
Seek 1st the kingdom of God.
You must be born again or you will not see / understand the kingdom of God .
Peace be upon you .


SS7

Maybe the real purpose in life we have been searching for are the friends we made along the way 😀

The purpose is to live hand in hand with mother Earth, mother nature. Not to live in the evil world of possession and ownership, greed and pride. Live in love and compassion for one another and the earth. Not the world, but earth! ❤Remember your true purpose, that is why you are unhappy. You are fighting your nature. Don't want anything of the world. Want things that money can't buy. ❤

It is never too late for you to really find out the purpose for your life. ❤

Only the Giver of Life knows the real Purpose of Life.
Only the Creator knows the real Purpose of the creature.

Geniusly!!!!! ❤️

life sucks
..and then you die

Bullshit,
The purpose of life is just to worship the creator in the way that he already sent and revealed to us. Yes my friends, as simple as this.

The goal of life is to worship Allah alone, who has no partner, and to comply with His command

"I did not create jinn and humans except to worship Me."[Quran 51:56]

The purpose/meaning of life is to get born again.
Chances are that those that disagree will be unable to place their right palm on the KJV and say these words once only in a calm coherent manner-> I refuse refuse to be full of demons.

poor mr. p. continues his role as fashion victim.

This guy constantly brings me to tears

Hebrews 7:22((N.A.S.B.))🎩

So in other words, the meaning of life is to be satisfied with your death.

That was really helpful to me, the sin of omission you fleshed out. I had an opportunity I missed with a girl, twice now with two different girls. Those doors are shut and I'm left to figure out how not to hate myself (and my brother who made the most of his opportunity with one of them) and somehow figure out how to move on. Not give up on life...and love.

A life well lived, well that sounds impossible to achieve. There's no purpose to pursue, there's only regret and in the future only more regret, and more regret and more regret. Because no purpose ever appears in my mind. And my heart is silent and dead. My soul clearly gone.
I have wasted whatever faint potential I could have had, and now there is nothing. Every day when I wake up I instantaneously want to die. I hate every single second of consciousness. Being conscious is hell, it's literal hell. I don't know how every single human being doesn't want to die all the time.
I only wish I was never born. Life is just not worth it. I hope I get a heart attack some day, rather sooner than later. I'm ready to be done with this crap.

What do you feel that you produce daily? feelings! Where do these feelings go after they are produced? I helped you solve the mystery of what is the meaning of life, and you have to think and complete when, why, how, and in what feelings chips are used after producing them After death, you will move to a larger body to be a larger factory after qualifying and training in earthly life The greatest production in the afterlife, where will it be? Hell? Heaven? The majority, 99%, will not go to retirement Because in the first place they were employed in the factories of the dark power Why did they accept work in dark energy? Imaginary offers in the field of everything if they accept This is a trap!! Yes and no. It contains instructions that must be read before recklessness
By whom were they hired? One of the leaders of the dark force !Who, how and where ?do you have eyes, hearing and mind? You are responsible I want the opposite. Yes, everything has its opposite! Only one has no opposite! The important thing is that the opposite of darkness is light. Work in it is boring, limited and hard. They do not give a pension. It is almost slavery, but there is a retirement in the end that is very tempting and has no limits.

This guy is a great explorer of the human psyche.

I sometimes ask ChatGPT a question, and it gives an answer that is well structured, and the argument seems so good that it almost convinces me. The thing is, I know the right answer and it just gives a wrong one. Although a well structured, and a well argued answer, but a wrong one.

<<And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.>> (Adh-Dhariyat, 56)

yawn

How Human Nature Works

Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try to distance ourselves from harm, and then seek how to draw ourselves closer to what is beneficial.

Human nature also includes a multilayering of systems that work simultaneously on still, vegetative, animate and human levels. One of those systems is our bodily one, which operates involuntarily. If our bodies are healthy, then they know what is good for them and draw that goodness to themselves. After the bodily system, there is the emotional system, which also functions relatively according to instinct. From the emotional system, we move to the mind, and from the mind to the intellect, and so on. That is, we have systems over systems that concurrently work on receiving what is beneficial and rejecting what is harmful.

Such is human nature and the essence of our lives. Our every desire, thought and action operates according to the calculation, “How can we receive what is most beneficial to us and reject what is harmful?”

Opportunities without dignity are meaningfull.

Be YourSelf and Kind to others. 😊❤

At 52 I can attest to the fact that you are correct. I regret all the things I should have done .
The absolute worst part is that I fully knew all the right things to do but I was spoiled, I'm lazy and im a pessimist.
See even though I'm a smart person I was aware I was making bad decisions so I feel like that makes me extra super duper stupid..
Normal stupid people have an excuse...I do not.

One of the reasons people question whether or not there's a purpose to our life - or anything - is because it's built out of our modern models of the world. Aristotle included final causation in his Metaphysics but we seem only to concern ourselves with efficient and material causes (and maybe formal on a good day....)

If information is reduction in uncertainty (H = -Sum(p*logp), I = -p*logp, see Raymond W Yeung 2008 or Jones and Jones 2012) then it would seem informational and material reductionism lead to opposite places. Material reductionism leads to unexplainable nothingness. Informational reductionism seems to lead to infinite uncertainty and chaos, from which order is naturally going to emerge. When we talk about the future being potential if the past has brought information into being and filtered the chaos and narrowed down what the future truth can be, then the future is potential because it can be reduced to what's left to filter out. There could be objections regarding conservation of information but I think the physics treatment is different from the information theory treatment so the above (very, very abridged) speculation may still be possible

Thank you JP truly an inspiration to us young men who want different and better.

The ñew hunger games?

When they take your money you will know it's time to stop??????

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

Life purpose is to freely choose to have high valued relationship with the creator , he made you learning creature so that you can understand his blessings to you and have the informed consent of being in the highest level of love with i.e love to the point of worship

Jordan's unwillingness to give up ingratiating his father's defense mechanisms has him unable to finish the earliest pre-psychological oneness stages of development.

Jordan's habitual actions are predicated on the mind of a boy trapped in vicious circles of thoughts and feelings about his father's unconscious meaning-making and emotional reactions.

Jordan's identity can't separate from his father's defense mechanisms because that triggers his father's wrath.
And Jordan cannot only be subservient to his father's defense mechanisms and wrath because then he cannot function and stabilize.

Often I wonder about "the purpose of life" it always comes back with "life needs a purpose?"
or "do I need a purpose?"
This is when my life flashes retrospectively... "why?" in the end we still wonder if we had
chosen a different path, although the path we chose was a good one according to
society, the status quo, faith, family and friends.
The paradox follows us all the way through. My mother chose a career which brought her
great fortune, she lived in abundance and yet on her death bed wondered about the
purpose of her life. Does the word "purposeful" means purpose? If I live my life with
consideration for others, giving what I can and helping when I can, is it not a purposeful life?
Although some people are not even close to middle class, and may never reach that
level, do they ask themselves "what is the purpose of my life"? The only reason I asked myself
that question...it was introduced to me. I'm quite content to have a life. Whatever happened to
being alive, gratitude, good physical and mental health? The way society is going perhaps we
need to redefine the word "purpose" I'm just saying. 😘

To be created in God’s image means to act like God. When Jews observe the Sabbath they are remembering two events , that God created the world and God brought the Hebrews out of slavery. The basic lesson is to be positively creative and bring others to freedom to help them maximize their potential. But it is primary goal to use energy to become the best version of ourselves and when we are that best or at least a better version we contribute more to the world