Life is subjective.

That depends on your spiritual beliefs. I don't think life is subjective, I think it's objective. I just don't know what the objective of mine is.

your alive to make friends and be happy.

How does one simply be happy? Happiness is an emotion which results from outside stimuli, and I am currently missing a perpetual stimuli to keep me happy.

*HUGE LIGER HUGS*

you should be happy with the love of friends, and I am glad to be one that is there for you.

I don't even know the answer for myself honestly. Hopefully your soul searching becomes fruitful soon.

You are alive to slay the evil rainbow dragon that guards the kidnapped magical faerie princess that is actually a ninja and if you rescue her she will take you to her dojo where you will discover that all faeries are actually ninjas and samurais locked in an epic battle for control over the world, and if you manage to stop the war they will take you to the Great Lord Fufflepuff, who will tell you to go on an epic journey across space and time in order to find the legendary Pointy Thing of Doom, which will give you the power to conjure the White Rabbit, who will do absolutely nothing because he's late for a very important date, and if you chase him you will get lost and find yourself face to face with a zombified Elvis Presley, who will tell you the meaning to life, the universe and everything which you will realize is nothing more than 42 as it has always been.

The problem is, I found the pointy thing of doom, and then I accidentally broke it. ;w;

GODOMOT.

I have put a lot of thought into that lately, and this is what I have come up with:

"Sin", metaphorical darkness, negativity and what have you is like a sickness. Your will of getting better from it so to speak is like your immune system. Society is slowly but surely falling into a twisted contortion, and it seems like many people are going over the brink.

I believe we suffer, those of us who do, so we can find unique ways to clear our specific 'malady', so we can be as doctors to others who share the same 'disease' :)

As a Christian with many different views and a lot of anger/dissatisfaction with the bible (only because I believe the church has mis-conveyed what was originally written, as the roman catholic church had hold of it for so many years before the protestant movement, BUT, I still feel a lot of good can be found from it as well.), including some pagan views (but they are very personal and all of the light, and since paganism can be just about anything I would only encourage one who feels a calling to the light that way to it.), I have found it is very difficult to always grasp the truth, the what is. Though when I was baptized way back when, I did feel that goodness -- what I believe was the Holy Spirit, and I have lived by that to the best of my capacity even when I had forgotten I was even baptized. With many modern churches trying to trick people, that goodness is sometimes all I can cling to.

But quite simply, I think Jesus is true, innocent and unconditional love, incarnate into a person who tried to teach people. What I have discovered my own personal purpose to be, is to love Jesus -- through that same kind of action, whenever I can, wherever I can.

To bring up a C S lewis book, the last battle, there was a part where Aslan gathered followers of other beings and explained they all were following him when they called to a name, but their acts were of his. I think the main connection many people have always tried to introduce, and something I feel very strongly, is that spirit of goodness is what we all seek and it comes to those who seek to do deeds of goodness, innocently, without even thinking of a cause or effect :)

See, even way back when I had nothing against Christians. I guess you could say what I saw christianity as was what I grew up with, people who didn't really care but followed a name blindly. Nor am I trying to knock anyone off of that path when I say things differently. What I am aiming for is to get people to see the actions and deeds and the goodness is what should be strived for :)

I hear what you are saying, but I don't think it answers my question. As a Christian, it's obviously portrayed that each individual should strive to live a Godly life, follow His Word, and do good in their own lives and the lives of others.

What I am asking, is, what am I supposed to be doing? How am I supposed to live my life? What is my career? My destination? My special reason for existing? Or are all these questions worthless, and is there no answer?

Taking from a purely scientific POV here, which entwines to many different spiritual views as well....physics tells us everything is a form of energy. Our senses merely react and understand to those energies. Life really is what you make of it, but I believe the Spirit of God is what calls us to do more with our lives and do acts of goodness. Seek them and you'll find them :)

And one addendum (even though I know I said a lot):

"Hell" is a mistranslation, and derived from the pagan 'hele'. Something I don't agree with in that view either. I do not believe in eternal suffering over mistakes, and I think that is church propoganda. Though I can tell you feel a conviction to do the right thing...and I can tell you living by goodness and the light is far more satisfying at the end of the day :) you don't always get a sense of what you have done is right, and if your self discipline was worth it (though I don't believe you have to never enjoy yourself, I just think the cup of that enjoyment shouldn't be something pure dark or evil against another, person or any living thing.), but if you do slip and start doing things which defy the light...you will feel almost instantly the light was the better path (unless you never had the chance to walk that path in the first place, that is why I encourage others to follow it. It feels nice.) ^^

I feel this is about to turn into more of a theological discussion, but oh well. :P Gives me something to do today.

"Hell" is an umbrella term for Gehenna, Sheol, Abaddon, Hades, the Lake of Fire, and Abyss. It's always referenced in the Bible as an actual place of suffering, not a metaphorical one. And although modern culture has changed that (my own personal hell, life is hell, war is hell, etc.), I still believe it is an actual location.

"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." ~Revelation 21:8 (King James Version)

It seems portrayed to me as a genuine fate for the evil.

True, but I try to be very observant :) it says the lake of fire is eternal, it never said the soul's stay in it was. Though it talks about those who receive the mark of the beast etc burning eternally...but revelation was never my favorite book ;), also except for the one parable about lazarus and the rich man. Gehenna was said to be a place where the soul was either eventually destroyed, or one had the option of repentance from. When it said Jesus was crucified, In 1 peter 3:19-3:20, it said that Jesus went down to the souls "In prison" and even tried to reach them there and only 8 willfully converted. That says to me that many of the souls there simply do not want to repent or embrace Jesus or goodness.

Which is to say: I fully agree that the truly evil or those who do not want goodness are punished. But many of the ways things are written do not add up for me. I have mentally ill family members who have slipped, whom I love very dearly, who I do not believe because they have 'fallen away' have committed the unforgivable sin and would be forever condemned etc. Rather, I wouldn't worship a monster who throws what I deem innocent people into an eternal fire. But I know that is not the case, and what I believe is church propaganda.

Suffice to say, if you're saying the adolf hitlers are there, I fully agree, but if you believe in the technicalities landing you in there stuff...we cannot agree ^^;

Though, I would like to call up an interesting philosophical point:

Jesus repeatedly said the Kingdom of Heaven (Or Kingdom of God) is within you. It could be that one falls to Gehenna of their own failures in life and rise once they are purged, that perhaps willfully siding with evil once you have known good is an 'unforgivable' hence uncleansable sin which keeps you burdened there forever, and it could be that it is also a place of our own madness and making.

Of course, herein lies the rub: and I won't tell you what you must or mustn't believe in or how you must or must not live -- I used to be ensnared in the scriptures in full, as well. Namely cause abusive family members screamed them at me when I was young and forced me to read things like enoch chapter 7 when I was very young to traumatize me. One can see the ink of the word that is written, or see the light of the meaning behind them -- one can take the words as 100% true at face value, or invaluable parables, which serve to save you from the confines of your own grip; suffice to say, is it that you don't know what to do in life that is keeping you back...or is it that you are bound by your own thoughts?

Not to say there is any shame in that, I lived my life chained to my own doubts and fears. But recently breaking through them, I hope to share the same things which helped me break through them :)

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. ~1 Peter 3:18-20

I definitely think you are misinterpreting those verses. The reference of 8 souls saved by water is talking about Noah, his wife, his 3 sons, and their 3 wives. As for verse 19, the language does leave it hard to interpret. It could literally mean prison, but I could see how it could be interpreted as hell.

Enoch 10: 14 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever.

I do believe that is what it was speaking of :) though, I wouldn't recommend reading enoch if you are of the faint of heart. It broke my faith in the whole of the bible...it was not the God I wanted to worship.

I do apologize though, I am not meaning to come against your views ^^ my intent was to help you.

The book of Enoch is not part of Protestant Canon, and I don't even think it's part of modern Catholic canon. I'm not positive on the second part.

Either way, if God is vengeful, he has every write to be. He's God. Even if He was a tyrant, which he's not, who's to argue with God? The key is that God is love, but has every write to be upset with disobedience. It's not like he commands us to hurt ourselves. Everything He wants for us is better than what we want for ourselves.

I fully agree that everything he wants for us is better than what we want for ourselves: which is exactly why I do not agree with some of the view of God from parts of the bible (whereas I agree with him from others.)

I just do not believe in a God of anger, and rather, I believe that the wrath of God is less personal and more karmatic...and I think it is his great mercy which saves us from being hit with it immediately before we had a chance to atone. It's the opposite, in my view, of the way that churches try to portray him. He's the good guy saving us from ourselves, not the angry guy casting people into hell.

It was once said "God is incapable of anger, malice, wrath or any bad thing. The only thing God thinks of, all the time, is pure and innocent and loving things." When we're angry then, if we are of him, I am sure it goes to him...and he tries to spare us of it even if it hurts him. The goal, I feel, is to want to not hurt him nor to condemn ourselves by our angers or hates.

God is clearly capable of anger and wrath. Just about every book of the Bible, from New to Old, discusses it. Adam and Eve suffered His wrath in Genesis, just as the evil do on Judgment day in Revleation.

"And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." ~Revelation 16:9

That entire chapter is about the effects of the wrath of God. There is every indication that He gets angry, and also every indication that He forgives us and delays it. But that doesn't mean that nobody ever suffers for their sins. They do. Constantly.

Sin is its own punishment...again, we will simply have to agree to disagree :)

Someone once said "if you have something that is tainted, you can have 99% goodness and 1% poison. It's the 1% that kills you." If the churches wanted to try to turn people from the truth and into them to gain money and followers, they only need to alter 1%. Again, I feel very strongly that the anger element is something, while I won't tell anyone else what to believe, that is not a part of the truth.

And one last addendum (because in trying to help you I came to even MORE goodness for myself, which I'd like to share :) )

I believe that unconditional love, truth, compassion, mercy and goodness IS the one true son of God. The "Word", a living word....and I believe that is why people speak in tongues. They said way back when, people spoke in different languages from all around the world. I believe that is because those qualities of goodness are found in every language -- to convey the meaning behind the message was the goodness itself.

There, sorry for yammering ^^;

I don't know if this will be helpful in any way... I don't believe in gods. I don't believe in heaven or hell, though the idea of the former makes me smile, as does rainbow bridge. I remember how my mum would speak of heaven when a pet or relative died, and how I (quietly) thought to myself none of it was actually true. I believe people only have this life, and that death is the end of the line. It's painful how some don't get more than only a few years. I never could take my own life, as that required my character dying before my physical presence would.

With regards to your question, many people wonder why they are alive, and what their purpose is. There's nobody who can tell you. My purpose in life is to figure out my purpose in life, in a way. I hope this path will affect that of others in a positive way. Sometimes we just have to endure to make it to better days. I set out to find 'home', which can be quite hard when the term lacks a proper definition. I think I found it in March, and brought it with me ever since. I hope you will, too.

If you want something to do, I guess I could suggest you to rethink your identity. Who you are, rather than who you're expected to be. What your values are, rather than what your values are expected to be. Perhaps prayer will help you, moreso if you don't experience it as a monologue. Then again, I don't know too much about religious experiences, so if I apologise if I'm babbling.