Do you believe we all have a purpose on our time on earth?

Do you believe we all have a special purpose on our time on earth? Are some of us given a path, maybe some of us are given devine talent? We are all different and all special. The purpose, the drive, the motivation beyond just your basic human needs. I mean we are all very different, none of us are exactly the same, so having a diversity might be good to fill out certain jobs in the world your suited for, maybe even put you on a carrer of purpose.
 
Or is it all bullshit, we are just floating on a rock and we are all trying to make the best of it. The whole purpose thing is just vageries of human perception? There is no devine talent, or purpose. Discuss. 
 
(also stay on topic, I won't reply to nonsense if I got some concept wrong or something I said gets taken out of my context. Happens once with someone else in every thread I made so I thought I mention that and if you need claification, i'll clairfy what I mean)

Just decomposing meatbags trying to make the best of our time here. I don't believe there's anything else.

I find it ironic that this is being posted on an internet video game forum.

To reproduce, I guess.

Oh, you silly humans and your search for purpose in everything you see. Can't you just accept the randomness that is existence? There's no hidden meaning behind all this bullshit; it's just there.

@HitmanAgent47: My answer is that humans will get extinct without reproduction, and as every species' ultimate goal is survival, I believe that is also our, and myself's ultimate purpose.

Hä, de' tro ja int.

So none of you feel like you have any sense of a purpose? Your just here to make a minium wage salary and to earn a degree into something that might not even get you a job? To exist? To be entertained to distract yourself with drugs? You don't see maybe you can make a carrer out of some of your talents. Also there are things you are actually very good at, better than others which may hint at a direction? 
 
I myself always thought one day I was going to be an artist or something, but that sort of didn't work due to a lack of skill. So I don't know about the term purpose anymore. Seems like in this economy now, we just sort of exist. But aren't some ppl businessmen or business women, others are better as employees at a certain field? Some ppl are actually making videogames, look at cliffy b. he doesn't have talent or a direction? Purpose to make games? All these ppl who makes games for a living has no purpose? They do this for a paycheck when other jobs can probally make more?

The only purpose we have is a collective one as an entire species: to survive.

So none of you feel like you have any sense of a purpose? Your just here to make a minium wage salary and to earn a degree into something that might not even get you a job? To exist? To be entertained to distract yourself with drugs? You don't see maybe you can make a carrer out of some of your talents. Also there are things you are actually very good at, better than others which may hint at a direction?   I myself always thought one day I was going to be an artist or something, but that sort of didn't work due to a lack of skill. So I don't know about the term purpose anymore. Seems like in this economy now, we just sort of exist. But aren't some ppl businessmen or business women, others are better as employees at a certain field? Some ppl are actually making videogames, look at cliffy b. he doesn't have talent or a direction? Purpose to make games? All these ppl who makes games for a living has no purpose? They do this for a paycheck when other jobs can probally make more?

I believe our purpose, if you want to call it that, is to continue with each generation until we as a species become god like beings and make a purpose for this senseless universe. It just seems too chaotic for my tastes. Hopefully our descendants can make it better rather than letting it fizzle out. Damn entropy...

If its to be a slave for others to benefit, than yes i have found my purpose.

I don't think we have a purpose... I think it's all random. We only look for a purpose because we are the most advanced species on this planet. We think too much about purpose and life when we can never 100% know the correct answer. And it frightens people to think that we have no purpose so they come up with stories to make everyone feel better about existence.

If you don't want to be misinterpreted, you should probably brush up on your English. You too frequently use words that you do not understand and pretentious constructions that are well beyond your current level. It may lessen the pseudo-intellectual self-indulgence you seem to be going for, but it would increase clarity.
 
There is no intrinsic purpose. While, in your simple way, you seem to take this as a resignation, it is not. Your false dichotomy is both desperate and transparent. You aren't good at art, so you try your hand at moping wank looking for encouragement or self-aggrandizing faux depth (as is obvious by your replies. 
 
It is precisely the absence of intrinsic meaning that makes life valuable. Self-determination of priorities and values is far greater than some dictate from on high. People often cling to bullshit like purpose or destiny because they are insecure and want to justify their current state. Deluding yourself into thinking that you're "meant" to be in a given situation absolves your responsibility and can convince you that it's just a stop-gap to your future grandeur. 
 
It's not often that I hear such ponderous onanism from people of worth; it's probably a coincidence that those who go on about destiny rarely consider themselves destined to mop the broken jar of Ragu from aisle 9.

I am an existentialist so I believe that we all make our own purpose in life.

@HitmanAgent47: No. No one on earth was put here to do anything, anything anyone ever got was through either hard work or chance. Let me outline this for you.

You stated Kobe Bryant's father played basketball. Well, many people's parents train their children to do what they did. In fact, long ago, that's how businesses were passed down, from father to son. Hell, in India, they have a caste system to it. But let me tell you one thing, Kobe and Tiger got to be professional athletes because of years and years of training and dedication to their goal. If either of them didn't want it even in the slightest, neither of them would be in the position now.

You spoke about Donald Trump always meant to be rich, but when you're a greedy thief that kicks businesses in the hole for profit, it's easy to keep getting rich. Also he's went bankrupt himself at least one time, so I don't think he had divine providence to be rich. Sources: http://www.marketing-ideas.org/donald-trump-bankruptcy-the-truth-about-trump-and-his-failures-1001 and http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-filed-bankruptcy-times/story?id=13419250

When the cards are down, we're just animals that had enough food and enough room to grow and develop reasoning. Dogs are starting to show deductive reasoning from just being around us for so long, so we're not the only type of animal on this planet to have that particular ability. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060300960.html

But, if you can't accept that logic, I don't know what to tell you.

@TobbRobb: but they had a purpose to be on earth, or found a purpose.

@drbendo: pwned

Yeah, sure.

I'm starting to think this thread doesn't have a purpose. 

Nope no special purpose. I have goals for life like "try to learn as much about everything as I can" but that's not the same thing. I suppose from a scientific standpoint it would be to survive and pass on my genes but I don't think that's what you meant.

@HitmanAgent47 said:

@OppressiveStink: I am not disagreeing with you. There seems to be some sort of drive right? Whether it's greed, passed down business ect. That drive can be called a purpose, maybe we all can find some sort of purpose. I am just trying to supply the other side of the arguement, I don't believe we have a purpose in life, we can try to find a purpose. I will continue to talk for the other side of the discussion to keep the discussion going, but I don't think we have a real purpose to be here.

please stop

@HitmanAgent47: You could argue greed is the only thing driving all of those things. Greed for money, greed for power, greed for adoration. Everything living greeds. Trees greed for more sun and water, cows greed for more corn and grass, dogs greed for more kibble and attention, humans greed for more... well... everything.

That greed is what keeps everything from just petering out. Survival instinct, probably.

Substitute "religious" for "ignorant" and you're right. (stereotyping)

I just thank my lucky stars I was born in the Information age, I know I wouldn't have known better but I think computers are the best damn things we've ever made next to medical advances.

Bin Ladin had a purpose. Dubya ran his purpose. Matt Rorie knows his purpose. Everybody have a purpose.

This thread though? Nah.

@HitmanAgent47 said:

The very moment I read "purpose" or "special" I simply sigh at the existence of religion and humanity's supposed need for it.

This is clearly not the kind of website to discuss these things.

Life is like a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

Most people simply exist; few life... No purpose.

@HitmanAgent47:

Donation is a greed for self-adoration or self-satisfaction or social standing, these things are important to humans too, being social animals. I'm not going to comment on Jesus because any proof of his existence and activities is a poorly amalgamated story of prior religious icons(IE: Horus) and anecdotal evidence. Ghandi did what he did for social standing and power and he took advantage of it too in terms of racism, religious proselytizing, and general perverted behavior (possibly a pedo): http://forum.stirpes.net/asia/24752-sex-antics-mohandas-gandhi-his-failures-pedophilia-adultery-incest-sexual-perversi.html (first post cites sources).

True apathy wouldn't allow you to live paycheck to paycheck. You'd sit around on someone else's dollar. Something made you get up and at least get that paycheck and it's most likely the innate sense of "want" every living creature has.

I believe there is no human smart enough to answer this question. Same with the question of the existence of god. No one is smart enough to know.

No.