My purpose

My purpose. 
 First I think I should try to define what I believe purpose is, a purpose is something a person is best at, that aids in their own life to make them feel complete and so they feel they are contributing but also something that helps others too. I don't believe finding a purpose is an easy task, in actuality I think it may be one of the hardest things as humans we try to do. 
 For myself I think this is an impossible question to answer at this point in my life. I am not sure what I am doing to help everyone around me, that's serves a purpose that lasts longer than a day or a week. But just because I don't believe I have one now does not mean that I don't believe I'll eventually have one. I think a true purpose comes later in life when you are not being treated as a kid or a child which seems to persist with adults no matter if you are the same size have the same things to say or for that matter have more intelligent things to say. So what I am trying to say is that a purpose is like wisdom, you have to earn it, and you cannot just have it instantly. 

God In 2010

What or who is god in 2010? As a person who is not religious I do not seek out god for problems I have or thank him for good things that happen to me, but if there is a god and he did create the earth I respect him deeply, and if I could, I would tell him he did a pretty good job.
           But what purpose does god have in a society that is slowly finding out how we were created or what our past looked like through science, and soon possibly we may find out all the secrets of the world and how we came to be? For the time being I believe god still holds a purpose, for people who could not bear the thought that people  are alone in the universe god provide a much needed pillar in which to lean and feel stable. For people who need to have a purpose in life god helps them too, what could be more worth while than serving a higher cause or being who at the end of your life will welcome you to paradise with open arms, or for that matter greet you with open arms and 72 virgins. It serves society a higher cause as well, if society had a bunch of people who were killing each other and robbing, and doing other crimes to others we would have a very serious problem, but in most religions, god says that doing all those crazy acts is bad and he will not greet you at the gates to paradise.
       So what is god? God is a way to make it from day to day, continue a family tradition, a higher being to please. He is our way of making life meaningful and letting the wonder of the world be explained if not through reason, through intelligent design.

An Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living

From what we have learned from Socrates, we know that an unexamined life is not worth living. By this Socrate means that if we live our lives without analyzing what is around us then we will not truly being living and life not worthing living is something truly sad. All people should examine their lives and not just go day to day without the concept of time or space even coming into the equation. As a society we should should always examine life, because what do we know is true and what do we know is not? And what about ourselves is true and what is not? the only way to answer this it to really reflect on ourselves and to try to realize what really lays behind what we see on a daily basis, why do we do the things we do? Why do others act the way they do in accordance to our actions? These are all questions to ask ourselves and if we do so we are no longer living an unexamined life and we live the way Socrates tried to teach people.