que: I have been brooding on this point from last 20 years,my friend agrees that no one knows what for we are born and what is our primary goal- somefriend has suggested that i will get my answer here - pl help,If you require any details to help answer this QUE / pl ask|||"Why are we here?" or "Why am I here?" is the question I'm getting from your post. It sounds like you are a religious person so it might have been better to post this question on the the religious side of Yahoo Answers. But since you posted here I'll try and give you something helpful. Religion has shrived to give people a purpose. Christianity came about during the Roman Empire when people were rich from conquest and once reaching the top of society had little to do that was meaningful. Than Jesus came around and started telling people about the Jewish God and stirred up quite a storm. Quite awhile after Jesus died Constantine became the Christian Roman Emperor and began converting his people to unite an empire falling apart. This gave the people a common purpose, 'serve God and you will be rewarded in the afterlife or on judgment day'. This common purpose may not have saved the empire, but it laid the groundwork for the religion of Christianity. Christianity to this day tells you to follow the teaching of the Bible because you will than go to Heaven. If this is to be believed than the Earth is little more than a testing ground for an increasingly large number of souls put here to test whether we can meet the criteria for Heaven or suffer eternal damnation. So, if you are a Christian than follow the bible, all you need to do is pick the right interpretation/denomination and hope your right... that your purpose. If you fall in line with the science based nut around here (myself included) than you accept there is no evidence we were put here for any other reason than mankind is REALLY good at surviving and breeding. That is what life does best. I doubt there will be any proof of any other kind of purpose unless God writes it out in the stars or something. To conclude, if you chose religion for your purpose than you get the most basic answer that any child would respond to "don't do bad things and you will get rewarded". If you subscribe to scientific reasoning than you come to accept there is either no answer or one cannot know the answer. And sorry for contrasting science and religion so much... the last thing I want to do is make it seem science is threatening religion in any way... we got enough church goers in the Religious section of Answers that wouldn't mind if we fell into a firery hole.|||Sorry, but I can't even understand the question. Pardon? Also, this forum is about space and astronomy, what you are asking sounds more like Theology or Psychology.|||I beleive that God gave us free will. I don't think He put us here for a specific destiny, but to make the best decisions we can. Remeber Christ's first 2 commandment, 1 To love God with all your heart and mind 2. To love our neighbors' as ourselves. If you can do that I think you have seved God.|||yeah, for some people its hard finding your purpose. i don't know why i am here|||No God!|||UMMMMM... Can you rephrase this question please? ***Check Your Grammar***|||Self-proclaimed religious and philosophy experts can answer this in the culture-religion section of yahoo answers.|||This is the Astronomy topic--- your question needs to be posted on a different topic.|||Yahoo!Answers is a good place to ask questions, but you need to be careful to categorize your question properly. Because your question contains the words "planet earth", the rather stupid computer that decides what category your question belongs in, put it in Astronomy and Space. The correct category for this type of question would be Religion and Spirituality, in the Society and Culture section. Please ask again in that category; you'll get much more satisfying answers there.|||God experiences his creation through us, what we do and what ever else happens on earth and wherever else through his creation,,perhaps like a gardener or farmer...the only difference from what i belive is that he is not an active gardener,,he is not planting and weeding ,,he set it in motion and like to watch things grow, bloom, get harvested and die as well as watch other thigns like the birds and butterflys that come through...another analogy could be that of a parent who allws their child to go out in the world, to date, fall in love and feel heartbreak,,or watch the child take the training wheels off for the first time,,god like to experience al of this,,, as far as our role in this is concerned, i belive that we are part of his creation, i believe in a soul and i believe that the mission of the soul is to grow and learn through a serise of different lives and incarnations on earth and on other planets with the ultimate goal of becoming part of god himself...we are part of god and god is part of us,,,we are an extension of god that has gone out into the creation and god experiences that creation through what we do, think, and feel,,,i imagine that our brains are very basic and primative and that we cannot "sense" the god within us,,maybe once in a while when we feel a certain something,,,like love or awe at a sunrise or great sadness or despair,,sometimes there is a sensationor a moment or a feeling that is bigger than us,,maybe that is a very slight glimpse of our connection to go and his connection to us,,,thats my 2 cents|||I understand how you feel. I too was frustrated many years, and searched many philosophies and self-help methods for the answer. At the point when I thought totally hopeless, I stumbled upon the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah. It answered all of my questions, and I have not looked back after a year of study. "If you listen with your heart to one famous question, I am sure that all of your doubts as to whether you should study Kabbalah will vanish without a trace. This question is a bitter and fair one, asked by all born on earth: "What is the meaning of my life?" -Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal Husalam), Introduction to Talmud Eser Sefirot Here are some links that you may find interesting: Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman on the need for purpose: http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah鈥?/a> A short video clip on perceiving reality: http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah鈥?/a> A selection of Free E-Books: http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/learning鈥?/a>|||As has been mentioned earlier on in this post, your question is mighty confusing my friend, but I think I get the general idea. I personally have never bothered with God, or religion, or in any way attacking those who do. My philosophy is, "I don't know, so I don't care" Nobody is ever going to know whether we float up to the sky after death or are simply worm food because neither religion nor science can ever proove either way. You can have some pretty interesting conversation on the subject, but I wouldn't waste my life worrying about it if I were you, just enjoy the short time you have here.....unlike the religious or atheist types who want to spend their lives fighting over it all.