Is there another purpose in life, apart from making money?

Breeding too, but it seems I am incapable of doing that either. :7

Hey, it had to be said. :spank:

Learning about people; therefore yourself. That about sums it up for me....

Making the world a better place for those who follow us.
You can start by not bitching so goddamn much.

Nice try though.

Every little bit of it.

And passing on to others what we learn.

Buffalo Chicken, as much Buffalo chicken as you can eat without getting flabby.

well, if you're in a Hemingway novel that's it anyway.

For me it's being there for my little girl, being creative while doing my job, and trying to make a difference. :D

Money makes the world go around, I learned that from Cabaret.

If you happen to be rich, and alone and you need a companion,
You can ring ting-a-ling for the maid.
If you happen to be rich and you find you are left by your lover,
Tho you moan and you groan quite a lot,
You can take it on the chin,
call a cab and begin to recover on your fourteen carat yacht.

Money makes the world go around,
the world go around, the world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
of that we both are sure.
(Raspberry) On being poor.

When you haven't any coal in the stove and you freeze in the winter
And you curse to the wind at your fate.
When you haven't any shoes on your feet and your coat's thin as paper
And you look thirty pounds underweight,
When you go to get a word of advice from the fat little pastor,
he will tell you to love evermore.
But when hunger comes to rap, rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat, at the window
See how love flies out the door.

to answer it seriously.

I feel that the purpose of life is to learn. As someone who believes in reincarnation, I believe that life is a big classroom. Some souls are in kindergarten, and some souls are here getting advanced degrees. (I honestly believe that the more advanced you are as a soul, the more likely you are to be a Democrat or another person on the left side of the political spectrum.)

Learn lessons and move on in your next life. Don't learn your lessons and you'll be taking the same courses during your next life also. To succeed, one must think big picture, which means thinking beyond only oneself and one's needs.

To me, it seems as though life is meaningless. I mean, what will it matter in 300 years what any of us do today? It won't, IMO.

Sorry. I've been drinking tonight and I'm in a depressed mood. :(

I believe that in our future lives we will all inherit the world that we make today. (Iit's not just our children who will inherit it.)

and I firmly believe that there are books, beach volleyball, pizza, jokes, hugs, etc to be enjoyed. There is also, perhaps, reproduction and building for the future.

"anyone alive would tell you that the difference between tomorrow and 20 years does matter. You might say that in 21 years that difference will not matter, but that is not true. First, because the influence of my life can extend beyond my death through the people who remember me and the posts or short stories I write in the next twenty years might still be either inspiring or discouraging people thousands of years from now.
In the next twenty years, theoretically I could have a child or two, raise that child who would then go on to have children and like one of my ancestors, Joseph Loomis who was born in 1590 and has millions of descendents alive today. As the Loomis family history says: "from a single man, established in Connecticut in 1639 has descended an army of sturdy men who contributed no mean share towards making good our Declaration of Independence in 1776, and in saving our country from disruption in 1861; who have been respectably represented in the ranks of educated men and in each of the three learned professions; ..."
Since I am descended from one of his daughters I would think that his female descendants made some important contributions as well, but it would not have happened if his life had been cut short."

There isn't really a single universal purpose to life other than gene survival. What the purpose of your personal life is you get to decide.

Being with people and places that you love.