What is your purpose in life?

Not at all

I guess I can kind of see how that joke could be amusing.
But if you are going to make jokes at Christians, I have heard better

life is a blank slate. It has no meaning until you make one yourself.

I'm a Catholic myself. I hope you find the answers you're looking for but step lightly when it comes to religion on this site.

Religion and politics are not allowed in the forums, but I believe that they are everywhere else

yeah I am too. I thought you werent one so I got kind of offended, but its all okay now.

Personally, I think that some of those jokes are pretty good, even though they laugh at what I believe in.
It is important to remember the verse that says that the truth will prevail.
We don't need to be defensive about it, because it is really not ours to defend, as if we made it. All truth is God's truth; He created it, and He upholds it. Anyone who has an issue with it has Him to deal with, not us. It is His job to take offense.
It is so easy to get into a mindset where we think that if we fail to defend what we believe well enough, it must be false and unproven, but this is not true. "Always be ready to give a defense" is telling us to defend our beliefs to people in order that they may see the truth, not in order to somehow make what we believe true.
So if someone doesn't want to hear, it usually isn't worth talking. Many people come in with a bias that is so strong that there is really no point in talking.

Another thing I often need to remind myself is that we do need to never work to win an argument. That is not our goal. We have been given so much, that we should be eager to share it with others, because we love them. Winning arguments is irrelevant, and unloving. If anyone wants to discuss, I discuss, but as soon as it starts to become an argument, the love has gone out of it. At that point, it changes from building and teaching, to tearing down.

The title of your post reminds me of some Deepak Chopra that I read. He said that we should be able to state the purpose of our lives in short verse. A couple of sentences at most.

To this I agree, it's not that hard people. Figure it out, you are smart enough to. That's the easy part, it gets hard when you have to live up to it.

and if you don't know what your goal is, how in the world do you expect to succeed??

  "That's the easy part, it gets hard when you have to live up to it".                                          And there's the rub.......the discipline to do what's right even when there's no reward in it for you.

See what I mean about other people not knowing what their purpose is??
All of us know where we came from, and where we are going, and therefore, what we need to do here to help others.

we have been given so much, we need to go out and let others know it so they can receive the same.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep. There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind? Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself. But behold, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad, and of pleasure, What use is it? I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the children of man. So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

It is true

The more you try to find meaning in this life the more you realise that all of this is meaningless in itself.

The world has no purpose, no meaning, and no real joy in and of itself

We enter naked, and with nothing, and we strive all of our lives to amass wealth, which doesn't bring is happiness, and then we die, and leave this world, naked as we came

So often I try to find meaning in life, and trick myself into thinking that stuff, or activities, or people, or popularity, or anything else, will really make me happy, but they never do.

I always need one more thing, and then I will be happy.

And then it comes, and it turns out that I actually need one more.

And one more.

And one more.

And I never reach the promised happiness.

There are tons of stories of people who reached the top, and got it all, and then committed suicide. Why? Because they finally realized that nothing in this universe can give lasting joy.

If you want joy, and true love, you have to look somewhere bigger than this universe.