The generally accepted purpose most atheists give to their lives is that the purpose of one's life is to determine what that purpose shoild be and attempt to pursue it as a goal. At least, that is what I got out of reading Sartre and Camus.
Life is what you make it.
NOT what God makes it in advance, what YOU make it.
I think I will agree with bsb on this: there is nothing wrong with the test, since this part of the test is optional,and w=expoloring one's goals is not an unhealthy pursuit.
I find this less disturbing in the context given than the oral question given to graduates with business degrees:
"Where do you see yourself in ten years?"
You just can't say, "Sitting in your chair, you dumb dipwad", or worse, "Sitting in your boss's chair, creep.", which is doubtless a though that crosses many minds.
I never said more than what I wanted: a job teaching a subject I liked to students who wanted to learn it. College administration jobs never interested me in the least,and I never saw one as a step up, except perhaps in income.
As a department head in my university, I would have been required to call meaningless meetings in which nothing was accomplished, since department were given no authority to hire, fire or even have a dependable budget. In 32 years, I cannot say I ever attended a meeting where anything was accomplished that would not have been done without the meeting ever taking place.
