Most of people on this forum, I believe, are far from any particular religion or even a belief system (even derived from religion) engagement. This includes the scientific system.

But still it is probably difficult to completely avoid being under the pressure of premises, axioms, strict guidelines, fundamental criteria, core and institive concepts or dogmas of the philosophy.

A philosphical system that one follows has typically a lot to do with one's life purposes, and probably the resulting life style - including a belief of having no life purposes at all.
In other words, philosophy puts a pressure on what we 'need' to do in our lives, i.e. what could be one's life purpose.
This is particularly obvious in religions and derived systems; some keep it hidden, not suggesting anything explicitly, but the result is typically the same, as the reality shows, like with the scientific system which gives 'birth' to atheists and the atheist philosophical system, and thus implicitly giving the 'ideas' about the life purposes.

Most of people on AD probably believe that we have a certain purpose(s) in life, possibly connected to soul and karma. Some may think that we are totally free.

What do you think?