What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping others and other pleasurable 'feel good' pursuits.

Answer 2

Life has only the meaning you give it yourself. You can choose your own goals and values, your own ends and means. Basically, there are three sorts of alternative, and each has both positive and negative 'roads' to take.

One, you can live life selfishly. This, from a moral point of view, is negative - looking out at all times for 'number one'. But it need not be negative - not if you have a special ability or high degree of ability (say, in art) and you concentrate on developing that ability in a way that is 'selfish' in the short term but is likely to make a contribution to human good in the long term.

Two, you can invest yourself in others. This can range from simply concentrating on being a good parent, to being a dedicated contributor to some community or some organization, whether it be a political party, a commercial company, etc. But the negative side of this is that you might, in the latter part of your life, find that the group you have dedicated yourself to has not appreciated your contribution, or has changed negatively from what it was despite your efforts, and you might, when it is too late, regret not indulging yourself a little more than you did.

Thirdly, you can turn away from both self and others and, negatively, abandon any attempt to be a moral person, letting yourself be ruled by your emotions or appetites, to the cost of both yourself and those around you. Or, positively, become one of those intensely 'practical' people who 'get things done' in the purely physical sense (but are good for little else).

Of course, it is possible to combine elements of each of the three basic alternatives - though it probably isn't advisible, for sanity's sake, to combine both negative and positive roads.

Life is about choices. Your life is about your choices.

Answer 3

When I was in high school, a fellow student told me the following tale: There was a wealthy young man who spent decades looking for the meaning of life. At last, with the remains of his fortune, he ended up in the Himilayas, where he had heard a great guru living on a mountain peak could give him the answer he had been seeking. With the last of his strength, he climbed over a ledge, and there, sitting in the lotus position meditating, was the swami, dressed in safron robes, his hair and beard outlandishly long. He crawled up, and whispered "Oh wise one, I have come to ask you: what is the meaning of life?" The swami opened his eyes, blinked, and said in a high-pitched voice, "Life... is like a flowing stream." Closed his eyes again. The now old, exhausted, and broke seaker after absolutes thought about that, and became enraged. "You mean I spent my youth and fortune seeking after truth, and now all you can tell me is that...LIFE... IS LIKE A FLOWING STREAM?" The swami opened his eyes again, blinked, and said, "It is?" -------- So, as the sneaker ads say, "Just do it."

Answer 4

The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

Answer 5

It is a journey, we each live it differently and each choose our own ships to reach the port.
And i'm not sure i quiet understand what 42 is, but i believe the number should be 70.....that's what life stands for and what every living organism has water in there bodies.....even earth is 70 % water....
Good luck

Answer 6

Thanking God and living everyday to the fullest in that you will not have anything to regret tom marrow. Being able to walk, talk, see, hear, move, think, smell, and participate in daily activities.

At the end of the day if you are happy and you feel that God is happy, and you've made someone else happy, then you've had a good day.

Answer 7

Life to me is making some one happy, whether it's a smile or just an encouraging word. Life is what you make it. Life is the decisions you make that affect yourself and others around you.
Life is giving your heart to God and serving Him faithfully.
Life is beautiful, Life is love and compassion.

Answer 8

The meaning of life is to worship and obey God who has created us. This is only possible through His Son Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins.

Answer 9

So many are asking this question and nobody pays heed to answers. Shakespeare says it all: "Life is a dome of many coloured glass, full of sound and fury, signifying (meaning) nothing."

Answer 10

"There may not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think... that everyone... Everyone might have to find one on their own. A reason for being born... A reason that is okay to be alive... A reason to exist. The reason may be vague, unclear... And uncertain but as long as you're alive you have to keep searching for that reason," Tohru(Fruits Basket)
anime teaches u a lot!