what are your belifes on the meaning of life ?

Question

why are we born and what is the point of life?

Answer 1

"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:

Survival and temporal success

* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to die having succeeded in your purpose
* ...to live
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to expand one's perception of the world

Ethical

* ...to express compassion
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to work for justice and democracy

Religious, spiritual and esoteric

* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to become God, or God-like
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God

Other

* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...to die, or become a martyr
* ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to have fun
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...to participate in the chain events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
* ...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...(This is actually an extension of the point immediately above) There is no inherent meaning to life, existence, the universe, etc. They exist because they can. However, humans appear to inately give meaning, usually many, often conflicting, to what they are conscious of. So, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever they decide it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.

Answer 2

Truly I believe that is hidden from us, think of the power we would have if we knew this. Look at the past and you can see where it seem as some people just developed a system like a standard of living. They built society's by using forced labor, so intervention was at play as to the understanding of propaganda to mobilize civilization. For thousand's of generations that propaganda has been the use of gods to the extent that if there was a point of living it has long been forgotten if there ever was a point.
Remarkable that in today's seemingly overly sophisticated high tech world we live in; is no different that the times of the Romans and Egyptians. They too thought they had it all until they fell even their gods failed them, so I would say the meaning is nothing, but achieving your goals, like having good relationships, your happiness and satisfying your family with respect by placing them above all others and they the same towards you.

Answer 3

nicely. i don't have self assurance in a plan, or a creation for a undeniable reason. i've got self assurance that's my purely existence, and that that's substantial i make it nicely worth dwelling. it relatively is my thought for dwelling. while i develop right into a newborn i develop right into a Christian, so i could merely think of being severe high quality to human beings around me meant i could get to the subsequent point(purely a metaphor). And the 2012 ingredient isn't something, rather. each and every couple years a million/2 the international thinks existence's coming to an end. like the 300 and sixty 5 days 2 thousand. and various earlier that. it is going to proceed to take place till human beings mature slightly. a great potential won't come smash our international because of the fact our time is up. it relatively is now how the real international works.

Answer 4

Without God, life is meaningless. Without God there is no greater purpose for anybody and you end up reasorting to Nihilism. Anything in this life you think you want and dont get, you resent the fact you don't have it. Once you got what you thought would complete your life and make you happy, you find yourself back to square 1; trying to be happy.

God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them -Ecclesiastes 6:2

The only thing that fullfills your life is doing God's will, period.

Answer 5

Just to take a place in this huge universe. I really don't use to guess what's the reason we are alive for, but I'm grateful for all the blessings that I have: family, friends, senses and the opportunity to share all I think with the world.

Answer 6

This has to be the third time today that I am answering the same question. Life has no meaning. People assign their own meaning. We are put on this earth to procreate so that the human species survives. All life forms on this planet reproduce themselves in order to maintain a homeostasis on Earth.

In essence. all life forms (including us) are put on the Earth so that the planet itself will survive. Some people consider the Earth to be a living, breathing organism, and we are all part of it. I agree.

Answer 7

We're born as a result of chance and the actions of our ancestors. The meaning of life can be whatever you want it to be.

Answer 8

It all has to do with Gods plan for the Universe.

Answer 9

There is no reason or point to it outside of the obvious entertainment value to the creator and us people-watchers. :)

Answer 10

The only meaning in your life is that which you give it yourself.