What is the meaning of life? People tell me that life is all about having fun-what fun is it if we don't know

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

I use to tell my kids that before coming to earth we were with God. He asked everyday who wanted to go to the earth and live as a mortal man. we all would want our turn and whoever was chosen had to understand that once sent we would not remember our heavenly life. we had to accept the body we are given ,the family we given etc. With this life we must do the very best we can with to bring love and peace and not cause the shedding of blood. upon our death we would then remember why we were here and would have to face the Creator again and answer for our deeds while here. I told them that a life here must have been a great gift for the devil was so angry with God for creating such a creature as man and giving us so much, The main gift that God gives us over the fallen angels is the gift of forgiveness.We as man can be forgiven.I didn't say will be I said can be .Therefore that is the meaning of life in My family.To be here and make the Creator proud of what our hands send before us.

Answer 3

For me it constantly changes. As a younger man life was indeed about having fun. Now that I am a parent my life has new meaning. I think part of the whole "meaning" is the journey itself. Don't worry yourself over it though. Be happy, kind and generous- it will all work out- I promise!

Answer 4

Good. You have started the journey in right earnest by asking this question. You have to find the meaning of life in general and your life in particular. Keep asking. The answers start dawning at the appropriate time if your quest is sincere and you are willing to face the next question.

Answer 5

Jeremiah 29:11-14 (New Living Translation)

11For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13If you look for me in earnest, you will find me when you seek me. 14I will be found by you," says the LORD. "I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and bring you home again to your own land."

you were created with a purpose to live for Christ.
here is a book that is really helpful in understanding you purpose for living. " The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren see the link below.

Answer 6

Life has both Ups and Downs. It only matters how u cope with them. 4 me life is a game. When u choose the wrong path u regret and learn from it.When its a good path, just think that u have received rewards and go on. Remember... learn from mistakes of others .

Answer 7

Well, fighting injustice may be a good meaning of life. So here are some facts: Penis Clinton's Peyronie's Disease may be a result of forcing women to suck his penis (like he tried to do to Carolyn Moffet) and using force while sticking his penis at women (like he did to Juanita broadrick). Hitler's Peyronie's Disease, on the other hand, was a result of him trying to urinate into a mouth of a billygote during his childhood. Hitlery Clinton doesn't use deodorant-so is written in "The American Evita".

Answer 8

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Answer 9

The Meaning of Life is to exist. Nothing more than that.

The fun is proving you exist. How do you wish to prove your existance to other lives?

Answer 10

Maybe the meaning of life, is, whatever gives your life meaning.

But then again, maybe the meaning of life is so complicated, that we simple humans can not ever understand it. Let alone, appreciate it.

Answer 11

What I've learned is that the meaning of Life is Joy and the Sharing of It.

Happiness and fulfillment isn't attained by the quantity of what you get, but by how much you give. Think of the famous people on our planet--the happiest and most fulfilled aren't the takers, but the givers and sharers.