What is the real meaning of life?

Question

Sometimes when I ask this questions.... people think a long while to answer it... sometimes, there's no answer... In my opinion....
there is NO meaning of life! ....why?
...cause, we are born... we live ...and we die? is that the meaning? or there's no point of it... we're just walking bones with flesh around this planet.... am i wrong? ...does someone think like me?? ...or what's your opinion ???

Answer 1

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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

You know those dates you see on headstones? The ones that show when that person was born, and when they died. Lets use a very short life for example, 2005 - 2006. Short indeed; as well as very upsetting. Because its known to alot of parents who lost a life they helped create. When you look at those dates, its not the numbers of the years that really matter. Its that little dash in between them.

Lets say that those dates were for little Tommy. Tommy was an infant who was born with a very low birth-weight. Doctors spent months keeping him in an incubator, monitoring his progress, running their tests to figure out why little Tommy couldn't keep any weight on. After awhile, doctors found out the reason why. He had a severe infection attacking the blood cells in his body. And though they had a cure, it was too late for him.

Tommy died at 8 months old. It truly is heart-crushing. But because of his bravness and strenght to keep on for as long has he could, those doctors were able to find a cure, saving many of infants and parents who were to suffer the same fate as Tommy did. The moral to this is to say, that Tommy's life...Tommy's dash, helped save many lives now and more to come. His life truly had a meaning.

The question you ask, the reason why people take a long while to answer is because everyone on this planet has their own meaning. Though it may not be to save millions of lives, you're still here for a purpose. You may be the light of someone else's life, become a teacher, or even tell someone who is having the worst day imaginable that everything is will be okay...we all are here for a reason.

I hope this helped shed some light and maybe some inspiration.

Answer 3

Personally, and perhaps slightly depressingly, I believe there isn't a meaning. If you don't believe in a godly creator, and you believe that life has been evolving through natural processes, then I suppose the main goal should be to reproduce and spread your genes. However, in terms of life having a 'meaning'... I don't think there is one. Meaning suggests that we were created (presumably by God) for a purpose. We're just the first animal on our planet that is finally clever enough to think that we must be special. If the question is what should you aim to do with your life however - I would say to be happy.

Answer 4

the meaning of life in my opinion is that so God could see if we deserve to be in Heaven or Hell? Think about it... the only reason we are earth is to see what happens in the after life.. unless u dont believe in it but thats another story..but yahh..

Answer 5

The meaning of life is to make healthy babies and help others with their babies. When planet earth has zillions and zillions of babies maybe some of them will travel to other parts of the galaxy and develop planets and make even more babies. Its all about baby making!

Answer 6

Live For Jesus that is the Best meaning for u r Life...
God created us for a Purpose to fulfill his will in our life..
Mat God Blesss ur life.....

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Answer 7

We are to find the truth.

it is out there but not always in plain sight.

We find it and pass it on to the next generation

Answer 8

Hey that's why people believe all the lies they can. My favorite religion is the one with the fat man. I know they'll believe just about anything. Next, scientology...dumbest religion ever.

Answer 9

Live life to the fullest.

Answer 10

"Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

And the other things on the face of the earth are created for man and that they may help him in prosecuting the end for which he is created.

From this it follows that man is to use them as much as they help him on to his end, and ought to rid himself of them so far as they hinder him as to it.

For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things in all that is allowed to the choice of our free will and is not prohibited to it; so that, on our part, we want not health rather than sickness, riches
rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor, long rather than short
life, and so in all the rest; desiring and choosing only what is most conducive for us to the end for which we are created."

Answer 11

life is meaning less