The only meaning I can see in life is to live and reproduce.From what I see theres no more signifigance to my life than that of an ant.I would like to believe I posess intelligence for a reason but do I? Maybe evolution has some kind of goal in mind for us and isn't just totally random.Anyway if you're like minded and have a unique perspective on this matter I'd be very interested in hearing your opinion.
2006-08-31 22:37:43 · 14 answers · asked by Michael S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer to life, the universe, and everthing is....
...42
2006-08-31 22:40:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excluding the classical religious perspectives, then I would strongly agree with you.
I would take it further however.
If there is no divine existence then there can be no evil. No thing can be wrong because it is a meaningless concept among collections of matter.
This means that Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Sadaam Hussein are correct in their governance. It was therefore a fundamental error to oppose or interfere with them in order to protect that which need not be protected because matter remains matter regardless of form.
2006-09-01 00:29:50 · answer #2 · answered by OPM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is not one thing that we learn, but the fact that we are learning, and developing our methods of learning. One famous person said something to the effect that we are of two parts, the internal and the external world around us, and we strive to fit the balance between the two. That balance is as best determined by the society which truely supports us, and may be in conflict with some if not many of the things around us and about popular beliefs.
2006-08-31 22:47:55 · answer #3 · answered by too_live_forever 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asked over 10,500 times.
http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AvtZeGz9jA4vuNny.TU8i24ezKIX?p=meaning+of+life
The most common answer is "42" from Douglas Adams novel - Hitch hikers Guide to the Galaxy
2006-08-31 22:44:31 · answer #4 · answered by D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me God created us to have a family.The older I get the more family becomes the most important thing.Love and being loved is the answer.
2006-09-01 00:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you see a bridge, a building or an automobile, you automatically consider the person or company that constructed it. When you see a large ship, an airplane, a rocket, a satellite; you also think about how incredible it is. [You know by its design who the maker is.] When you see a super international airport, nuclear plant or an orbiting space station you have to be thoroughly impressed with the engineering dynamics that are involved. Yet, these are just things that are manufactured by human beings. So what about the human body with its massive and intricate control systems? Think about it.
Think about the brain: how it thinks, functions, analyzes, retrieves and stores information, as well as distinguishes and categorizes information in a millionth of a second, all of this constantly.
Think about the brain for a moment. (And don't forget the fact that you are using your brain to consider itself!) This is the brain that made the automobile, the rocket ships, the boats, and so on. Think about the brain and who made that!
Think about the heart. Think about how it pumps continuously for sixty or seventy years [taking in and discharging blood throughout the body] maintaining steady precision throughout the life of the person.
Think about the kidneys and the liver and the various functions they perform. The purifying instruments of the body that perform hundreds of chemical analyses simultaneously and also controls the level of toxicity in the content of the body. All of these are done automatically.
Think about your eyes, the human cameras, that adjust, focus, interpret, evaluate, discern color automatically, naturally receiving and adjusting to light and distance.
Think about it-Who created them? Who has mastered their design and function? Who plans and regulates their function? Human beings do this? No, of course not. What about this universe?
Think about this. This earth is one planet in our solar system, and our solar system is one [of possible many] solar systems. Our galaxy, The Milky Way, is one of the galaxies. There are ONE HUNDRED MILLION GALAXIES in the universe. They are all in order and they are all precise. They are not colliding with each other. They are not conflicting with on another. They are swimming along in an orbit that has been set for them. Did human beings set that into motion and are human beings maintaining that precision? No, of course not.
Think about the oceans, the fish, the insects, the birds, the plants, bacteria, and chemical elements that have not yet been discovered and cannot be detected even with the most sophisticated instruments. Yet each of them has a law that they follow. Did all of this synchronization, balance, harmony, variation, design, maintenance, operation and infinite numeration happen all by chance? Do these things function perfectly and perpetually also by chance? No, of course not. That would be totally illogical and foolish. In the least, it indicates that however it came to exist-it exists beyond the realm of human capability. We will all agree to that. The Being, The Almighty Power, God, The Creator who has the knowledge to design and proportion created all of this and is responsible for maintaining it. HE is the only one that deserves praise and gratitude.
If I were to give each one of you one hundred dollars for no reason, just for being here, you would at least say thank you. What about your eyes, your kidneys, your brain, your children, and your life: Who gave you all of that? Is He not worthy of praise and thanks? Is He not worthy of your worship and recognition?
My brothers and sisters, that in a nutshell, is the goal and purpose of this life. Allah said to us in the Holy Quran: "And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me." [Surah 51: Ayah 56] this is what the Almighty said.
Our purpose in this life is to recognize The Creator, to be grateful to Him, to worship Him, to surrender ourselves to Him and to obey the laws that He has determined for us. It means worship is our purpose in life. Whatever we do in the course of that worship, [i.e., the eating, the sleeping, the dressing, the working, the enjoying,] between birth and death is consequential and subject to His orders. But the main reason for our creation is worship. I don't think anyone who is analytical or scientific will have much of an argument with that purpose. They may have some other reason with themselves-but that is something they have to deal with between themselves and Almighty God.
2006-08-31 23:44:26 · answer #6 · answered by BeHappy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think anyone can honestly say they know the answer to this question.I have thoughts on the topic,but everyone would probably answer you differently.
2006-08-31 22:41:18 · answer #7 · answered by Celebrity girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THREE THEORIES SOMEHOW STRIKE A CHORD.
1. nIHILISM - LIFE IS FUTILE
2. ADVETIC TEHROY. WE ARE PART OF A COSMIC WHOLE CALLED 'GOD'. WE COME AND GET TRAPPED IN AN ILLUSIONARY WORLD OF 'MAYA JAAL', WHERE ALL EMOTIONS-LOVE, GREED ETC PLAY UPON US. WHEN WE DIE, WE REJOI THE WHOLE/GOD
3. IN SHANTARAM, THE BOOK, I WAS QUITE TAKEN UP BY THE THEORY OF 'ULTIMATE COMPLEXITY'. LIFE BECOMES INCREASINGLY EVOLVED AND COMPLES. AND WHEN LIFE REACHES ITS ULTIMATE COMPLEXITY, THAT COMPLEXITY IS GOD.
2006-08-31 22:46:45 · answer #8 · answered by branddxb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I answered this question already. it's to understand what you do. and of course we have to reproduce other wise there would be no human race left and we all go to heaven hahaha that's gonna be bore
2006-08-31 22:41:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe live and let live. Make the best of what you can.
2006-08-31 22:43:51 · answer #10 · answered by tensnut90_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋