what do you think is the meaning of EXISTENCE?

Question

Why do you thing people have to face trials and suffering during the course of thier life? What purpose does it all serve towards the end? Is it really worth it?

Answer 1

You have begun to question things. That is very good. My experience has been that by suffering disillusionment all through my life, those disillusionments have stripped away the false and half truths little by little. Every episode of disillusionment opened me up to what was really true in objective reality and stripped away what I thought was true. The process is painful. At the moment of disillusionment, there is hopelessness, confusion and despair, but each time you go through it you learn something true. I have to say that the fundamental normal expectations I have held about life were painfully ripped to shreds. In the end I came away knowing things, not just believing things. And as long as I live, I will keep moving toward what is true and essential in life until the day I die. We cannot be a true atheist until we start questioning our belief system. We cannot be a true Christian until we question our belief system. If we believe something, why do we believe that? Most honest atheists are mad at God. They see the suffering in the world, children dying of cancer and their hearts go out to them, furious at God for not intervening. In anger saying He doesn't exist, and believing it. And even if He does exist He is irrelevant, so for all intents and purposes He does not exist. Now a Christian is not a true Christian until he gets mad at God and throws his Bible across the room in great anger. So what does the Atheist and Christian share? We share the same anger that our legitimate expectations have not been met. We expect things the way they are supposed to be and they are not. We get mad at God, atheist and Christian together, and Muslim and Jew. The experience is universal. Once we get to this point, we have no more tolerance for B.S. We only want what is true.
But I also know that when we really know the truth, we run from it, because it requires the ultimate sacrifice: our very lives. Truth requires absolute commitment. It is dangerous proclaiming truth in a relativistic world. They kill you for it. So for the most part we settle in life for most of the truth, but not all of the truth, and stay in that comfortable, safe zone of quasi commitment that is no commitment. So guess what the doctor ordered to get us out of that? Yep, another serving of suffering and trouble. All that trouble and suffering is like a fire that purifies us. Don't like it, but there it is. You go through it enough and you don't want to be purified any more. I'm fine just the way I am, thank you. But still, in the end, the ultimate truth is God.

Answer 2

I think it's to "experience" all of the things that we "know" as part of the ultimate consciousness that encompasses everything. We "know" love, but to feel love, to experience the joy, the heartache, the anguish that can all really make us "know" love. Like a blind man knowing the words "blue sky" --- but actually seeing it, discovering it, feeling it, searching for the end of the sky, that's when he'll KNOW blue sky. And sometimes, cuz we can, we choose the suffering, the trials and tribulations. To realy know. Courage. Discouragement. All the things in between. All the things outside that.

To ask for a purpose, though, that's a little less relevant - it's more like, "why not" or "just cuz". It all comes back to the intention we had about our lives before we chose this life. And if it all feels helpless and hopeless, it's cuz we don't remember this truth. We are choosing it all. And sometimes we even chose to forget so that we'd really "know" suffering. It's the same reason why some people would just go into a horror movie, knowing they're gonna get the crap scared out of them. That's what they want to feel, know, experience. Some people just decide to live horror lives. The way some people live screwball comedies, love stories, black comedies or documentaries (that serve as lessons for others).

Answer 3

In a dictionarial sense i'm with Samael on this 1, yet Pshdsu & the guy below im have some interesting points,

4 me if yr askin Y is everything that we call life here i'd say 'Existence means 2 Learn'

Answer 4

Existance is nothing more than living without life. Life is about dreams, hope, love, pain, and everything else. Existance is an emotionless movement from one day to the next with no positive or negative events to add to your experience. I would rather die a horrible death than to be forced to just exist. People who are braindead and in a vegetative state exist while those who are conscious and capable of thought live.

Answer 5

The existence is the expression of supreme will – we can call it the will of God, or the divine concept. The cause of creation human beings is divine love. The origin of human life, in physical sense, however is sin.

All that we know, and believe, and wish, and hope, and desire, and think or imagine exists in existence. The existence also includes all we do not know but sense that we could know – the contemplation of non-existence paradoxically speaking also exists in existence, or in our entire perception of existence.

The fundamental law of existence is to exist, or to be; the opposite of which is – not to be. The existence within itself harbours nature, and nature life. Human life is distinguished from all other forms of life by our ability of reflective thought - consciousness.

Ideally, we should, like all living things, be in a state of perfect conformity to the laws of nature, or in complete harmony with the events by nature, but we are not. We, by virtue of our uniquely endowed ability of choice, can choose to opt out of the natural course. We can choose our own way into life, and things of live, which can brings disharmony and disorder. The remedy for which is deliberate restoration of justice and our willingness to accept.

We are supposed to live with an ability of choice and then make right decisions. This is what it means to be human. We are given a God like faculty, and an angel like duty that we must perform. We can influence the workings of the universe but we must do justice under all circumstances - we have the power, and the responsibility for using that power justly.

The purpose of all this in simple and humble words is to live justly. The purpose of life is the life itself. This sounds elliptical but this is how it should be perceived. We cannot understand existence, and even life fully, through questions; existence is large than all the knowledge that we can have. We cannot know existence without looking at it through life, our life – the life of choices, errors and retributions.

We cannot understand life though question either for all we have is in life, and all we have is life. Knowledge requires observation and observation a place out of the object of observation to acquire objective knowledge. We do not have such vantage point available to us that can give us knowledge in accordance with our rational understanding and reason. We are within life. We can feel life, but we cannot define life for some ultimate meanings. We must therefore regard life as an answer, not as a question, and try to understand the meanings of things in life.

Answer 6

If you or anyone else can find AND PROVE the meaning of existence you'll have the whole world (excluding those not retarded) beating on your door for your wisdom. All that can be said for the moment is that we "exist" and nothing more. But you, personally, can give meaning to your existence. And it would be as valid and rewarding as the meaning I give my own existence.
As to "suffering" that's just another, mostly random, part of existence. We all (don't we?) try to avoid it if we can. And finally don't LOOK FOR MEANING, but GIVE MEANING to your life while you still have it.

Answer 7

It si the effect of Karma. If u do good deeds u will get good effects. Similarly this conept applies to bad deeds. If we are suffering in this birth it is simply bcos we had done something woring in our last birth. If u do good deeds on this life. Ur life in ur next birth will be better. This is the result of Karmic reaction.

Answer 8

The meaning of existence....obviously...42...
but after that...probably chocolate and red wine

and you gotta suffer to appreciate the joy, love, peaceful resolve, "religious" experience, and the warm fuzzy glow that only red wine and chocolate can bring

Answer 9

Experience helps change the gene pool. Adapting it to environmental changes.

Answer 10

existense for me, hmmm, it's like your just existing because you have to exist..your earthly body is there..it is a must that u exist..and trials and sufferings are engridients for you to have a meaningful existence..