isn't it rediculous that we born and after 70 or 80 or less or more should be leave every thing?
isn't life a childish game?
2006-09-09 02:48:44 · 20 answers · asked by Christina 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"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.
2006-09-09 03:01:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is an echo of Ecclesiastes chapter 1.
2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
3 What does man gain from all his labor
at which he toils under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
This book ended with these verses:
13 Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil
The life lived without God and His purpose is futile.
2006-09-09 02:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a reason for everything, everything comes from God alone, lives by his power, and everything is for his glory.
You were planned for God's pleasure. God did not need to create you, but he chose to create you for his own enjoyment. you exist for his benefit, his glory, his purpose, and his delight. When you fully understand this truth, you will never again have a problem with feeling insignificant. It proves your worth. If you are that important to God, and he considers you valuable enough to keep with him for eternity, you bring pleasure to God like nothing else he has ever created.
In God's eyes the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat this life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.
Your time on earth is not the complete story of your life. You must wait until heaven for the rest of the chapters. It takes faith to live on earth as a foreigner.
2006-09-09 03:20:00 · answer #3 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short answer:
To know God and to make Him known.
Long answer:
To find Him, accept His mercy and grace, strive to become more like Him, become one of His kingdom of priests (Exodus 19:6), rule and reign with Him in the millennial kingdom (Rev 20:6), and then spend eternity with Him in unimaginable glory.
Life is a training ground for the next. Each trial and tribulation more conforms us to Christ as we ask for His wisdom and that His will be accomplished in our lives.
2006-09-09 03:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just have to find the purpose for being here. Everybody has a purpose - half the fun is finding out what that is & making a mark which will last beyond yourself. For some it is a financial legacy or a monument, for some it is addition to the social knowledge base, for others it is their children.
2006-09-09 02:51:28 · answer #5 · answered by Dave 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meaning of life is to live it.I don't think it is childish, there is some really interesting things to be learned here. Life is what you make of it.
2006-09-09 02:55:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
life on this plane of existance is a learning expierence for the soul and spirit. we are not a physical being having a spiritual learning but rather a spiritual being having a physical expierence. we are trying to learn what we can about various situations which occur in the time we exist.
2006-09-09 03:03:19 · answer #7 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love Love Love
2006-09-09 02:52:41 · answer #8 · answered by R.C.P. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I had trouble understanding your question but when I read the title of the question my first thought was if you want to know the meaning of life watch the Monty Pythons movie!
2006-09-09 02:53:08 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Kazz♥ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ang buhay parang gulong paikot-ikot lang.Parang ice cream natutunaw sa araw.If you can't understand, just enroll to a tagalog lesson or ask your doctor for the prescription.
2006-09-09 02:54:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't believe nobody said it....
42!!!
But seriously, to serve God and spread the Gospel to the world.
2006-09-09 05:42:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋