what is the true meaning of life?

Question

ok i know not many people can answer this question but i would really like to know. why was i put here. who made me..i dont think god because i can tell you NO ONE ON THIS PLANET CAN SAY YES GOD IS REAL. do they have proof??? NOOOOOO!!!!!! i dont know i would just like some one to tell me the real question....who, what, where, when,and why?

Answer 1

"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question:

Survival and temporal success

* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...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 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 gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to live
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...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 expand one's perception of the world
* ...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 understand creation

Ethical

* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land
* ...to become like God, or God-like
* ...to be rewarded for your deeds
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to express compassion
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment
* ...to work for justice and freedom

Religious and spiritual

* ...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
* ...to die and become a martyr
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
* ...to disprove the existence of a or all all gods

Other

* ...to achieve self-actualisation
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...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 participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
* ...to make the conformists' lives miserable (see non-conformism)
* ...to participate in the chain of 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)
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
* ...an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?" (see Sri Sri Ravi Shankar below)
* ...a combination of any of the above.

No purpose, and therefore...

* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...just a series of events
* ...just nature taking its course
* ...the wheel of time keeps on turning
* ...the cycle of life
* ...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
* ...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...who cares?

Answer 2

You can either accept the fact that our collective presence in the here and now is just the result of complicated random interactions between atoms, giving rise to life and later sentient life...

Or you could decide that your purpose is to find your own purpose.

I do not believe you will find a better answer than the one you find for yourself. And we are all on the same boat, although some leave the burden of purpose on some hidden agenda that some all-mighty creator has, and that we have to trust. And you know what? If you believe in a god or not changes nothing in the end. No one still ever knows why we're here.

This is clearly the one question only you can answer, for yourself. And if you do not find your calling, you can still enjoy life as a little bonus. Make the most of it.

Answer 3

Nobody knows the answer to this question. We are here for a very short time between two eternities, one before birth and one after death. We must be here for a reason and it is up to every one of us to find out what we are here for?
I believe that our human ability at learning and knowing stems from the similarities between two systems. There is a system in the universe and there is a system in the human brain and the coordination between those two systems is KNOWLEDGE. Most of the discoveries are unlocking secrets of nature and that is possible because our brains works on the same system as the universe around us. This points out to the possibility there is one creator who made both systems. Call It God if you wish but it is not this biblical God who seems more like an old angry man. But there is certainly an order in creation. For myself I try to be the best person I can be and learn as much as I can and be helpful and useful to my fellow humans of all race and beliefs. It is why I answer questions of this nature.

Answer 4

Young lady you're an evolutionary turning point, because of your actions in our reality ,a hundred thousand years from now, people will be bringing life to a planet in a new solar system.(multi-generational inner galactic space craft) starts when you help bring about a societal evolution. One world one government and a hand for all people; food clothing shelter education and medical. Humanities need for you is what caused you to be.

Answer 5

There are only two answers to this question:
1) We don't really have a purpose so you have to make you own purpose...do something significant to make a mark on this world.
2) God created us and our purpose here is to earn our way to heaven. (You say there is no proof of this...of course there is not proof...that would be TOO easy-DUH!)

Answer 6

The bottom line, the basic answer is: survive to reproduce. That is the meaning of life. You can argue about god all you want, you can argue about where it all started, where it will all end, etc. But what you are doing now is surviving to reproduce.

Answer 7

This question in some version gets asked about once per week.

Please look in the Resolved Questions.

There are some really good responses there.

;-)

Answer 8

I think that Carl Sagan said it best: "If you want your life to have significance, go out and do something significant." One significant thing that I do is to propound answers to questions on YQ&A, in the hope that someone may learn something. (Which is less likely in the Religion forum than in any of the others.)

Answer 9

The only way I could possibly help you with this is suggest that you visit the following URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_meaning_of_life

Answer 10

very easy

to sing never ending song of praise for god

ok if u really want to know the whole truth

u will have to read this book

http://www.echoesofenoch.com/Book%20page.htm

belive me if u dont read that book u might never find out the real
truth