What is the true meaning of life?

Answer 1

Learning
Independence
Friendship
Excellence

Answer 2

As a psychiatrist once said, life is very strange.It is so strange, that we often have to forget many things, otherwise , we will all go in-sane . Life is not only mean being alive , but the way we live , i.e the things that are important to us,our world leaders,our countries and people, cities religions, power and energy etc etc. Most important is religion , who we are , where we came from [ our ancestors] and where we are heading . That is why John3:16 is so important ,for we just do not die and disappear in -to the unknown ,making everything we achieve on Earth as use-less since we have to die and leave. Believe on John3:16 , give your life purpose and meaning, do not all dwell on the physical, think about the spiritual.

Answer 3

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

Answer 4

Why should life have a meaning?

Live it to the full and do good to other people. Enjoy friends and relationships you make. Mourn loved ones you lose. Be the best you can in every way.

Above all, experience the sheer joy of being alive - you're only on this earth one time!

Answer 5

To all those religious people I say

I think we should all waste our entire time on this planet contemplating if we will go on to another place afterwards.

I can't think of anything nicer than being in heaven for eternity making cream scones knitting and saying how much I like people who I actually can't stand.

Alternatively being a non sexist in paradise with those poor virgins who probably would rather be elsewhere than service disallusioned males doesn't really do it either.

Why not grow up and let the next generation enjoy themselves on earth without being so selfish as too only worry about having a second go yourself.

Answer 6

This is one of those questions we all try to answer at different times in our lives. But think about it - really think I mean. The answer is somewhere inside you. No one else can step in and tell you what you should care about, or whom you should love. Yes, there are common virutes in life: caring for friends and family, loving with an open heart, forgiveness, but personal meaning (when you dig deep and discover it) may take you away from one or more of these things, for example look at how driven the great artists and scientists are. So open yourself up and look inwards to answer your question. It's not out there to discover...

Answer 7

To make the most out of a random, *poof!* of a chance you had to exist on a rock called Earth.

Carl Sagan's last interview was on Nightline. I'll never forget what he said when he was asked "what message would you leave for the world, what would be the most important thing...?" (or something likewise. He said somehing like "if you leave the ground, you see your neighborhood, and where you live. As you get farther, you see the oceans covering the planet, go farther yet, and the planet is among other, you can't tell where your home is. Go far, farther yet and all you see is a pale blue dot in the middle of stars. Everything you ever loved is there. In that perspective, the most angriest wars seem pointless, politics seem petty, and what is most important is to conserve the delicate balance of nature in that pale blue dot..."

So I think we need to live with this perspective in mind, and see what is really most important for our lives and everyone, in front of that pale, blue dot...

Answer 8

The question "what is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

Answer 9

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Answer 11

To be true to yourself and those around you, by living your life to the best of your ability whether in success or failure.
We all experience Life, but how many of us can actually say we've lived it before we shuffle off this mortal coil?