What is the meaning of life then?

Answer 1

a film by monty python

Answer 2

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 3

The Meaning Of Life Is To Achieve Perfect Harmony In All Thing's,With A Member Of The Opposite Sex; And As With All Thing's Worth Having - It Doesn't Come Easy.

Answer 4

Objectively, there may be no personal "meaning of life" - everyone must seek their own purpose.

I personally find Hegel's view worthy of consideration. Hegel believed that all life is the means by which the Divine seeks to know itself, through manifestation. The Divine is not separate from the material world, but is in everything and everyone - all of life and creation and civilisation is like a mirror, through which God, or the Ineffable, seeks self-realisation and the development of self-consciousness. Or perhaps a better metaphor is a stage, where the Divine is the stage itself and every actor and prop as well.

The Divine is 'the absolutely true, that from which everything proceeds and into which everything returns, that upon which everything is dependent and apart from which nothing else has absolute, true independence.' - (Philosophy of Religion, p 368).

Answer 5

Pie and chips with mushy peas . Go easy on the salt . Apple and blackberry crumble with loads of sweet sticky custard . I think you will find that that is the meaning of life . If this answer does not satisfy you it means that you must have a second helping of the pudding , making sure you scrape every last dollop of custard onto your plate and be sure to lick the plate until it gleams . That is without doubt the meaning of life .

Answer 6

It has always fascinated me how the human condition causes the question, What is the meaning of life, to arise.
We never ask what is the meaning of our dogs life or our other animals.
It's always the human.
Perhaps there is no answer other than life is what you make it.
I have found however three things that I use to measure my life, perhaps they will help.
What is life without meaning?
What is life without purpose?
What is life without fulfillment?
Existence!

Answer 7

Life is beautiful and full of pain. It is everything we are and will never always be. It is rain fire, the scent of a tree. A mere speckle of time and combined times to seem eternal. A search, a quest an invitation to wisdom or foolishness. A teaching of a trillion lessons and decisions which mold the very existence of ourselves and the longtime extension of family upon families. Unanswered questions with bits of information. Our will his will...
All in all it is vibration

Answer 8

Life has no meaning. Only Death has meaning.

Answer 9

How you live life gives it meaning.

Answer 10

To raise good children, improve the world in some way, not hurt others along the way - that's the meaning of my life anyway.

Answer 11

To know what what you mean when you ask, "What is the meaning of life?"