What is the meaning of LIFE?

Question

Do we really have a purpose or are we just fooling ourselves with religion because we dont have answers to the COMPLEX questions of our existence?

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)
* ...to complete your list of life goals
* ...to find something to believe

Wisdom and knowledge

* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to find out the meaning of life
* ...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 find true love
* ...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)
* ...to determine a set of goals based on an individuals belief in the meaning of life and work towards the attainment of those objectives.
* ...a combination of any of the above.
* ...42

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?
* ...because nobody will ever love you.
* ...life may actually not exist, this is all a surreal dream.

But most importantly

* ...not to die.

Answer 2

Answer this: Who are you? What am I doing here?

Everyone has a purpose in life...why? Your parents brought you into this life and wish you the greatest days of your life. Now, it's not going to run smoothly through your years...you have to work to get a good life and have a fun life...you can't just sit around on the t.v. or computer, doing nothing.

Get active. Do sports, play music. Write stories, let your inner self out! Hang with friends, talk about other people, laugh!

Now, life isn't always good, correct? There's a lot of bad things, but a lot of good things. You have to keep the good and the bad balanced to have a good life. You can't have a bunch of good and a little bad; then ask yourself a question, why are you doing here?

My answer is: What is the meaning of life? To live, laugh, love.
Everyone has a purpose in life. You might not be the coolest person in the world and is a straight C student, but you have fun right?

Answer 3

Unless you are asking for the definition of life you haven’t asked a question that has a meaningful answer.
Even though the question "What is the meaning of life" is syntactically correct it is semantically meaningless.

That is to say that it has no more meaning than the sentence, 'Why does the number seven get hungry'. The number seven can not get hungry since hunger is an attribute that can only be ascribed to living things that have the ability to comprehend

Answer 4

let's just ignore the religion ! i don't know why we are here but i can imagine that all these world and space and the whole complicated things in it can not be there for no reason ! you know what i mean ? look at yourself . just look at your brain ! even nowadays with all the technology no one knows how it works . do you think this is goes for nothing ?? if you really want the goal you should feel it by your heart . see when you are doing something good for example help somebody. how do you feel ? it is good , isn't it ? so maybe it is the purpose and so many other things !!

Answer 5

The answer is 42.

But what is the question?

(The question... What is the representative number of the Father's perfection [7+], the Son's perfection [7+], and the Holy Spirit's perfection [7], as evidenced in both heaven and earth [x2]?

The answer to the question of the meaning of life is indeed 42.)

Seriously, though... such a question can go both ways... We do indeed have a purpose, and if it were not so, we would have no desire to own things, to create things, to love things, to show mercy, to forgive, to better ourselves.

To inverse your question... is it not possible a person is fooling themselves to pretend there is no God because they have not sought Him in the way where He would reveal Himself to them, and when He does choose to reveal Himself, they look away not wanting to see the truth?

Answer 6

The meaning of life is - circles. Everything is a circle - and life just - IS - there is no predetermined thought - it just is and evolves and it's evolution is based on what survives better than something else.

The only meaning or self-awareness or thought about things is US - and that is the real mystery - and when we know the answer to that, we will probably have the answer to everything and then there will be no need to search anymore and we will probably lose our survival instinct and become extinct - as I say - everything is about circles !

Answer 7

It is easier to believe that an all powerful being has predestined all that has, is and will happen rather than take responsibility for the things man has done. It is easier to blame "the devil" for a nature that is immoral and often inhumane than to admit that we do it of our own choosing. They have no answers just excuses, they have no reasons only promises that they cannot produce proof for. Heaven may or may not be, but they use the fear of death and hell to convert the Innocent into a life of servitude.

Answer 8

The question isn't complex, it just needs to be rearranged somewhat.

What is Life without meaning?

What is Life without purpose?

What is Life without fulfillment?

Existence.

Answer 9

Only fools fool themselves, Some have the promises of God however, that we can count on as well as His word which has proven itself accurate by prophesying the rise and fall of nation after nation, ruler after ruler, the coming of the messiah. And then all of it falling just perfectly as predicted. That's to much evidence to deny and enough to prove we have the truth.

Answer 10

42

Answer 11

We are all connected in a way that is hard to understand. We were brought on earth with life, because we are wanted to make the life of other people better. Are you with me so far? This is where it gets confusing. We have to help those people because they were born in a world where they can barely help themselves survive and are too busy with that to help others. Still, when we help those people, it makes us happy to see their faces become cheerful again.