Is it watching commercials? Is it going to church every Sunday?
Or perhaps just closing your eyes and letting yourself be guided by
the kind and caring angels that know what is best for you? I am so confused. Could someone enlighten me?
2006-10-06 21:24:49 · 14 answers · asked by Birds 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
"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.
2006-10-08 13:07:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all of that. the meaning of life is to live. to really live and enjoy it. God put us on this earth in a original paradise, we are blessed with smell, touch, taste, and even sexual sensation something that god could have made just dull for the sole reason of reproduction. So, Honey just live! And enjoy what you can.
2006-10-07 04:34:34 · answer #2 · answered by pennie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crude answer but...
The meaning to life... is to find the meaning to everything.
That is to say, the journey towards seeking out the truth of not just life but all that is around us, is the purpose of living.
Or another answer I can give you is...there is no meaning to life...things do not need meaning to exist...it just is.
Two totally different answers, sorry.
2006-10-07 04:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by leikevy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Developement of inner strength with physical & spiritual ecstacy.It is applicable for you as well as for the universe.Prepare yourself foe new generation of human being,which will be domine /devil.Know yourself at
www.godish.homestead.com
2006-10-07 04:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by ibkhandel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BE HOLY WHEN THE TIME COMES TO PASS ON,BE A CLEAN SPIRIT WITHIN YOUR SOUL,LOVE ALL,FORGIVE ALL AND THE DEVIL ALSO .THEN YOU ARE FORGIVE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND DON'T LOOK BACK AT OR IN YOUR LIFE OF MEMORIES ,LOOK A HEAD OF BECOMING A HOLY PART OF THE WHOLE.EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE AND NOT FROM THE TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL NO MORE.YOU ARE FORGIVE AND ARE LOVED AND LIVE FOREVER
2006-10-07 04:35:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LIFE is what keeps u going (whatever it is)every second of a minute, every minute of an hour, every hour of a day, every day of a week, every week of a month, every month of a year, every year of decade, every decade of a century..and so on..and so forth.. otherwise, u are dead..
2006-10-07 04:32:04 · answer #6 · answered by ok 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really, you think anyone of thies people on here know? I mean, that is somthing your going to have to find out on your own.
2006-10-07 04:28:04 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Head 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be like, ' Does your life have meaning?'
2006-10-07 05:05:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get blazed, have fun before you die...live life as if it were your last, because if you didn't what would life be without livin it up...
2006-10-07 04:27:48 · answer #9 · answered by mista_toka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no inherent meaning. So we make our own meaning.
2006-10-07 04:29:21 · answer #10 · answered by red line 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is life.
2006-10-07 04:26:47 · answer #11 · answered by jaylee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋