what is the meaning of life ?????????? is heaven real ???? PLEASE TELL ME YOUR OPINION
2006-10-12 08:47:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"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?
2006-10-12 13:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think heaven or hell are real. But if it is, I guess we are on both. How do we know if heaven is really a great place or if hell is really that bad? It could be the opposite. I don't think there is any real meaning of life. To me it's just a game that I can't put any cheat codes in, rewind, save, fast forward, pause, ect . Man how I wish I could do that. It's the best game I've ever played so far and I not losing. I'm not winning either, but either way I'm enjoying it. LOL. Life hurts huh?
GAMES RULE!
2006-10-12 08:52:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether religious or scientific many people can answer this question saying God did it, or evolution and some explosions did it. I am neither religious or scientific. We are here because by some freak accident we ended up on the only planet that has enough natural resources to sustain life. How exactly we got here... well we could be sciency and say well we evolved from micro-organisms. But then, where did they come from. After life I think it ends. Our bodies decompose and our "souls" fade away and escape through the hole in the ozone layer. I don't think anyone will answer this very well... Jenova put us here. We become the lifestream when we die.
2016-03-28 06:43:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that you should find your own way. Everyone believes different things, and religion/spirituality is just a way for people to be happier. I believe that there is no afterlife at all, and that once we die, we're dead. It may sound pessimistic, but it shouldn't. The meaning of life should be to be a good person and help people when you can. Live here and now, and quit preparing for what comes after death. Be proud of who you are, and realize that if this life is all we have, that's OK.
2006-10-12 08:52:49 · answer #4 · answered by ....... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the meaning of life is relationships. I believe there is a heaven, although I don't necessarily believe it is like what the bible describes. (I think the description of heaven in the bible is very "worldly" or materialistic.)
I believe we have a spirit that leaves our bodies when we die. The spirit lives on. After that I really don't know.
2006-10-12 08:51:45 · answer #5 · answered by Kelli 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is a life of meaning. When you have that , you will also have heaven.
2006-10-12 08:52:24 · answer #6 · answered by mindtelepathy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no 'meaning of life' - there is no answer because there is no question.
There is not a shred of evidence to suggest 'Heaven' exists. Just live in the real world and if your lucky enough to have enough to feed, clothe and house yourself with that's enough to be grateful for.
2006-10-12 08:50:16 · answer #7 · answered by warden14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is real. It says in the bible that Moses was taken to heaven by God. I believe that all people who die in Christ will be risen in the first Resurrection and taken to heaven in his second coming
2006-10-12 08:57:01 · answer #8 · answered by Ambegurl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colossians 1:16-For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Revelation 4:11-Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
We are here to give God(Jesus Christ) His glory and honor and to accept Christ that we would be in Heaven when we leave this world.
John 3:16-For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2006-10-12 09:01:44 · answer #9 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't know the meaning of life? We have the same purpose as God Himself.. That is to Love, and to be loved.. It is the highest level of human experience. I find that giving Love is easier that excepting it. Doing for others is a snap. But excepting Love makes me feel selfish. I am working on trying to be a good taker as will as a giver... Jim
2006-10-12 09:00:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is real.
The meaning of life is to give glory to the One Living God.
This is not an opinion. It is pure hard fact.
2006-10-12 08:48:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋