what is the meaning of life?

Question

I'm doing a research paper, so please include first and last name for citation purposes.

Answer 1

I do not give my name out but the meaning of life is very simple and only one word: "LOVE" anyone may be an uneducated person but this world is pretty universal and if everyone used this to some extent what a wonderful world it would be.

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 hard to put into words. It is allegorical and metaphorical. Life is like a dream I had a few months ago. I dreamt of a strange and illuminated universe, where huge monolithic blocks of cheese are floating in the void. Along the outside of these blocks are human-like faces, separated by far distances, such, that the faces are not aware of the others on their own block.

These faces are suffering from extreme isolation but occasionally, they have a chance for communication with other faces, when two blocks pass each other like ships in the night. The blocks can never collide however, since the blocks of cheese repel others of like material - when in close proximity. Due to these infrequent meetings, the faces have developed their own form of language over time.

The cheese universe is fraught with danger since there also exists gigantic rats, floating in the void. Occasionally these rats latch onto a block of cheese and begin feasting, eating away at the cheese. If a face is lucky enough, it can get the first bite though, biting into a rat appendage with such force that the rat is sent screaming back into the void from whence it came.

If not damaged too badly, the block of cheese can regenerate. Some of the faces are quite old and have become extremely intelligent over the eons. The very best cheese scientists are working on a way to escape their cheese confines and explore every aspect of their strange universe.

Answer 4

You should know that in mathmatics is was proven that no mathmatical system can prove itself through its own axioms. Many use philosophy to prove mathmatics which is a system entirely outside of math today yet math according to some historians was created by philosophy.

Humans are not math equations. You can not put an equals sign next to your head and get a result. "What is the meaning of life?"----------is just another mathmatical question. Life = ?

Life is a path that meanders. Some paths are short and others are longer. Mr. Gump says it is like a box of chocolates.

Some paths lead back to the same point over and over again. This is called depression for some and joy for others.

People say you can not choose which path your on. These same people make good bullies, communists, fascists, socialists, drug pushers, priests (some), politicians, pimps, rapists, and ministers(many). They try to force you to walk a certain path. And the people who walk their pats are called cowards or usefull idiots. (Useful idots was a word coined by the Russians about some of the people in the United States like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.)

Very few walk the path of rightousness and prosperity.

How do you know which path you are on? or If the path you are taking is the right one? or If someone else has chosen the path for you like the path given by the socialist? The only way is through patience and patient endurance. Be Still and Know! Meditate daily and you will know thyself and see for yourself the path you are on.
Matthew Cain

Answer 5

The meaning of Life is to come into your full personhood and beingness through reconnection and reconcilement with God, Who is Love. We are all born in a state of deficiency and disconnection from God. This is why every individual has an internal and inherent hunger to seek something Greater beyond the self. It is an attempt to fill the empty void and deficit inside, and to reaffirm our identity and beingness. However, being the skewed and degenerated beings that we are, we attempt to fulfill this in erroneous ways through "symbolic confusion". Hence, some get caught up in "self-seeking love", which is not True Love. Others go down the road of wreck and ruin via a "Cannibal Compulsion," attempting to satisfy the insatiable hunger orally through pedophilia and even homosexuality. A cannibal devours a person who exhibits an admirable trait that the cannibal venerates and has an internal lack of it within them. Thus, through symbolic confusion a radically unfulfilled person erroneously attempts to selfishly ingest through same-sex relations or even perturbed sexual behavior the missing attribute for their un-affirmed self.

Answer 6

This is a tough question with no real answer, and the best way for me to answer it, for myself, is to think about how I handle things when things get tough. I get through by asking myself "what lesson do I need to learn from this, and how will it effect my life lesson". I have come to the belief that I am here to learn life lessons, for me I have a few going...some I have figured out and others are still eluding me. For me, understanding that life has lessons I feel I have become a better person for taking the time to understand how all the pieces fit together for me, and everyone else. This makes me a more compassionate and understanding person. Hope it helps.

Michelle Smith

Answer 7

Life can be lived in different ways but can not be understood at all - neither the beginning, nor the end and not even the continuity in between. It is a fruit we eat without knowing where it came from and why we have to eat it and yet never willing to be deprived of it either.
Not much to help for your paper - but it is the toughest question in the world.

Answer 8

To every man an answer, though no man's answer can be the same as another's. Yet, without one man's question in all of life, then history remains undone.

We are born into the world speaking a language which we must forget so to communicate in this new world. We learn to crawl in it, to walk in it and eventually, run in it.

We question everything along the way so as to understand it.

We are taken care of at birth, and grow to take care of those whom we birth, and they in turn will do the same.

And they will question everything along the way.

But, whereever we were before we got here, is where we will return when we leave here.... and yet, when this system is come to an end, all who ever were, and all who ever are, will tell the story of how they have come to be and the decisions they have made along the way based on the answers to the questions they've learned.

The "story" they tell, is written within, one page at a time, one day at a time within themselves..... it is a reflection of the image of God..... we call "spirit"......


your sister,
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Answer 9

I’ve always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, “What truly is logic? Who decides reason?”

My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional – and back.

And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

I’m here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons.

Answer 10

The meaning of life, well its not about us
Its all about God. For he has a purpose for our life far
greater than we can ever dream of.
and the way to find out your purpose is to seek Jesus
learn about his love and grace

a life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump:
a God shaped life is a flourishing tree.
Proverbs 11-28

For blessed are those who trust in the lord ....
they are like trees planted along a riverbank, with
roots that reach deep into the water.
Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long
months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they go right on producing delicious fruit.

Jeremiah 17.7-8
Jesus love you