Live. Learn. Love. ♥
2006-10-29 04:18:47
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answer #1
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answered by * Deep Thought * 4
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The latest measings of life: If I ask - who am I? The answer is nothing but myself. Nothing else and no one else will ever be able to describe who I am. I am the answer to myself I am what I am. Even if I accept this even then the question remains - who am I? This is the point, strange, perplexing but true. The question has an exact answer, but the question still remains – it is answered and yet has not been answered. For no sooner an answer is offered than it becomes a part of the question.
The meanings of life could be in the realisation of this fact – that life is in fact a form of a live question, a question that has no answer but an answer in itself. Nothing else can define life but life it self and then the question remains – what is life? Is it a mystery? Is it an endeavour, a struggle? Or is it a gift and blessing? Or may be life is all of these. What life is depends upon who we are.
In my personal view I can give a less generalised meaning of life. The meanings of my life keeping changing day by day: some days life is like torrential rain that fall on my head, and some days it feels like a blessing; sometimes it a bright day and some other day it like a perpetual night; someday life is close, and some other day it is no where to be found, I have to search for it. I never find a definitive and final answer to the question life. And as I keep searching I feel as if I am burning like a candle in a sphere of light – a gradual spreading of light of m awareness all around.
2006-10-30 09:43:29
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answer #2
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answered by Shahid 7
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Life has no meaning, it just IS
2006-10-29 13:35:37
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answer #3
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answered by kif 3
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I believe the meaning of life is this; To do whatever gives your life meaning, to follow your dreams, to live, love, learn, be happy or sad, to laugh, to cry, to be loved, to be accepted and to accept others for who they are inside not for what we see or perceive them to be from the outside. To question everything, just because someone says that it is one way, ask them why, until you are satisfied and/or convinced that it is.
The meaning of life is a seemingly endless search for answers, ideas, love, etc. that begins at birth and ends only when we have met our creator and be given all the knowledge there is.
2006-10-29 12:51:26
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answer #4
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answered by Brenda B 2
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The meaning of life is found in the author of life, God. First, because life cannot arise out of non-life(abiogenesis) as evolution would have you to believe. Second, Life only comes from life, and God is alive in Jesus Christ. Third, since man is an accident according to evolution, then naturalistic philosophy offers no hope of discovering the meaning of life. Thus, the only hope for finding meaning is in God, so read His love letter to you, the Bible. Start with the book of Romans, in particular chapters 1, 5, and 8.
2006-10-29 12:26:01
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answer #5
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answered by tigranvp2001 4
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What's the meaning of life?
There are short answers to this question, like 'love', 'happiness', 'to live truly', 'to truly live', 'life has no meaning beyond that which you give it' etc. If you can find a short answer that seems to answer your question, that is a good place to begin further reflection, if further reflection is needed, which depends how strongly you are wondering.
Then there are metaphysical answers to the question. These are the answers most favoured by philosophers and therefore thought most philosophical. Metaphysical answers are characterised by their embracing quality or comprehensiveness. Religions provide meaningfulness in the lives of many millions. Religions provide metaphysical answers, for instance about the nature of God (e.g. as Creator), the acts of God (e.g. giving us a Law or becoming a human himself) and our relationship with Him (e.g. He loves us, He has given us the sovereignty of free will and so He cannot have power in the world without except through mankind). Metaphysical answers in religion tend to blend with mythological answers, but modern Western philosophers tend not to subscribe to myth.
Philosophers have metaphysical answers of their own, for instance, that Philosophy herself is the meaning of life, or if it isn't, it certainly gives meaning to life. Another example: the meaning of life lies with the ever greater understanding of it. Or the meaning of life is being worked out in (or by) history. Or the meaning of life is hidden in the soul (hence psychotherapy).
All these ways of answering tend, perhaps, to make the questioner feel that the meaning of life is uncertain, and, therefore, that those who say there isn't any meaning, could be right in their judgement. Although how do we know what the criteria for the judgement of this question are?
I would venture that the meaning of life is different for different people. Therefore the meaning of life is not this or that but it depends who you are! The first question on the way then is: Who Am I? This question is not just an abstract question, but it leads to the discovery of meaning in life. This is not necessarily to say that the meaning of life is 'relative'. One of the best places to start to find an answer to the question of who I am, which directs me forcefully toward the meaning of life is the thought of death. I like Nietzsche's aphorism in the Gay Science, entitled, The Thought of Death. Or best of all, Tolstoy's novel, The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Confronting the question of death, through reading and imagining, brings us into a sense of the meaning of life. We often imagine dying is something that 'happens', like an event, at the end of life, but being mortal, such as we all are, means I am dying now — even I am as I write this and you as you read it. When you can think of death (and it is only modern Western culture that in the history of the world has avoided this thought) you know what is important and what it not; you know what is meaningful and what is not. Not because you know something more than you knew before, not because you are better informed by philosophy, but because you can SEE now what before you could not. The meaning of life is not a datum, it is something that must dawn upon us. The question, Who am I? posed in tandem with the thought of death clears our vision so that the meaning of life can be beheld.
2006-10-30 07:17:57
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answer #6
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answered by Krishna 6
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procreation.
Life is the meaning of life.
2006-11-01 08:09:28
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answer #7
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answered by hedzyhedzy 3
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Life is a journey, and it's supposed to be a purposeful journey.
Like Robert Byrne once said, "The purpose of life is a life of purpose".
Hope this helps, if not, oh well.
2006-10-29 12:59:06
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answer #8
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answered by Nose Lobes 2
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the meaning of life is "8"
2006-10-29 12:25:05
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answer #9
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answered by driver3260 1
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LIFE IS A BOOK U START READING IT WHEN U R BORN ALL THE PAGES U HAVE REED TILL NOW WAS UR PAST THE PAGE U R READING NOW IS UR PRESENT AND THE PAGES U WILL READ WILL BE UR FUTURE . BUT IN ANNY CASE THE BOOK IS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN AND U CANNOT CHANGE IT SO Y DON'T READ IT WITH A SMILE.
2006-10-29 12:32:14
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answer #10
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answered by rayan 1
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Life has no meaning.
But individuals can make thier lives more meaningful by thinking what they would most like to achieve and then trying to achieve it.
I don't think anyone has the answer.
2006-10-29 12:23:52
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answer #11
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answered by Anonymous
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