whats the meaning of life?

Answer 1

there is no meaning to life

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

I often ask this myself (usually in a humorous way). Most people don't have a useful answer. Some will say religion, but if the asker is not religious, that might not be much help. I used to think if I read enough that I would come to a deeper understanding of life. Actually, I found the opposite to be the case (for me). The more I read the more I came to feel that many of today's intellectuals think that life is fairly arbitrary and has no transcendental meaning. I still hope to come to some flash of insight and perhaps a deeper understanding of God's purpose in putting us here--yes, I do believe in God.

Until then, my own temporary answer--though not as sublime as true religious faith would be--is work. Despite jokes (e.g. www.dilbert.com) about bad jobs can be, surveys find that most people like their jobs. Satisfying work, that you find interesting and which might also help others, is about as meaningful as life gets for most people. Good luck in your quest

Answer 4

"As above, so below"

"Inside/Outside/Come around/Who's that?/Brown..."

My point? The meaning of life is reflected in classical music....it is recursive. It evolves into more elaborate forms, yes, but the basics are the same "From the bottom to the top/from the top to the bottom/".

Reality is unlimited. Life is not, it has its limits. This is an imbalance, and why life is recursive, repetitive and redundant too. ;) It doesn't just repeat itself, it rhymes, it elaborates, it comments, it annotates, footnotes, makes jokes and generally does all it can to *expand* the basics so that in terms of information, Life *fills the spaces* implicit in Reality.

Life seeks to be as complete and unlimited as Reality. If it didn't, we'd all remain compressed into particles of "I think, therefore I am." We wouldn't have bothered evolving much beyond that "bacterial life" of eat/grow/breed/die unless there was a point to becoming more, to being evolved and elaborated.

And the messed up part is: This isn't the best song in the world, this is just a Tribute. The *real* truth can't be talked about, words can only *approximate* the truth. Thoughts themselves are only the *shadow* of the truth.

The meaning of life is to live and *be* that meaning you are supposed to live your life *being*. Which goes back to the basics, which can't be touched, only inferred, and that just barely.

At the end of the day, after all our doing and thinking, we default back to being, if only to *be asleep*. ;) Being is the meaning of life. We have to *be* the meaning we are supposed to be, without knowing what we are supposed to be....well, at least that is where the desire to evolve and elaborate comes from, I *think*.

We spend all our lives just struggling, evolving, elaborating, to figure ourselves out, to know The Basic. And in the process, we become The Basic, and *lots more*.

Sorry if that is confusing, but you asked this big confusing question without even bothering to specify "meaning" or "life" even.

What did you expect? :P

Answer 5

Life has no "meaning", it only has a purpose; the purpose of life is to perpetuate itself.

Asking for the meaning of life is rather like asking "what's the meaning of a bucket?". A bucket has no intrinsic meaning, it only has a purpose. The human mind 'creates' the question because of the way it works, the mind desires patterns even when they aren't there. Draw three dots spread apart on a sheet of paper. What do you see? You see a triangle, even though there is no triangle, that's just your brain chemistry at work...

Answer 6

Your question assumes that life actually has meaning and that its not just an accident.

I think the meaning of life is whatever meaning you choose to give it. The meaning of life does not exist in an absolute sense.

Answer 7

The meaning of life is for God to get some humor out the stupid things humans do. And how we are such drama kings & queens.
I mean come on if you were god and had the whole universe you would think humans were full of too much complaints.

Answer 8

this is a very broad term " meaning of life " I think the best answer is what life would mean to you, it could be being there to help others , being there to depend on others, to enjoy the different pleasures of life going from eating a nice sandwich to the most erotic sexual relations , to the thrill of success , fame ....
all of the life meaning merge into one target , happiness , which depends on each individual's perspective of what would make him happy , once he finds that ,life has a meaning ...!!

Answer 9

Check out the dvd of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Afterwards you still may have no clue, but at least you were able to laugh about it.

Answer 10

the meaning of life is different for everyone, some people want to make life easier while other people want to just live quietly. there are billions of different answers to this one question so no one here can give you a definite answer for the meaning of your life

Answer 11

The meaning of life in all forms to my understanding is evolution...