what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

How original dont think anyones asked that before,

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

This is my very simple version of the meaning of life. Please note that this is from a teenage view point.

The meaning of life is (in the simplest way possible [which granted could still take some time to really understand what i'm saying])

Live Your Life,
Not Your Friend's.

Remember,
People Are Fake,
Life's Not Too Great,
So Put Your Mask Back On And Dance,
Buddy,
Just Shut Up And Dance

Thinking Is A Great Hobby,
You Should Really Try It.

Idiocy Is But One Mere Step Above Death

Learn To Love,
Then Live,
Then Leave.

When They're Gone,
They're Gone,
Accept It.

Black (or white) Magic Rituals Never End Well
(this one really has no value other than being a semi-comedic break)

When people die,
don't bother asking what happens next,
no one but you can answer that

Don't You Dare,
Ever,
Tell Anyone,
That Their Life Is Over

Don't You Dare,
Ever,
Tell Anyone,
To Give Up.

Don't You Dare,
Ever,
Tell Anyone,
How To Live.

Answer 4

Istigkeit - wasn't that the word Meister Eckhart liked to use? "Is-ness." The Being of Platonic philosophy - except that Plato seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction of the Idea. He could never, poor fellow, have seen a bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light and all but quivering under the pressure of the significance with which they were charged; could never have perceived that what rose and iris and carnation so intensely signified was nothing more, and nothing less, than what they were - a transience that was yet eternal life, a perpetual perishing that was at the same time pure Being, a bundle of minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence.

Comment: in other words: "UM"

Answer 5

Life is the past , the present and the after life.The past , being references to reincarnations ; One, two, three, four we have been here once before: Life in the present is not meaningless, we do not just live for a few years , then fade away into nothing.Past lives, the present and life after death : all are inter woven . Life , then begins to have profund and deep meaning. Religion, for this reason have always taken the centre stage in all societies, for religion seeks to answer these deep mysteries of life. Remember always : John 3:16.

Answer 6

Life may be meaningless. We're born, we struggle, we die, we are forgotten? However, all may not be meaningless futility. We can DECIDE that the meaning and purpose of life is: to create one's own meaning and purpose for life.
PS: In the past, this was a central issue in "a university education". In those days, it was suggested that the purpose of life is to promote universal well-being.
But, nowadays, we're indoctrinated to believe that the purpose of life is to serve "the national interest" [whatever that really means!] As a result, probably, the daily news is dominated by conflicts and wars.

Answer 7

i think that's a redundant question. life isn't a thing that needs meaning the way socks, toilet paper or cerebral cancer need meaning.

if you asked me what life was 'about' i would say 'movement'
because in a chicken and egg situation that is what would have had to come first! (think about it!)

if you cornered me about what it means, i'd say life means living and living means meeting the criteria for a live organism.

I believe in God and that he put us here and left us to our own devices after creating the earth and leaving behind a rule book sending us his son, and offering help to those who might need it.

but if anyone tells me that life is supposed to mean something like algebra (no algebra is pointless actually isn't it? lol), like a wink you get down the high street (no that i get winks) or letters or hunger or other functional things.

'life' exists as a concept you can't touch it or breathe it or see it,
you can only see and describe living and that's what life is about
it's not supposed to 'mean' anything

that's what i think anyway (or else He would've said & he described what to do with living, not about life)

Answer 8

Main Entry: 1life
Pronunciation: 'lIf
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural lives /'lIvz/
Etymology: Middle English lif, from Old English lIf; akin to Old English libban to live -- more at LIVE
1 a : the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b : a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings c : an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
2 a : the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual b : one or more aspects of the process of living

Answer 9

Look upon this world thru the windows of your soul.
Hung with drifting clouds of shimmering gold.
Where you can float on a sunset so beautiful,rimmed with an endless sunrise,filled with the rays of a thousand suns,yet filled with the light as soft as the face of a sleeping child.It is a world without weight,where thought is perceived as a feeling,feeling is expressed as a colour,colour is heard as a vibrant sound,and the sound is music,and the music is filled with scent of wild flowers.It has no arms,yet embraces all eternity,it has no legs,yet stands astride the universe,it has no eyes yet sees into our hearts.One day the past,present,and future will become one,then you will be looking through the windows of your soul.

Answer 10

To understand the depth of sadness in this question that appears over and over again.
To understand the mind that just does not know.

To realise that the answer to this will never be found in knowledge.

To hold this question without seeking a quick answer.

To realise how eager the mind is to turn all existence into symbols, words and concepts, in the hopeless attempt to understand, that which is far beyond ideas.

Answer 11

King Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived and tried to find the answer to that question. He said, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." The really real way to have a purpose for your life is to live for Christ and His work. Jeremiah 29:11 says "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." If we bear this in mind and live for eternal things we will recieve a peace that passes all understanding (Phillipians 4:7).