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.
2006-11-20 09:29:31
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answer #1
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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It is the absence of death.
A different question might be how can we make life meaningful?
If you have something which you enjoy doing, and would like to do it every day, then find a way to do what you love and get paid for it.
If nothing else, give what you can to others, if only a smile.
This doesn't mean that you have to be Little Mary Sunshine all the time. It just means that a polite smile, a little please and thank you are the grease in the gears of civilization.
If you are not having fun, you're doing it wrong.
2006-11-18 18:21:50
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answer #2
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answered by roscoedeadbeat 7
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My opinion, Life is a a summation of what you do, at the end its resolved to give you a final result, how much good we do, how much bad we do, how many friends, how many true friends, how much love we gave, how much love we had, from time to time, we have to stop and see where are we! we are doing great if the good is more than the ..... (call it whatever you want)....
Though, we shall not forget God! who created us, if we follow what he says, we will realize the real meaning of life...
2006-11-18 18:21:48
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answered by Tito 2
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What is the purpose of your existence?
That my friend is a question only you can answer. What do you want / hope to accomplish or experience?
It's your journey, so have fun, challenge yourself and explore why you have the opportunity.
Your life will only ever become what you make it.
2006-11-18 18:48:07
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answer #4
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answered by Aves 2
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the meaning of life i'm not so sure of. but if your question is the purpose of life, then i have the answer.
the purpose of life is to make more life. think of life as an intention. it will use whatever is available to create itself. we may think that oxygen is needed for life. that's bullshit. life will create life that needs ammonium gas to breath. it just does it. the inanimate become animate because that's what life does. it changes dead things into living things. why it does it is what is not understood. but obviously, that is what is intended. everything comes to consciousness. awareness of it's surroundings. aware of it's own life. what do all living things do? they make more of themselves. from virus to humans we all do the same thing. make more. why? i don't know.
2006-11-18 18:39:03
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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life is a puzzle, the more u try to figure it out teh more it lures u to its mazes. Or its just a snowball that gets larger and larger everyday with every motion
2006-11-18 18:24:44
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answer #6
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answered by MiMi 2
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The true meaning to life is Jesus, and to worship Him. He is the true meaning. Why we are on earth is to have a relationship with God, and to help others have relationship with Him also.
2006-11-18 18:32:41
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answer #7
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answered by truthsayer777 2
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true meaning of life...my opinion love
2006-11-18 18:13:58
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answer #8
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answered by elis 2
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Life's all about risks.
2006-11-18 18:31:08
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answer #9
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answered by Lilah 3
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It's a magazine
2006-11-18 18:06:39
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answered by Anonymous
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