what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

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.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

Answer 2

I personally think we are just... here. The only meaning to life is the meaning we make for it. Every person here has the ability to chose to be a recluse and contribute nothing to society, or to love one another.

For every person that believes there is no meaning of life has yet to find something that touches you in a way that you cannot control your emotions. I don't know why I'm here, but when I saw my son being delivered I felt like I had been held by the hands of god. That was the point that I realized that no religion is wrong because we are all the same. We all came from the same place, we all have the same biology, we all have hearts that pump the same blood. And we all have the same questions running through our mind.

With all of these constants, how are we all different? We aren't different, but the same biased and ethnocentric beliefs that generated themselves from being apart from each other as created such a large wedge between everyone that we don't take the time to understand each other well enough to realize that we all want better for ourselves and our children.

If you want to consider everyone ability to better the world as the meaning of life, I'd agree with you. But the fact that we all have free will makes everyones meaning to life different.

Answer 3

He's right with both of those. Life is each of every opposite, all meanings, so on one level it completely neutralizes itself. To each individual person life has it's own meaning, but I find that life means the most when you're experiencing joy. It's all that could have perceived meaning because we'll have no eternal physical impact to the universe from how It appears.

Answer 4

It's really not as deep as we like to think. The meaning of life is to live. Be grateful for even the smallest things we have, treat others the way we want to be treated(even when they don't) and live life to the fullest. And, if you so believe, trust and thank God in all matters.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

A good query? Every Human Being wants to know and understand the Philosophy behind the meaning of Life! Why are we here... what is the purpose of our living on Mother Earth... what is the real meaning of Life? The queries are numerous... there has got to be a justification for our living. What is the basis of existence of Life on planet Earth?


Before we indulge into knowing "the meaning of Life" we need to understand Life itself. How do we differentiate between a mortal (living being) and an immobile material (having no Life within)? For this we need to start from the beginning of the Cosmos itself... The time of the big bang!

At the time of the big bang when God, the Almighty Creator which is but the size of half a thumb explodes itself... all Atmans (Souls) get scattered all over the cosmos and in doing this they lose their pristine purity and as a ball coated with honey gathers dust while rolling... these Atmans (Souls) also get impregnated with impurities. This is the fundamental cause of Life... if these Atmans (Souls) had remained pure all the time... the need for Life in whole of the cosmos would not have arisen.


These Atmans (Souls) in their cosmic journey now need a body so that they can purify themselves and come back to their original pristine form. These Atmans (Souls) do not have the power to purify themselves without the aid of any external body. They need a body to work out its Karma and in the process the dross within the Atman soul shall get removed.


Let me explain this further but before that I need to explain the definition of God.


At the time of pralaya as we call it in Hinduism (the time of complete dissolution of the cosmos)... the total cosmos which consists of many universes dissolves back into its original pristine form... this is the form we know as God, the Almighty Creator! The size of the whole cosmos at this moment of time is half the size of a thumb, which is nothing else, but the collection of all purified Atmans (Souls) in the cosmos.

For purifying themselves why do the Atmans (Souls) need a body? This feature can be explained further by the example of mining.


If I need to extract one KG of pure gold (say an individual purified Atman in its pristine pure form) from a lump of hundred KG of gold ore then I need to pass the lump of hundred KG of gold ore through the requisite mining process. It is absolutely clear that this one KG of pure gold can not on its own separate itself out from the hundred KG of gold ore without the help of an external medium... it needs requisite machinery to remove the 99 KG of dross within the ore.

Similarly, the unpurified Atman the soul within cannot on its own remove the dross within... it needs an external medium... a body in order to come back to its original pristine form. And in the process... this so-called impure Atman is required to manifest a body, which consists of a long chain of manifestations... a total of 8.4 Million manifestations and a Life cycle of 96.4 Million earthly years... a long journey indeed! More on meaning of life here- http://www.godrealized.org/what_is_the_meaning_of_life.html

Answer 7

If Life had a fixed meaning then there would be no purpose in living through it!

Answer 8

"To be happy"

But happiness has so many levels.

Like after finishing your favorite dish, you feel happy for awhile.
But after kissing or hugging the one you love,....watching the birth of your child,....watch them grow,.....you'll feel happy for a "Half of Eternity".

So, does that means that you are free to do anything to be happy? Yes and No.... Like if you want to buy something, then you steal,...you'll feel happy for a day, and feel guilt for the rest of your life....Is that what you really want? Remember that what you have grown is what you get.

Answer 9

Easy - Try to be happy, try not to hurt anybody, hope to fall in love.

Answer 10

whose life?