What's the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Care to expand your question? This is asked more than any other question on here and so I assume that you wouldn't just be ignorant to the fact that this has been beaten to death already and you're actually trying to ask something else. So, what is it you want to know?

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.

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 3

The meaning of life is whatever you make it to be. Most people spend entire lifetimes searching for a meaning when in fact the meaning is within themselves. Whether it be religious, hedonistic, or existentialist, you have to look within yourself and decide what you want your life to mean. You are the only one who can give your life meaning.

Answer 4

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Answer 6

Life is about experiencing the excitement, love, and happiness in this world. It's about helping those in need, understanding, observing and gaining knowledge, making this world a better place, making new discoveries, finding that one person you are deeply attracted to in everyway. Going through sorrow and the dark side of life, becoming deeper, more aware, and wiser. Using your experiences to help others. Making people feel happy that they are alive.

Answer 7

Through all the ages, philosophers have tried to answer this question. It can be very deep.

However, to me life is a game. A game consists of freedoms, barriers and purposes.

The common denominator of all living things is survival. Survival is understood to be the basic single thrust of life through time and space, energy and matter. Survival is subdivided into eight dynamics. There could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. They are motives or motivations.

-1 - urge toward existence as one's self
-2 - urge toward existence as a sexual activity (sex, family, children)
-3 - urge toward existence in groups of individuals
-4 - urge toward existence as mankind
-5 - urge toward existence of the animal kingdom
-6 - urge toward existence as the physical universe
-7 - urge toward existence as or of spirits
-8 - urge toward existence as infinity or the Supreme God

Living is having and following a basic purpose.

Since you asked, life can be further defined as:

a static, which yet has the power of controlling, animating, mobilizing, organizing and destroying matter, energy and space, and possibly even time

or

that which is posing and solving problems.

I wonder if you were really interested in what was the source of life. The personality, the beingness, the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. The creator of things, the energy-space production unit. The creator of considerations and postulates. That's a different question. That's you!

You can find answers in Scientology.

Answer 8

The fulfillment of purpose. But to discover the purpose for which we were created requires revelation. Few are willing to diligently seek, and even fewer would be willing to obey if their purpose were revealed to them. Thus the higher purpose is often relegated to a lower purpose.

Answer 9

Life is a lot of things to a lot of people. Make of it what you will. Make it good. And remember that you can always change. Always.

Answer 10

To lick as many strangers' faces as possible.